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Quote from: kalos on Today at 04:55:27 AM so far, I found Window tabifier to do excellent job but the main drawback is that it does not tabify windows of a specific program automatically, I have to choose the windows and tabify them manually is there any solution to this? I don't know. When I tried the program it seems to have replaced my Firefox with a FoldForm tab that doesn't show anything. - Fake Name

Just a warning for Linux, there are certain lengths and illegal characters that Linux file managers can allow that the File Manager of XP can't. Not sure about Win7. I haven't found a solution for this except to switch to a LiveCD for those files. Highly annoying too as I don't know how to write a request for it as the errors are common errors except they work in Linux. As far as folder tree, I forgot how Win98 works but almost every free alternative has a tree but tabs are just far superior for accuracy. Also folder tree has gone a long away. In NexusFile, folder tree means a full depth screen of every folder and subfolders where as UltraExplorer has custom columns and DropStacks. You could check those out. - Fake Name

Not quite tabs but it's slightly more "detailed" than alt+tab. Tasky Allows Launchy to search window titles of currently open windows giving users a convenient way to switch between tasks. http://www.launchy.net/plugins... - Fake Name

http://www.reddit.com/r... http://arstechnica.com/te... Hmm...I guess title says it all. Some notable comments are discussions regarding elephant hunting by the GoDaddy CEO. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17... One commentor said: Quote Upon some basic investigation, the elephant hunting in the way it was done in the Youtube video appears to be done in favour of the villagers. The issue seems to be that the elephants will come in and crush the crops of the villagers, so it's a practice there to selectively cull an elephant, and this activity is open to visitors. I'm not suggesting this guy is not a douchebag of the highest order, but it does look like there's two sides that story in whether he was in the wrong to shoot the elephant. And at the same time, I guess Jobs and Gates are a bit more selective in their choice of phi... - Fake Name

Ok, I just recently thought of another angle to explain the notability of gamification which is by comparing it to game theory. I don't really understand game theory since I'm neither knowledgeable about stats, math nor of game programming. I also find the explanations for game theory very obscure. Often dealing with information you know versus information you don't know. In fact, I still don't know if it's a buzz word that people just picked up or it's a revolutionary concept in the sense that from an ignorant perspective, game theory comes off like statisticians simply looking for games to make their explanations seem more endearing both to their inherent desire to play games and to the general public. Nonetheless enough people talk about game theory that it's hard to dismiss it as just sugar coating especially on the side of analytics. The idea that inspired this post was of a Baldur's Gate mod called Learning through use. BG for those who don't know is a PC game that looks like ... - Fake Name

Nothing fancy or new but it still definitely caught me off guard because of the lack of context for why so and so trends occur. http://www.gamezebo.com/n... The key stuff are: Games that aren’t cross-platform - This is particularly weird because if you look at some of the quality mobile games that are exclusives, many of them are not that hard to port as far as design goes and the demand could easily be there considering the price of mobile games but for some reason or another, maybe from game developers wanting the prestige that comes from being a specific platform game, there's been many attempts at closing these opportunities. There are games that I've heard have a PC version but that they are only in Japanese. There are games that try to make a port even though they can barely push the mobile OS capabilities and end up creating an exclusive "worse game of the year" version of the ported series that in turn makes them seem more like exclusive... - Fake Name

I don't quite understand the problem but this is the general Google search for it: http://alternativeto.net/softwar... I've only used EyeDefender in the past and I prefer it to workrave but more for aesthetic reasons. Judging by the site, nothing has changed and I'm unfamiliar of what bugs it used to have. http://www.eterlab.com/eyedefe... - Fake Name

Great thread that reveals a little bit of the history of Android except I don't really understand what Meridian is. I read the link but the author talks about it being a platform. Wouldn't a port then lead to future compatibility problems much in the same way greasemonkey scripts keeps getting broken everytime a site updates?(Unless the author is also the maker of Meridian in which I take this comment back.) - Fake Name

Quote from: Renegade I just can't see the jump from "bundle" to "deception" or "malware". I don't see why not. Even someone like me who came to the internet late knows about toolbar, adware and spyware bundling. (P.S. I'm assuming you've read db9oh's posts against bundling before but if you haven't, err... that's kind of his perspective. He's talked about it a lot more in a DC thread elsewhere. The one about -ware something.) - Fake Name

The problem with verification is kind of like open source. How often do people really check the source? Only here it's not just checking up on the sources, you have to check up on the person's total living expenses to be really sure they are not in debt. It's not like that's enough. You still have to be sure about their motivation to continue the service. Pinboard has earned it's userbase' trust because of it's longevity that this is link is an added bonus but applied to all of startups/small business, you're still not immune to any startup suddenly selling out or hiding something in the closet. Basically, it's a trees for the forest thing. Just because the IM niche is most well known for doing this doesn't mean someone can't do this for startups. It's not like the service is aiming specifically at DC'ers either. It's a general service that happens to have a blog post linked to DC. I'm not really contending about your admiration for the action. I'm simply giving a warning that this... - Fake Name

Well that's the thing that makes it efficient. You never know whether the statistic is true or not. The best marketing tricks don't involve creating lies. They involve tweaking truths. Unless you're a major entity like a government, transparency comes when a crowd of doubters asks for the information and you give it to them. ...or reverse: Let's say a flaw was found in your service that could provide a vulnerability and instead of just disclosing it later and then letting your fanbase say transparency, you go beyond what you should reveal to instigate that trust across a board of skeptics or even zero skeptics. (Basically do the opposite of marketing, risk ridicule when things go bad) Everything else could be there for a reason. But again, I emphasize that my post shouldn't be perceived as anything but a general warning. Pinboard is a well reputed social bookmarking service if not the only well reputed social bookmarking service that is completely reputable when it comes to longe... - Fake Name

That's not really that rare. Many internet marketing blogs did that. (Some internet marketing scams continue to do that) It's a linkbait and trustbait tactic. (or envybait... meh... I don't know the official term but it's basically a way to send the message to people that your service is trustworthy enough to shell out cash for) Pinboard is rare only in that they're offering an actual service rather than a scam but the marketing tactic by itself is common especially when it comes to paid services. There's nothing "real" about it though. I apologize if I come off sounding antagonistic. I'm no more doing what IainB was doing in the CNET Downloader topic which is just to show and warn of obvious marketing schemes that I know of. Pinboard is not any way wrong for doing this, it's just that it shouldn't be used as a metric for "being real". - Fake Name

Source: http://www.sherdog.net/fo... Cherry picked pics: (these are all different people/blanket is an inside MMA joke) [attach=1] [attach=2] [attach=3] [attach=4] [attach=5] [attach=6] - Fake Name

I think the problem with that lesson is humanity is inherently lazy/busy and payment is not always based on rationality. (I apologize if I kind of am repeating myself) As an author, they can change from whim to whim. It's like a woman saying she's not a hooker but then offered a huge sum of money. Will they or won't they become a hooker? Transparency is not that rewarding also. If you're a small service, no one cares. If you're a popular service, then the subject is moot as leverage for donations becomes your side. Neither really teaches about sustainability. As a user, people can't expect to be taught from a simple advise. There's also so many free services out there that it's impossible to not get hooked by the excitement of a new service. It doesn't help that neither articles nor forums often write about a long term sustainability plan that a viewer can just read and satisfy themselves with. It's also unfair to the users as they don't all know how to work software backup commands... - Fake Name

I think the fruit would be good news. If CNET becomes popular, developers would have an OpenCandy alternative that doesn't have negative stigma attached to it. If CNET does not, it gives opportunities for new websites to work on alternative download installers as it brings the buzz back on download managers. Example, I've always like the FileHippo Download Installer but since you can't annotate old versions, sometimes you don't remember which exact old version you really preferred and you end up not being able to share that with a community. The two examples that come to mind are Opera and utorrent. Two updates that make the program worse (Opera in terms of many tab handling) and (utorrent in terms of interface) and unless you read up on past comments and then take them into memory, you won't know which old version to install for your needs at a surface's glance. - Fake Name

GrabMyBooks have been mentioned once here before but since there's no extensive review and many don't seem to care for it despite certain prominent blogs having written about it, I thought for the sake of those who might care I'd write something less about introducing the service and more from the perspective of someone who actually gave some time to using it who is at the same time new if not ignorant and disinterested of epubs in general. [attach=1] For this reason, I'm not going to opt for the mini-review template. I feel considering the unpopularity of GrabMyBook (based on web content written for it, not actual users) relative to it's utility (which I consider to be extremely high) then traditional reviewing won't work. Of course I don't expect my writing style to be appealing but hopefully it can provide something alternative for those on the fence or don't realize that this is exactly what t... - Fake Name

Just to throw a curveball, I think the mice besides the elephant is not only the question of whether someone can carry the torch but whether open source can synch itself with the necessity of the volunteers. Sustainability is good IF it attracts enough buzz which in turn attracts enough supporters but I think long term, we are more apt to see people strive to learn and aim to support something they perceive as necessity rather than sustainable. And the one good thing about consumerism is that it tricks the mind into making non-necessary concepts into emotional necessities. That's why one is more likely to spot and acquire emulators for old games and consoles than they are to acquire old ports of old non-gaming programs. We could even extend it to mods and add-ons. Barring browsers, most (even those with plugin supported programs) lose to the buzz and sweet taste of a new user interface program where as games can last for longer generations with the existence of mods. Of course at t... - Fake Name

Here's another quote to show how different the two situations are: Quote His mom has been sick since he was fighting in PRIDE, and it is not the first time he uses her condition as a way to excuse something (back then it cuased his poor performances), so now, suddendly when he is asked for a random test, his mom's condition worsens again? Also the blood samples he submitted were taken in private so... picture me skeptic! So basically one is an alleged steroid scandal involving taking advantage of a sickly mother. The other is basically a trade problem with Chris Paul. Guess which one involves more regular people. Guess which one motivates more rich people to bypass the rule. - Fake Name

First link works fine but the second link made my Opera crash. (I don't know about websites though, just adding to what others have said.) - Fake Name

Quote from: Renegade on December 13, 2011, 11:56:55 PM Quote from: Paul Keith on December 13, 2011, 11:32:25 PM Quote from: Renegade on December 13, 2011, 10:13:57 PM Easier said than done for most people. This may be another thing that is lost without context. These players are rich. Ooops. I thought the comment was referring to regular people. To be fair, I was also aiming it at regular people who live in a free market society but since the free market is hijacked/considered a delusion by some, it really depends on which particular scenario wraith meant since my reply was in reply to his reply. At the same time, this topic is about Chris Paul so yeah, I wasn't really referring to regular people at least not primarily. - Fake Name

Quote from: Renegade on December 13, 2011, 10:13:57 PM Easier said than done for most people. This may be another thing that is lost without context. These players are rich. Wikipedia alone: Quote Off the court, Paul is a notable ten-pin bowler and a sponsored spokesperson for the United States Bowling Congress (USBC). He has participated in numerous celebrity and youth bowling events as the head of the CP3 Foundation to benefit programs in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and charities in Winston-Salem. Quote With his contract expiring at the end of the 2011–12 season, the Hornets had been working on trading Paul, rather than let him leave in the summer of 2012 and get no players in return.[32] On the afternoon of December 8, 2011, the day before the 2011 NBA lockout ended and players could move between teams, the Hornets, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets agreed to a trade that would send Paul to ... - Fake Name

Actually I think it is more rude to accuse someone of being rude when they say it's none of your business when it comes to the private sector but I think you have to be exposed more to both sides' extreme to understand this. In fact it's a micro-analogy to the veto position, internet forum attitude style. (Popular MMA forums are notorious for this. People who blindly support the alternative bad companies end up producing people who become rude to anyone who supports the alternative companies besides the mainstream UFC) Someone brings up the fairness issue without context. (For example the NBA attempted a fairness rule which is what caused the unfairness in their current ruling because their fairness rule wasn't really that good. It was moral intervention with no context except to limit all teams from creating super teams via tax and a bunch of cap issues that even today the fans can't really decide whether it's good or bad or simply flawed and needs to be tweaked.) Anytime you try t... - Fake Name

Speaking of insane coincidences, this is the real sports event you should all be comparing with as far as guaranteed profits go: http://www.bloodyelbow.co...e-... Notice the key word "conditional" license? This just occured in a UStream a while ago. Fighter dodged a surprise steroid test by leaving the States to take care of his sick mother two days later. NSAC stream happens where they talked to Fighter and the fighter basically only have two reasons: 1) He had incompetent managers/assistants who had never dealt with steroid testing procedures before hence the result of a wrong sample days later. 2) He had not received the news of the surprise test before he acquired a ticket. In that stream, the NSAC people basically admitted that they have no idea when the fighter changed from LHW to HW. They questioned whether his scar came from steroid use. They talked about putting e-mail in all their forms. Bas... - Fake Name

via MetaFlter Direct link: http://bestof2011.longform.org/ http://bestof2011.longform.org/20... My preference: Quote This was in April 2006, and Mark Zuckerberg gave Hammerbacher—one of Facebook's first 100 employees—the lofty title of research scientist and put him to work analyzing how people used the social networking service. Specifically, he was given the assignment of uncovering why Facebook took off at some universities and flopped at others. The company also wanted to track differences in behavior between high-school-age kids and older, drunker college students. "I was there to answer these high-level questions, and they really didn't have any tools to do that yet," he says. #8 This tech bubble is different tags:   Zynga Facebook Microsoft WebTV Apple Iphone shopping cult... - Fake Name

Just to lighten up the mood (plus it's a topic that I would have created a thread for anyway) http://gigaom.com/cleante... Quote There are far more cell phones in India than there is access to sanitary toilets — about 600 million out of 1.2 billion Indians have ready access to a clean bathroom, while 800 million Indians have cell phones. That rather shocking stat, was an a-ha moment for Swapnil Chaturvedi, an entrepreneur who has been working on sanitation projects in India’s slums and who was looking for an idea to help him reach many more millions of Indians with clean toilets. Chaturvedi’s idea is the awesomely-named Poop Rewards, a startup that creates an incentive program using cell phone talk minutes and other prizes to convince Indians that don’t have easy access to toilets to use designated public toi... - Fake Name

umm... just out of curiosity, why the buttons? Quote but it seems that you have not yet been able to provide sufficiently coherent definition or fact to be able to establish whether the term "curation" and its derivatives are anything more than undefined hyped-up BS buzzwords that an implied 97% of scientists bloggers believe to be true.(A logical fallacy - an appeal to the consensus.) At some point, proof I think is left towards progress. I think I've exhausted so many words and details, details that were ignored in favor of a simple sentence or a cursory overlapping glance, that it's kind of like trying to tell a person that the internet CAN exist even if it hasn't existed. For me the proof is in the pudding though that, at least for this topic, you're not asking to be convinced while at the same time assuming I was trying to convince you rather than have a dialogue and hence adopting a stance where you act as if I was trying to simply convince you. It's really disappoin... - Fake Name

Quote from: Renegade on Today at 03:56:19 AM Ok, here's the thing that I still have trouble with... to clarify... Suppose McDonald's decides to create a McDonald's organization and people can join. Now, those are the only people that can enjoy the wonderful privilege of flipping burgers. And they can be compensated for their time at the wonderful rate of $1.00 per day. (Or whatever --- I chose an insane number because it's essentially irrelevant.) Now, since it's an organization like the NBA or a church or whatever, don't they get the same leeway? Seems like too much of a scam and way far outside the spirit of labour laws. But at the core, they are the same thing... I just can't get past the rule of law. No, the core is vastly different because of the size. The rule of law accounts for the CIA doesn't it? It's the same here only for consumers. Size has a lot to do with the complexity. Context also. Far as size goes, people within an organi... - Fake Name

Quote from: Renegade on December 10, 2011, 06:35:18 PM Here's the thing... Professional sports operate outside of the law in many ways. Suppose Stephen and I both work for IBM. We then decide to bet on whether IBM or HP will have a better fiscal 2011 EBIT. This is not illegal. If we were in the NBA or NFL, it would be. How the hell is that "rule of law"? Now, suppose Stephen decides to go work for Oracle and I decide to go work for HP. And some other organization blocks me from working for HP when HP clearly wants to hire me. WTF? Seriously? Stephen has a point there. This appeal towards the law is IMO the very same catalyst for why the law is also broken/has been broken by more troublesome and confusing laws. To uphold just laws, it's not about which entity operates outside of it but on what those actions entail. The problem with this scenario is it's just not that applicable of an analogy. It's seen by your counter analogies and it's seen by the o... - Fake Name

I think judging Scoop.it on it's own as a singular representative of social curation services would be just as unfair as say judging 4chan as a blog or judging Tumblr's main culture as what the blogosphere is all about. On top of this, it ignores the fact that Scoop.it is not the most unique among the social curation services. A simple google search could show that in fact it's the opposite: it is the most generic. (though generic here is not necessarily bad) From the very beginning Scoop.it never hid itself as Tumblr but focusing on topics. (Though the direction they took doesn't really show that as there's no way to be anonymous and focus completely on a topic but nonetheless everything about it is still more topic based than Tumblr.) To top it off, it would be one thing to say, "Hey I registered to Scoop.it and it seems to be...[...]" but forgive me if I accuse you of not even doing this to prejudge a service. I'm not saying so with the intent of being defensive towards the serv... - Fake Name