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Well, it's been down for 8 months and the owner of the company has been incommunicado for four months. I'd say it's unlikely to ever come back. If there were interest in it, there would probably have been a way to make it happen before now, since it would mean some amount of cash from new...

I stopped using the CD storage books when I pulled a CD out and it couldn't be read because the book had somewhat bonded to the surface and left pits. A CD resurfacer cured it, but I'm not trying that again. I'd be somewhat in favor of tossing the cases and putting them in some decent archival...

There are definitely some plusses to developing on iOS. The Interface Builder is very good, and makes it really easy to quickly put together interface ideas, and to switch things around during development. Apple provides a set of good high-level frameworks that make many of the things you want...

I've done Gencon solo a couple times, and I like it. I'm going down again this year, and the room is mine, all mine unless my wife decides to visit her friend in Indy at the same time and comes along. I like having my schedule free to do what I want. Generally, a couple other folks I know are...

The Rules cyclopedia was ocred but the recognition was pretty bad, as was the scan quality. It was adequate but not great. I am waiting on kits like the Book Liberator to become readily available so I can scan and OCR them for my personal use. I am already doing the same thing (destructively)...

Obryn, I love it! Unfortunately, I can't do that at work right now. Not because I'm afraid of what people would think, but because my current cube is on the client tour path and we are allowed very limited personal effects. (At first, they weren't going to allow anything, but the department...

I'm an iPhone 4 user. Over the last six months, my data usage has ranged from 112MB (a low month with much of the time spent in the hospital welcoming my new son) to 600MB. I don't stream music or video, mostly email, web browsing, and forums with the Forumrunner app. If you use pandora or...

Cooking is not immune to these arguments. For example, the 1997 Joy of Cooking was reviled because of the changes it made, dropping some stuff that was traditional and changing the voice. The 2006 edition went back to the traditional feel and was much better received. In fact, before 2006...

You don't need to archive these. You have full access to the PDFs as long as you subscribe. Since you don't need to archive things, there's no need to bother you with updates: when you want to go back to an article, just log back in and you'll get the up-to-the-minute content, just as you will...

Wizards is indeed working on releasing the fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons, and currently has all their staff porting the good bits of 4e and upcoming products to it. Given people's concerns over number of books to get into the hobby, they'll start by releasing a single book which will...

Not quite. You can't write a generalized algorithm to do this for all potential pairs of programs and inputs. You CAN prove it for many specific programs.

That's not exactly true. You have a right to backup your purchases, as an exception to copyright. (Unless there is DRM code there to prevent it, which is not the case here. If there were, you'd run afoul of the DMCA.) You don't have the right to get the content from someone else, nor do they...

LazyAttribute probably refers to lazy instantiation: ie it's not instantiated until it's needed.

FWIW, according to Sitecatalyst Netaverages, non-Mac, non-Windows is about 8.3% of desktop browsers. https://netaverages.adobe.com/en-us/index.html

On the other hand, there are smaller startups with fewer employees that also provide larger amounts of space. For free. This is a commercial service that people pay for. If Wizards has the resources to run their forums, they've got the resources to provide space for additional characters...

A character sheet isn't that complicated nor does it need excessive richness on the client. There are plenty of existing web apps which are equally complex yet run on any current browser. Gmail, or google docs. I don't blame either apple or wizards. Apple chose what to put on their devices...

Others have pointed out on that thread the disk space requirements are pretty minimal, and that's probably not the biggest reason. True, it would be possible to script a denial of service and try to take up lots of space, but there are many ways around that. There are enough free sites out...

I don't play 4e so I'm not interested in helping with this app, but I just started writing an iPhone app myself, so I can offer some tips. One question: have you programmed before? Or are you starting out fresh with this? If you've programmed before you'll have an easier time of transferring...

Here's my situation, which I think is pretty good. My wife is happy when I find things that make me happy. Right now, I'm writing an iPhone app. I'm really jazzed about this, and I'm spending a decent amount of my leisure time working on it. My wife is excited that I've found something...

They probably don't need to give 60 days notice. The WARN act only kicks in if they lay off 50 or more people and if that constitutes 33% of the people at a single site. I agree that the timing is surely due to the fiscal year. My company has done the exact same thing for the exact same...