Can't see the forest for the trees : this expression means that if you look at things one at a time, you might not realize that a branch of separate " trees " go together to make a " forest . If we focus on this subject alone, that is precisely what we are doing. What is currently happening is a LOT more scarier than that, and if people don't wake up in time to see the big picture we are in for some very troublesome
[quote who="starkers" reply="12" id="3697001"]Yes AND NO, JC, not all cases are cut and dry. I knew of a young woman whose friends encouraged her to be interviewed by a TV producer for a position on a [I shall not name] network's journalism team, and what happened to her was horrendous. She was a Christian girl, a virgin [waiting until marriage] and somewhat a shrinking violet, and as much as she resisted his advances and promises of fame, she was no match and the man took advanta
[quote who="Iben" reply="5" id="3696908"]So women don't turn the tables and use sex to get to places of power? And if they do they definitely won't go to prison?[/quote] Of course they do, and no they won't. Our society is being arrogant (people act as if they themselves would/could do no wrong) and hypocritical (everyone knows how the system works but they pretend to be shocked and surprised). Wrong or right, this games between men and women are nothing new: men use pow
To tell you the truth when I saw the 'new' forum I didn't think it looked 'cleaner', I thought it was broken - had to refresh the page twice convinced it had not finished loading or something. Then I noticed this thread. Yes, sometimes less is more, but I don't think this is one of those cases. Did anyone ever complain that the forums looked cluttered? EDIT: Well, looking at it again, I guess people eventually get used to (almost) everything. :)
Thanks Jim. Since I got a couple of questions regarding Stardock's Start10 and Winstep Xtreme, I would like to clarify that Winstep software is fully compatible with *all* Stardock software. This means you can still use Start10 from the Winstep Xtreme replacement taskbar. More Information: <span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;
Quick update: Irma's outer bands are making their way in to Tampa now. We're still here, of course, but seeing the situation getting progressively worse from Friday onwards in terms of where Irma is heading, we decided to setup a secondary backup server 2,000 miles away from the disaster area. We've been working round-the-clock throughout the weekend to make sure that, if the worst happens, any downtime will be minimized. Again, to all the people on the path of this hurr
Lol Jafo... It now looks like the whole of Florida is going to be affected. Ouch. This is perhaps what that article in the Washington Post forewarned in July: "Tampa Bay's coming storm. The area is due for a major hurricane, and it is not prepared. If a big one scores a direct hit, the damage would likely surpass Katrina.' https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/health/environment/tampa-bay-climate-change/
Just a small heads up. Although there is still a lot of uncertainty, it looks like Cat 5 hurricane Irma might be heading towards southern and center Florida. Winstep is hosted at the Hivelocity data center in Tampa, FL, and while they have really robust facilities (reinforced concrete buildings built to withstand the severest of weather, UPS sys
Microsoft didn't totally remove Aero Glass transparency in Windows 10, but they crippled it in such a way that it became useless for irregular dock backgrounds. Even now I believe you can only natively blur 'square' or 'rectangular' areas/windows/backgrounds. There was (is?) a 3rd party utility called Aero Glass that enabled the old Aero Glass/Blur functionality in Windows 10 for applications that could take advantage of it, but even though it works it's a 'run at your own risk' type
Hmmm... is this similar to one of those 'some Chinese firm wants to register your domain name in China but we're here to help you if you register a worthless .cn top-level country code domain name with us first for only $' scams? China and copyright do not currently mix - you also can't make money from a culture that still thinks Intellectual Property rights are nonsense and that pirating EVERYTHING (software, cars, phones, etc...) is absolutely ok. Not that they're poor - that hasn't
RIP Xiandi. My condolences to all her family and friends. :(
R.I.P. John Koenig, commander of moon base Alpha.
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[quote who="Barnack2" reply="7" id="3684102"]I made my own "Windows SideBar" far before finding out about stardock, and you know what, i see no reason to buy a software that i, as an indie game developer who never released a game, can create in a couple weeks.[/quote] Not sure if what you wrote is out of arrogance or you are simply being naive. If writing fully functional/fully featured software is so simple that you can do it under two weeks, why have you never released one of your g
[quote who="Hankers" reply="8" id="3680555"]Yes, Seth is on a vacation.[/quote] Alright, thanks Hankers! :)
Is everything ok with DrJBHL (Seth Johnston)? Haven't seen him around here in a while...
[quote who="Uvah" reply="53" id="3673408"]Perhaps the weather feed it uses can work with SMX. [/quote] Sysmetrix uses METAR information for current weather conditions that is (was) retrieved from the NOAA website. Unfortunately NOAA recently deprecated the page METAR information was retrieved from, so that information is no longer available at the old URL used by Sysmetrix. The Winstep Nexus dock uses multiple weather feeds (Weath
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[quote who="starkers" reply="3" id="3671614"]I'll pay a visit to the Winstep forums to catch up with his more recent stuff. In fact, it'd be fantastic to find somebody has done a Winstep theme over there.[/quote] Alas, unfortunately he isn't doing anything Winstep related either... he's more interested in stand-alone widgets, and, as you know, Winstep applications go much further than that.
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Eh? Did you guys watch the video?! Am I missing something? He uses an ELEVATED cmd window to launch the DoubleAgent executable. Without admin privileges given to it by the user in the first place, DoubleAgent can't do anything. This 'zero-day exploit' is a joke.
[quote who="ZubaZ" reply="15" id="3671530"]In regards to mixed reality . . . https://vimeo.com/209070629 [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Wow, great video! Brilliant twist.
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Yereverluvinuncleber over at the Winstep forums is a master of SteamPunk. Have you guys talked to him already? Check out some of his work:
If Jark (Scott Jarkoff) didn't sell his shares at DA he is now a millionaire, just as Spyed so ironically predicted in 'the final confrontation'. Old timers will know what I am talking about. :)
Wow! Let's hope Wix don't bring it to the ground the same way eFront did with Skinz.org all those years ago. What saved DA from going the way of the Dodo like most other skinning sites was NOT focusing solely on the skinning community, but also on the art community (which eventually became their main focus).
OMG. Did Tim delete all his themes? http://essorant.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=1
[quote who="Jafo" reply="20" id="3664464"]Had the discussion been on any other forum section it would be welcome...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Look, I understand, and this is a fine line we walk, but *the only reason* I posted on that thread was because Gevan said something inaccurate about Nexus and I wanted to let him (and others) know that you could actually do what he thought couldn't be done, and how to do it. I didn't take that thread off-topic, others did befor
There's a new beta that has just been released, try it out (you must enable the 'notify me of beta (test) versions' setting in the Advanced tab of Preferences), then please let me know if that fixed your problem. Also, did you see my PM to you here after Jafo deleted my reply to your comment (as well as all other comments praising Winstep applications made by SD/Winstep users) in the OD thread abo