I actually use Torrents with both Sickbeard and Couchpotato instead of Newsgroups, and it works fairly well. Of course the MPAA can play whack-a-mole shutting down sites that these software's use, but all it takes is a quick update and I'm using whatever new sites pop up. And with both making use of anonymous proxies to get the torrents, even country restrictions to certain sites don't apply. - HEX
Looks like I'm watching anything I want, when I want, without the MPAA even slowing me down. Wow, even regional restrictions are gone, as I watch shows and movies from all over the world immediately instead of waiting for a Region 1 release. Thanks Open Source software and Hackers like me for inventing the future of entertainment. MPAA give it up and start paying for decent product placement in shows, fuck commercials. - HEX
I'll echo the speed improvement in video, although the latency of not being quite sure if your click has been registered sometimes leads to issues where you suddenly have several clicks, say on a scroll bar, suddenly register and do much more than you intended. Speaking of scrolling, I couldn't get two finger scroll bar movement to work from my Android (HTC Supersonic aka EVO 4G) and didn't even try the popup keyboard due to disconnections. To be fair, my wifi signal wasn't the best due to a huge storm while I tested. I'll give it a try for personal use before falling back to LogMeIn. - HEX
Easy install on both Win7 and Android from the official Play/Market, had some connection issues but it worked fairly well. Not sure if the resolution switch on my Win7 machine can be turned off, but I couldn't see the controls of YouTube videos even though they would play both audio (smooth) and video (smooth to jittery). Dealt with multi monitors somewhat OK but the aforementioned resolution switch screwed up the positioning of the windows I keep open on my second monitor. All in all a decent showing and with free audio and faster video a free alternative to LogMeIn's audio option. I'll keep both for now and play with this some more. - HEX
Correction: Yeah I was reading wikipedia and the linked page on their home site before posting, just went back and saw the big "Get Streamer for PC, etc" button. I'll have to play with it see if I can do Win7 to Android better than LogMeIn. - HEX
Not that everything needs to support Windows, but their hyped specs would be interesting to try on the Windows side of both the data center and home. Right now I tend to use RDP (mainly), LogMeIn, or occasionally something like TeamViewer. Cross platform especially to Android is a great selling point for me and many other Windows admins. Looks like their Linux only tho. - HEX
So it can still be used with a keyboard and mouse if you choose to use the new GUI? Choice is good, and those console folks might like it, but I'll stick with PC style controls. - HEX
I finally took the test twice: once as myself now, an adult, with all the workarounds I use to appear Neuro-Typical, and once as myself as a child with all the things I used to do naturally. Several others I told about doing it twice found it worked for them that way, but of course it is no substitute for a real professional who probably looked into your history and traits you now no longer express. - HEX
The various and seeming endless combination of the spectrum and manifestations that autism can show are about individual people, not large groups easily coded into a medical billing system. Unfortunately I have first hand experience having a stepson diagnosed at what may be one of the top research/treatment locations in Ann Arbor MI and the diagnosis and treatment must be individually tailored to the person, especially a child. A slight change in the wording of the diagnosis effects how the school system handles them greatly, and what level of mainstreaming they get in school or if they go to a school with kids diagnosed with mental or behavioral issues. Here's a hint, sending a kid with Asperger's Syndrome to a place where they learn all their social cues from mentally, emotionally, or behaviorally challenged individuals teaches them all the wrong things. Thats what happened before he was properly diagnosed over two intensive days of interviews, reviews, etc. After he went into main stream school and is learning normal social skills. - HEX
Sorry but a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder is such a wide range of issues that we need things to be broken down a bit more. Saying something is ASD is as bad as labeling it Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) which is a HUGE umbrella term. I'm an Asperger Syndrome person, and not quite like everyone else but still a diagnosis of AS fits me much better than ASD.
Unfortunately all the credit card and payment providers really do censor the websites that can use them, especially once you want to include any type of nudity on your site. Even nudity for artistic/dramatic reasons can force sites like mine into the "high risk" providers who deal with the porn industry and their huge markup. I've had to be extremely careful with nudity to avoid getting labeled porn. - HEX
Using BitTorrent tech for delivery helps too, not only is it fast but more importantly I am assured my games download successfully. Last Humble Bundle I had issues with the Direct Download link for Eufloria HD (not available on Steam) and of course the BitTorrent link worked fine. Never had an issue with Steam. - HEX
I'm still going through loading my tabs, and initial page load seems slower but of course it could just be my connection acting up. Subjective experience means much to the individual user but I can't tell yet that anything is really faster. *shrug* - HEX
^ This plus make the support line cost while on the line with a tech, not while on hold. I've even seen this done within the same company, altho then it's virtual accounting and no money actually changes hands, it just appears in the budget and is used to track support calls. - HEX
I get hit hard every day due to some of the esoteric terms in my resume (I'm a Windows OS/apps rollout and migration specialist), and end up having the primary tier of recruiters contact me first, then a week or two later the second (larger) tier hit me with the exact same job. The worst aspects of it are the recruiters ignoring my geographic/telecommuting preferences and wanting me to constantly "network" for someone to fill their positions. It becomes discouraging to waste so much time filtering the same exact irrelevant positions over and over. - HEX
I wanted to simply host my forums using Google Groups, but unfortunately they force iFrame and all sorts of nasty stuff that just doesn't work as you can see from my example, a blank box where the forum should be. Haven't revisited it in a while but it really should be easier to leverage Groups. Any fixes?;) - HEX
all the innovation in hearing lately is coming from everywhere BUT the hearing aid companies. Seriously can't wait for the advances in stem cells, electronics, etc to replace that entire industry. - HEX
To amplify on the previous answer: It's the wavelength that is different, not the speed. I'm not well versed in this but light, electricity, all "waves" and "rays" move at the speed of light. - HEX
After playing for a bit I think this is a side effect of the distortion effect used to create the sliding when you try to turn at speed. It is a bit disconcerting to see it happen when your not actually moving however. - HEX
No wonder no one replies to me, they are all distracted by my link and visit my site instead! A bittersweet win-win situation! As for visiting from work, no one sets their alert threshold that low for even adult material, sure you might get a blocked page but you won't get HR on your back for it. Of course my area and level of IT we're exempt from filtering usually, too many good resource sites get erroneously filtered. (and we implement the filters lol) - HEX
I call in the networking team/group when it gets to this point, but I've seen it happen so often behind the scenes at Fortune 500's as well as publicly like this occurrence to have heard that it's "un-fixable by design" from those networking folks. Glad to see some progress is being made to really fix the issue. - HEX
Strategic decision, while I do own the hex.ms domain I knew once.xxx came out it would be as recognized and memorable as the big three.com/.net/.org and just try getting a three char name on one of those.:P Also when we started we wanted the "freedom" to do "porn" if the story/script supported it, but the major issue is the credit card companies, we wouldn't be able to use Paypal, etc, so we dropped the idea. - HEX
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I actually use Torrents with both Sickbeard and Couchpotato instead of Newsgroups, and it works fairly well. Of course the MPAA can play whack-a-mole shutting down sites that these software's use, but all it takes is a quick update and I'm using whatever new sites pop up. And with both making use of anonymous proxies to get the torrents, even country restrictions to certain sites don't apply. - HEX
Looks like I'm watching anything I want, when I want, without the MPAA even slowing me down. Wow, even regional restrictions are gone, as I watch shows and movies from all over the world immediately instead of waiting for a Region 1 release. Thanks Open Source software and Hackers like me for inventing the future of entertainment. MPAA give it up and start paying for decent product placement in shows, fuck commercials. - HEX
Or even Michigan State University... damn I know there is someone out there outraged by my mistake, hopefully I won't be murdered. - HEX
What is this world coming to when University of Michigan students have to go to Newark to study murders? We used to rock the murder numbers! - HEX
I'll echo the speed improvement in video, although the latency of not being quite sure if your click has been registered sometimes leads to issues where you suddenly have several clicks, say on a scroll bar, suddenly register and do much more than you intended. Speaking of scrolling, I couldn't get two finger scroll bar movement to work from my Android (HTC Supersonic aka EVO 4G) and didn't even try the popup keyboard due to disconnections. To be fair, my wifi signal wasn't the best due to a huge storm while I tested. I'll give it a try for personal use before falling back to LogMeIn. - HEX
Easy install on both Win7 and Android from the official Play/Market, had some connection issues but it worked fairly well. Not sure if the resolution switch on my Win7 machine can be turned off, but I couldn't see the controls of YouTube videos even though they would play both audio (smooth) and video (smooth to jittery). Dealt with multi monitors somewhat OK but the aforementioned resolution switch screwed up the positioning of the windows I keep open on my second monitor. All in all a decent showing and with free audio and faster video a free alternative to LogMeIn's audio option. I'll keep both for now and play with this some more. - HEX
Correction: Yeah I was reading wikipedia and the linked page on their home site before posting, just went back and saw the big "Get Streamer for PC, etc" button. I'll have to play with it see if I can do Win7 to Android better than LogMeIn. - HEX
Not that everything needs to support Windows, but their hyped specs would be interesting to try on the Windows side of both the data center and home. Right now I tend to use RDP (mainly), LogMeIn, or occasionally something like TeamViewer. Cross platform especially to Android is a great selling point for me and many other Windows admins. Looks like their Linux only tho. - HEX
So it can still be used with a keyboard and mouse if you choose to use the new GUI? Choice is good, and those console folks might like it, but I'll stick with PC style controls. - HEX
I finally took the test twice: once as myself now, an adult, with all the workarounds I use to appear Neuro-Typical, and once as myself as a child with all the things I used to do naturally. Several others I told about doing it twice found it worked for them that way, but of course it is no substitute for a real professional who probably looked into your history and traits you now no longer express. - HEX
The various and seeming endless combination of the spectrum and manifestations that autism can show are about individual people, not large groups easily coded into a medical billing system. Unfortunately I have first hand experience having a stepson diagnosed at what may be one of the top research/treatment locations in Ann Arbor MI and the diagnosis and treatment must be individually tailored to the person, especially a child. A slight change in the wording of the diagnosis effects how the school system handles them greatly, and what level of mainstreaming they get in school or if they go to a school with kids diagnosed with mental or behavioral issues. Here's a hint, sending a kid with Asperger's Syndrome to a place where they learn all their social cues from mentally, emotionally, or behaviorally challenged individuals teaches them all the wrong things. Thats what happened before he was properly diagnosed over two intensive days of interviews, reviews, etc. After he went into main stream school and is learning normal social skills. - HEX
Sorry but a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder is such a wide range of issues that we need things to be broken down a bit more. Saying something is ASD is as bad as labeling it Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) which is a HUGE umbrella term. I'm an Asperger Syndrome person, and not quite like everyone else but still a diagnosis of AS fits me much better than ASD.
Shout out to the Aspie Quiz, go take it! - HEX
Unfortunately all the credit card and payment providers really do censor the websites that can use them, especially once you want to include any type of nudity on your site. Even nudity for artistic/dramatic reasons can force sites like mine into the "high risk" providers who deal with the porn industry and their huge markup. I've had to be extremely careful with nudity to avoid getting labeled porn. - HEX
Using BitTorrent tech for delivery helps too, not only is it fast but more importantly I am assured my games download successfully. Last Humble Bundle I had issues with the Direct Download link for Eufloria HD (not available on Steam) and of course the BitTorrent link worked fine. Never had an issue with Steam. - HEX
I'm still going through loading my tabs, and initial page load seems slower but of course it could just be my connection acting up. Subjective experience means much to the individual user but I can't tell yet that anything is really faster. *shrug* - HEX
^ This plus make the support line cost while on the line with a tech, not while on hold. I've even seen this done within the same company, altho then it's virtual accounting and no money actually changes hands, it just appears in the budget and is used to track support calls. - HEX
I get hit hard every day due to some of the esoteric terms in my resume (I'm a Windows OS/apps rollout and migration specialist), and end up having the primary tier of recruiters contact me first, then a week or two later the second (larger) tier hit me with the exact same job. The worst aspects of it are the recruiters ignoring my geographic/telecommuting preferences and wanting me to constantly "network" for someone to fill their positions. It becomes discouraging to waste so much time filtering the same exact irrelevant positions over and over. - HEX
I wanted to simply host my forums using Google Groups, but unfortunately they force iFrame and all sorts of nasty stuff that just doesn't work as you can see from my example, a blank box where the forum should be. Haven't revisited it in a while but it really should be easier to leverage Groups. Any fixes? ;) - HEX
all the innovation in hearing lately is coming from everywhere BUT the hearing aid companies. Seriously can't wait for the advances in stem cells, electronics, etc to replace that entire industry. - HEX
To amplify on the previous answer: It's the wavelength that is different, not the speed. I'm not well versed in this but light, electricity, all "waves" and "rays" move at the speed of light. - HEX
After playing for a bit I think this is a side effect of the distortion effect used to create the sliding when you try to turn at speed. It is a bit disconcerting to see it happen when your not actually moving however. - HEX
No wonder no one replies to me, they are all distracted by my link and visit my site instead! A bittersweet win-win situation! As for visiting from work, no one sets their alert threshold that low for even adult material, sure you might get a blocked page but you won't get HR on your back for it. Of course my area and level of IT we're exempt from filtering usually, too many good resource sites get erroneously filtered. (and we implement the filters lol) - HEX
I call in the networking team/group when it gets to this point, but I've seen it happen so often behind the scenes at Fortune 500's as well as publicly like this occurrence to have heard that it's "un-fixable by design" from those networking folks. Glad to see some progress is being made to really fix the issue. - HEX
Strategic decision, while I do own the hex.ms domain I knew once .xxx came out it would be as recognized and memorable as the big three .com/.net/.org and just try getting a three char name on one of those. :P Also when we started we wanted the "freedom" to do "porn" if the story/script supported it, but the major issue is the credit card companies, we wouldn't be able to use Paypal, etc, so we dropped the idea. - HEX
We don't do Porn, we try to keep on the erotic art side of things, and thanks for drawing attention to it lots of visitors from your mention! - HEX