bakerstreet

bakerstreet

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Reply to Dangeruss Industries goes "open sources"! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I am both happy with what Russ has done and apprehensive as to how it will be used. He has, himself, benefited from the generosity of other artists many times, and it shows a great deal of character that he is willing to return that generosity. Russ has been kind to me in the past, and I have richly benefited from being acquainted with him. As we have seen in the Open Source community, however, this *can* be a gift that some can begin to feel entitled to. Just as Open Sourcing an app

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Reply to where do i submit rip reports? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

at this point I think that apple and MS think the kind of stuff you find here (as far as logos go) is just good advertising. Last I heard MS kept 60 million dollars, fluid, available for R&D and litigation, so if they were pissed about it they would let someone know, I'm sure... As far as Icons, UI parts and whatnot, I'm a bit more apt to agree with risk7, but people run their sites according to their personal beliefs. WC has a tradition of 'ports', and the giants in question don't s

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Reply to Where does Wincustomize stuff go when you delete it? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I played with some law-enforcement harddrive forensics software once. It was decent, but I only found stuff around a month old, and it was badly fragmented. I have seen claims that federal spooks can pull text files and images that are *years* old, regardless of wiping software. I'm dubious, but they seem to come up with a lot of stuff for evidence that way. What I used was good enough to save a half dozen or so files I couldn't have replaced. I think it is available as a trial version somew

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Reply to Anyone get this e-mail? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Jerges: At this point I don't think you have given any of the artists here a reason to grant you permission to use their work. They neither know how it is going to be used, nor what control they will have over how it will be used. If the rules and policies will be 'on the site' and the site isn't up yet, then the time to solicit material is after you have made the persons involved fully aware of your purposes. If I had to give you any advice, it would be to cease unsolicited emails

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Reply to Pop up crazy in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

pop-ups are the jaundice of a website. jaundice doesn't kill you, but it is a sign of deeper problems. The only sites that survive pop-ups are the ones that reach a critical mass of idiots, drooling as they 'punch the monkey' and pondering whether or not to buy that easily-hidden cam for that peephole to their neighbor's apartment. You are what you cater to, and if your ads target cretins, you'll have a site full of them in no time. Heck, you probably already do <img src="htt

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Reply to Subscriptions on the Internet: Wave of the future or bad idea? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It relies upon a secure, non-interest method of payment. I think it is a matter of time before people realize that for-pay internet activity is feeding 10-20% of their spending money to credit-card companies. I know that I would spend vast amounts of money online if there were a decent way to do it. I was within days of getting a Paypal account when Ebay bought them and all the class-action talk started. Now, i dunno. Credit cards are one of those unseen drains on the world econom

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Reply to Anyone get this e-mail? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

They could easily give skinners access to manage their skins, even if it were a simple web-based ftp. The fact they don't says that they either are of limited ability or they don't *want* you to manage your own skins... for whatever reason. Even more of a solid 'no' now that I see their reply.

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Reply to Anyone get this e-mail? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I would strongly advise everyone not to 'allow' anyone else to upload your skins anywhere themselves. If there are no mechanics there for you to upload them, there won't be any there for you to delete them. If they turn out to be punks, or if the nice guy gets fired and his replacement is a punk, or if the nice business sells out to punks_dot_com... etc, etc, etc. As Jafo said you are taking a chance even answering them, it would be simple to send a spider through wincusto and

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Reply to What is everyone up to? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

taking a couple of weeks for a morrowind break... before and after that I have been/will be working on two (and a half?) skin sets and a couple of heavier wallpapers. I'm mainly stalled on scripting stuff on the skins, not so much with knowing how to do it, but knowing what *to* do. I'm not familiar with all the possibilities. I'm also a bit blocked on what *to* skin, I can't decide beyond a couple of main big apps, especially since I am gonna probably have to buy some

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Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

beware the talking head... MessiahWWKD: i think you've made your point about a million times. You exemplify the situation. You state "truths" and people go on and download music regardless. Starting to feel like a waste of time? It is.

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Reply to Photoshop 7 Q's in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

C²zero: if you are gonna pay 600 dollars for an app, you have to assume there will be some time to spend learning how to use it. It is about as complex as a 2d graphics app is gonna get. It has a great help file, and a quick google brings up insane numbers of tutorials. Learning by doing is great, but you can't do anything until you know how the app works. Once you know the tools, you'll know how to put together the effects you want. Most anyone here could tell you how to do it, but

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Reply to gang of hypocrites in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

generic shape, reflection, water, sky, blah, blah, blah... It doesn't mean it is worse than the other million wallpapers i've seen like this, there's just nothing that screams 'craft'. apps don't make art, people do. If this were allowed in, people could upload several in an afternoon without breaking a sweat... Now, if you take your paint program and draw that from scratch, now *that* would be artistry... but it probably still wouldn't get in because it would look just like

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Reply to Classmates.com - the nightmare scenario of the future? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Their content would be very inexpensive to transfer, there are no big files or constant feeds, they simply take a ponding from people browsing their databse. I think the problem is that once you have contacted who you want to contact, there is little reason to continue to pay for it. Perhaps their flaw is marketing it as a 'school' based contact system, instead of just calling them a secure way of reaching people you have lost track of. Of course you could still track people by their

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Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Frogboy: and somehow making an app that millions of people want to use isn't fundamental economics? How can you fault a natural law that you, yourself profit from? He saw a demand, and offered a supply. What MessiahWWKD doesn't see is that economic truths are *as natural* as pink monky asses; they are just as sublimated and just as instictual. They are why communism failed, and we still thrive. If Mr Fanning hadn't chose to make Napster, someone else would have answered the call. Demand is

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Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Messiah : "What, you can't afford music? Go to wal-mart and be satisfied with what you get. Sorry, but you have been designated this particular selection because of your existence within this geographical and economic demographic. Here, again, is your complimentary jar of petrolium jelly." While I am sure that Wal-Mart is the great humanist answer to all financial struggle in your locale, it has a sad selection of music, and no validity at all outside the US. ( a rather

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Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This is a guy that made an app that might easily have gone unnoticed had there not been IMMENSE demand. When in history has there every been demand for a technology that didn't somehow appear soon after to fill it? The demand is the issue, and all the counter-intuative reasoning and fascist oversight by the industry will not make the slightest headway in addressing the actual reason for the demand. A venue was created and users did with it what they wanted. What they did speaks

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