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Author Topic: What I learned today!  (Read 195062 times)

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2700 on: November 20, 2013, 04:30:15 PM »

I actually have no idea what other people are using these days.

Extremely informal research (read: a handful of online polls) suggests that the largest share of Windows users are split between Foobar and iTunes, followed by the Winamp old guard, and then Amarok, VLC, and even Windows Media Player (whyyyy) trailing well behind.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2701 on: November 20, 2013, 04:53:48 PM »

Wow, I didn't even know Amarok had a Windows port.  I find it hard to believe it's more widely used than WMP.

It's what I use, but (1) I use KDE and (2) I once knew a guy named Amaroq.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2702 on: November 20, 2013, 06:13:09 PM »

I enjoy using Foobar, and I'm not even using it to its full potential. I think at this point I'm using the same setup I stitched together back in 2007 or so.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2703 on: November 20, 2013, 07:11:09 PM »

Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.
Huh.

Still on v5.61. Works fine.

I had assumed this was still the default player for most people on PC. I actually have no idea what other people are using these days.

we're also in november mongrel, so it's still a month to go. But whatever online services they'll shut down, I've never used, so I don't really feel like switching out from winamp.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2704 on: November 20, 2013, 08:13:23 PM »

Naw, when I said "works fine" all I meant was that I've never had a reason to switch or upgrade further. I don't use any online functions either.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2705 on: November 21, 2013, 12:37:25 AM »

Extremely informal research (read: a handful of online polls) suggests that the largest share of Windows users are split between Foobar and iTunes, followed by the Winamp old guard, and then Amarok, VLC, and even Windows Media Player (whyyyy) trailing well behind.
The planetarium's 'Full-Dome Projection Rock Show' was regularly referred to as similar to Winamp visualizations. The number of people who understood what that meant reflected these numbers.

The main issue is you either buy your music from a service you play it through, or use youtube, spotify or pandora depending on your listening habits. Right now probably about 100% of Winamp users are doing it for shoutcast streaming.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2706 on: November 21, 2013, 04:08:07 AM »

Or because they are feelthy pee-rats.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2707 on: November 21, 2013, 11:05:18 AM »

Today I learned about Roza Shanina.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2708 on: November 21, 2013, 11:16:52 AM »

I told some of my friends about her a little less than ten years ago.

One of them has used her pic as his avatar for all his online accounts ever since.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2709 on: November 21, 2013, 01:54:20 PM »

I learned that I'm not supposed to be washing my duck and chicken eggs when they are gathered for the day, because it actually would make them MORE vulnerable to gross bacterial crap :O

Ohhhhhh my ducks.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2710 on: November 21, 2013, 06:15:22 PM »

Yes and no. Once they're washed (in an appropriate-temperature bath) they just need to be fridged immediately and forever. If you don't wash them, you can keep them unrefridgerated for a couple weeks, but there's a chance of surface contaminants getting into the good parts when you crack them. It's kind of an either/or thing.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2711 on: November 22, 2013, 08:26:59 AM »

In July of 2010, Iran banned the mullet.

I'm pretty sure I've just discovered the font all jokes.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2712 on: November 22, 2013, 11:46:30 AM »

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Page 5 of the warmachine rules is the "code of ethics" where it tells you to "play like you've got a pair" and a bunch of other over the top shit.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2713 on: November 25, 2013, 10:38:22 AM »

Somebody actually used Second Life for business purposes.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2714 on: November 25, 2013, 11:05:52 AM »

Just how irrelevant-to-Second-Life business are we talking, here? 'Cause I know of a guy who made a fishing app for Second Life and made actual money from it, but that's a little bit different than (say) conducting client meetings or passing memos using some sort of virtual office, and while I can hold the latter idea in my head as something arguably possible, the mind recoils from it as from a suddenly revealed snake.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2715 on: November 25, 2013, 11:34:14 AM »

At its apex, I recall most major news outlets proclaiming to have Second Life Virtual Offices.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2716 on: November 25, 2013, 11:56:44 AM »

My university used SecondLife for something. I remember seeing it in the list of programs on the server.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2717 on: November 25, 2013, 12:58:25 PM »

I know a guy whose job is literally making OpenSim virtual worlds for the Navy.  OpenSim literally just being Second Life with different or local servers.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2718 on: November 25, 2013, 02:16:56 PM »

Every time I hear about the cost of some player-made virtual item in Second Life - like a shirt or a couch or whatever - my mind boggles. Some of this stuff costs as much as a real-life items would, in spite of being little more than an poorly-texture lump with overlap issues, modelled in OGRE or Blender by a hapless amateur.
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