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Reply to What Is Your Ethical I.Q.? in Ethics Stardock Forums

Lying under oath? What do you mean? Lying about what? Are you referring to Bill Clinton, and the time he lied about getting a blow-job? Is that the lie that I overlooked? I think you could put "Lying About...", even "Lying Under Oath About..." in front of any of the "correct" answers, and they would remain as correct. Bill Clinton made the mistake of respecting Congress, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law enough to show up to answer questions that were

What Is Your Ethical I.Q.? in Ethics JoeUser Forums

from feeback.com Take the Ethical I.Q. Test! A quasi-Cosmo-quiz. Answer thirty-five hypothetical ethical questions, and find out your score! Which would be the more grievous offense? Staining a Pretty Blue Dress Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq Which would be the more pardonable tr

Reply to Alienware Dream Contest - Judging Begins in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Good luck to all the entrants!

Reality Relentless in Bashing Bush in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Have you ever bought prescription pills sold from obvious spam, poorly worded and spelled and clearly bogus? Me either. But someone does, that's why spammers continue to try and find new, ever more insidious ways to simply get their message viewed; that is the way spam works, you send out such a wide net that the odds are that you'll catch enough suckers to pay the

Reply to DX Coders, lend me your ears! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for stopping by rabidrobot. Glad to be here! I love the idea of a snippet tool, particularly one with DesktopX in mind from the start. I can understand the idea coming from you sViz, because I know from your many tutorials you enjoy both sharing knowledge and aiding the community selflessly. A snippet widget, which I imagine as a tool servin

Reply to DX Coders, lend me your ears! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

In reply number 16, click on the words 'custom include function' or 'Scriptomatic'. EDIT r#21: Hope that helps.

Reply to DX Coders, lend me your ears! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

They are a bit hard to see, but my post above has two links in it! The deal with object.SetScript is that it is a DesktopX function, from the DesktopX namespace. Its behavior is set, and it is such that it will allow essentially a single complete replacement script. This was a workaround to the fact that it is hard to save a backup from the DesktopX editor and every once in a while you are really glad you saved your script to an external file. But for real, traditional 'Inc

Reply to DX Coders, lend me your ears! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

A code snippet gadget sounds like a great idea! Any generic snippet would be would be useful. Sliders / Scrollbars are one thing I think of I didn't see listed. You can include more than one script in your DX script using a custom include function . For WMI, there is a very handy tool called <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09dfc342-648b-4119-b7eb-783b0f7d1178&DisplayLang=e

Reply to Perhaps I am confused... in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Regarding Windowblinds and memory / cpu use: Frogboy explains the ins and outs in the 2005 article, Memory Use Myths . And most Reviews of WindowBlinds 5 , such as this review at Ziff Davis examine performance while running WB very closely. <img src

Reply to Developer/Skinner discussion forum needed. in WinCustomize Site Issues WinCustomize Forums

No one is using the newsgroups. Y'all could post there with less of a chance of being interrupted by news.stardock.com

Reply to Were widgets overhyped? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I don't usually use widgets or dx gadgets. I like DX as much as anyone here, but I have found that even the simplest widgets crap out at some point. Either they start forgetting where to be positioned, or losing settings, or confusing visibility status, responding slowly or eating memory. I do like the super icon concept, and used AveDesk with Windows-XP for cool shortcuts, simple meters, and drop style ico png and ftp desklets. I am using Windows Sidebar for things like this now.<

Reply to BABY KILLER!!!! Oh my GOD not again in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

First, anyone except a mind numbed robot (hence your name I guess) can see that no one was calling names until you did. Doctors, I will refer you to Reply #32. That is where I believe the name calling started. You are such idiots that you can't even see the "Buttheads" in the mirror. Honestly, I imagine you guys getting up in the morning, and like in the Far Side cartoon, you need a big sign on the wall, "Socks First! Then S

Reply to BABY KILLER!!!! Oh my GOD not again in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Even though you both are massive tools (yes, I'll name call--but you should at least have the self-reflection to see that it is you who began the name calling along with your preposterous accusations), even though the two of you working together could not think the way out of a paper sack with a breadcrumb trail...I still find it a bit sad that you can't just enjoy the sheer hilarity, the serendipitous beauty of this story. It really is a shame that your hate for liberals could prevent

Reply to BABY KILLER!!!! Oh my GOD not again in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Why are you a moron? Did your Mom drop you as a baby, or were you just undernourished? Have you stopped beating your wife? Do kids run from you as you walk down the street because they don't want to be molested again, or do you just frighten them in general? So you think kicking puppies is OK? Not accusations. Just questions. And as reasonable questions following from your statements as your questions were to mine.

Reply to BABY KILLER!!!! Oh my GOD not again in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Dr Guy, you obtuseness never ceases to amaze. There is no stereotyping here, not by me. I reported a fact. About one guy. Again, this is a real person and he really was a gay porn star. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I make no generalizations...other than a bit of disdain for conservatives. Whether he was actually spit upon or called names, and why that may have happened I obviously have made no statement on, opinion or fact. The irony and relevant hypocrisy i

Reply to BABY KILLER!!!! Oh my GOD not again in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

The thread is about Cpl Matt Sanchez. My post is about Cpl Matt Sanchez. Is that so hard to understand? You may not find it relevant, but I find it extremely relevant, ironic, and funny. You'd prefer not to know, as ignorance is easier than reality, but that is just typical of right-wing authoritarian personalities, so I don't hold it against you.

Reply to BABY KILLER!!!! Oh my GOD not again in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Just an FYI interesting update on this story. Cpl. Matt Sanchez turns out to be a.k.a. gay-porn star and 'male escort' Rod Majors: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/cpacs-gay-porn-star-hono_b_42842.html

Reply to Fireworks MX error... in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

If you are using Enhanced Dialog, exclude Fireworks from it as well. You don't mention it in your list, but I have had trouble like this on occasion when programs have special save, or in this case, export dialogs and Enhanced Dialog tries to work its magic on them anyway.

Reply to DesktopX 3.5 to export Sidebar gadgets! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

To be honest I don't know javascript well enough to say that something could or couldn't be done at all. Indeed, the image filters I mention can be applied in the css. But seeing as the gadgets are rendered in essentially an Internet Explorer window, I don't see any reason in this particular case not to take advantage of vbscript. If ActiveX components become at all common in gadgets, for example, it ma

Reply to DesktopX 3.5 to export Sidebar gadgets! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Thomassen and DoctorNick, I created my gadgets for Sidebar using VBScript. It works very well, except for a few things. Some sidebar events, like settings close and open, simply cannot be subscribed to with vbscript--they are not prepared for it. But you can easily subscribe to events with javascript and signal your vbscript. I think vbscript was discouraged as a scripting-language for Sidebar Gadgets because there was hope that many gadgets would be cross-platform. Running

Reply to DesktopX 3.5 to export Sidebar gadgets! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

What sort of transparency is available to DesktopX objects exported for use in Windows Sidebar? Will DX-based widgets require rectangular opaque backgrounds (like some other hosted content in WS), transparent edges but not overlapped (ala basic Windows Sidebar gadgets), or full alpha-transparency as we are used to with DX? What kind of intelligence will DX have about what is being created and exported? Is it going to allow without comment things that probably won't work with Sidebar,

Reply to Should Stardock fix Microsoft's UAC? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

While I found the UAC to be so annoying that I had to turn it off, I am having second thoughts about this. This article in particular http://www.jimmah.com/vista/security/uac.aspx had some great information. I have been approaching UAC concerned only about how inconvenient I found it. I realize that most PC users do not do the things I do with my computer. I realize that frequently computers have more than one

Reply to Should Stardock fix Microsoft's UAC? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I turned off UAC. I really don't see much of a point in it. Is there really malicious software out there that wants to change my font size or screen resolution? What is UAC protecting me from on my personal home computer? If I have anti-virus (for whatever that's worth with Vista) and anti-spyware utilities and practice safe browsing and email habits, why do I need UAC interrupting me at all? Like Xan said above, these alerts pop-up (and I use that term intentionally) so often th