WWWWolf:

A hint, swampy: Please be considerate of others

 

In Swampy's world, there is only:

• Swampy himself
• Swampy's friends (*)
  
• Swampy's "Swampies" (*)
  
• Figments of Swampy's imagination (i.e. unimportant people.)  It is okay to offend, annoy, and generally rile these people up, since they don't really exist anyway

(*) The size of some of these sets may be <= 0

CodeSimian:

WWWWolf:

A hint, swampy: Please be considerate of others

 

In Swampy's world, there is only:

• Swampy himself
• Swampy's friends (*)
  
• Swampy's "Swampies" (*)
  
• Figments of Swampy's imagination (i.e. unimportant people.)  It is okay to offend, annoy, and generally rile these people up, since they don't really exist anyway

(*) The size of some of these sets may be <= 0

 

You forgot The Masses! 

bstorer:

CodeSimian:

WWWWolf:

A hint, swampy: Please be considerate of others

 

In Swampy's world, there is only:

• Swampy himself
• Swampy's friends (*)
  
• Swampy's "Swampies" (*)
  
• Figments of Swampy's imagination (i.e. unimportant people.)  It is okay to offend, annoy, and generally rile these people up, since they don't really exist anyway

(*) The size of some of these sets may be <= 0

 

You forgot The Masses! 

 

See above:  Swampy's "Swampies"

CodeSimian:

bstorer:

CodeSimian:

WWWWolf:

A hint, swampy: Please be considerate of others

 

In Swampy's world, there is only:

• Swampy himself
• Swampy's friends (*)
  
• Swampy's "Swampies" (*)
  
• Figments of Swampy's imagination (i.e. unimportant people.)  It is okay to offend, annoy, and generally rile these people up, since they don't really exist anyway

(*) The size of some of these sets may be <= 0

 

You forgot The Masses! 

 

See above:  Swampy's "Swampies"

 

But the Masses won't be Swampies until they see a video of a computer screen showing them how SSDS works!

As a side note to anyone who's read Infinite Jest, I think Swampy's about 50% of the way to making The Entertainment.

I just have to say that it's increasingly disturbing that SS lived in both North Vancouver and Edmonton, having lived in both those cities myself.  I have fond memories (if you want to call them that) of both the Edmonton Journal and the North Shore News which are now sullied forever.

Thanks, SS.

-cw

CodeWhisperer:

I just have to say that it's increasingly disturbing that SS lived in both North Vancouver and Edmonton, having lived in both those cities myself.  I have fond memories (if you want to call them that) of both the Edmonton Journal and the North Shore News which are now sullied forever.

Thanks, SS.

-cw

 

Swampy's posts are coming from inside your house.  Get out!  Run!

bstorer:

But the Masses won't be Swampies until they see a video of a TV showing a Camstudio playback of a video of a computer screen showing them how SSDS works!

 

ftfy 

 Ive thought of a really clever way of doing a web app. Run SSDS on a desktop, then make a HTTP server that sends a bunch of SendKeys calls to it and screenscrape the result back to web client. Depending on the requested URL, the HTTP server would send a bunch of commands to the SSDS idling on the desktop to open the requested text file and send what was dumped to the SSDS output window back to the client. Implementing a wiki could be possible too, maybe You could also replicate the text files to other desktops and do load balancing too...

Tachyon:

 Ive thought of a really clever way of doing a web app. Run SSDS on a desktop, then make a HTTP server that sends a bunch of SendKeys calls to it and screenscrape the result back to web client. Depending on the requested URL, the HTTP server would send a bunch of commands to the SSDS idling on the desktop to open the requested text file and send what was dumped to the SSDS output window back to the client. Implementing a wiki could be possible too, maybe You could also replicate the text files to other desktops and do load balancing too...

 

Should be easy enough to run all of this off my Ubuntu server....

Tachyon:

 Ive thought of a really clever way of doing a web app. Run SSDS on a desktop, then make a HTTP server that sends a bunch of SendKeys calls to it and screenscrape the result back to web client. Depending on the requested URL, the HTTP server would send a bunch of commands to the SSDS idling on the desktop to open the requested text file and send what was dumped to the SSDS output window back to the client. Implementing a wiki could be possible too, maybe You could also replicate the text files to other desktops and do load balancing too...

 

It's worth doing right, which is to say, thoroughly wrong.  We're going to need a Citrix server...

 

 More aliens. Using high speed playback on SSDS and Camstudio. Recording the video seems to slow things down a bit. But that's what you need when you are capturing aliens on video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBGuNfBZqBo

Somebody has already complained about not having zoom. Yeah like I'm going to take it down. I've done worse way worse. 

A screen reshoot is always better.

again the original videos for the above clip are at:

http://www.archive.org/details/Mushroom_cloud

http://www.archive.org/details/demo13-pict7

 

 

 

 

SpectateSwamp:

A screen reshoot is always better.

You spelled "a completely futile, pointlessly infuriating waste of everyone's time" wrong.

WWWWolf:

dlikhten:

He wants to make sure that people can't easily guess his URLs, you know he IS paranoid. I bet URLs are just a government conspiracy, there are no URLs, its all a lie to cover for Area 51 which houses UFOs! If you don't believe me I can show you the magical medicine stone that has this information written on it...

This just in: archive.org is part of the vast government conspiracy to archive everything, everywhere, everyhow! Did you know you cannot access The Wayback Machine unless you know the exact URL of the resource in question? Clearly an indication of why the site operates the way it does! Do not trust archive.org to post your alternative theories, the site exposes all of its metadata for everyone. It's true! Just check the full download links for the items in archives and you'll see the .xml metadata files. The truth is out there!

 

DAMN! Where is my tinfoil hat? Wire hangars! wire hangars! Get them up I don't want them scanning my brain! Where are the medicine stones I ordered?!

Oh man did you see that video where on a few frames there is a black spot which is clearly a government cover up of some aliens landing? Yea I saw that one too, it was awsome!

 

 

http://www.archive.org/details/Spooked_Sparrow

SpectateSwamp:

More aliens.

No, just out of focus blurry not focused things.

SpectateSwamp:

Using high speed playback on SSDS and Camstudio.

Why?

SpectateSwamp:

A screen reshoot is always better.

Screen reshoots just add more compression artefacts and lower the overall video quality. Recording your entire desktop just to reshoot a single video is moronic (to be expected admittedly).Doing this and then uploading to google just makes it all even worse.

WWWWolf:

Please be considerate of others: use proper names, proper labelling...

SpectateSwamp:

http://www.archive.org/details/Spooked_Sparrow

 

Gentlemen, it appears SpectateAI has evolved to the next level of rudimentary intelligence: the ability to learn from past mistakes and follow the advice of others. 

Will Swampy eventually walk upright and achieve full sentience?  Stay tuned!

 

CodeSimian:

Gentlemen, it appears SpectateAI has evolved to the next level of rudimentary intelligence: the ability to learn from past mistakes and follow the advice of others. 

Will Swampy eventually walk upright and achieve full sentience?  Stay tuned!

This probably should be added to his biography...

SpectateSwamp:

I've done worse way worse. 

We know.  We spent a 2500+ post thread discussing it.

SpectateSwamp:

I've done worse way worse. 

 

I know, but that smell coming from underneath your trailer is none of our business.

bstorer:

SpectateSwamp:

I've done worse way worse. 

We know.  We spent a 2500+ post thread discussing it.

 

I can't speak for anyone else, but it was certainly time well spent! I don't regret one second of it! No, seriously! :sob: 

Another thing to add to the biography or other appropriate place is an explanation of the origin of the name SpectateSwamp (that dream he had...) 

Eternal Density:

Another thing to add to the biography or other appropriate place is an explanation of the origin of the name SpectateSwamp (that dream he had...) 

A fascinating tidbit, no doubt. I wouldn't mock him for it - dreams are always fascinating.

However, the biography needs a proper introduction, don't you think?

"Know, oh Administrator, that between the years when the capitalists swallowed the Bubble and the gleaming websites within, and the years of the rise of the Hordes of Jimbo, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining websites lay spread across the vast net like chugging Suns and snarling COTS servers — YouTube, MySpace, MSN, SourceForge.net, World of Warcraft with its dark-haired women (?) and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Google with its chivalry, Technorati that bordered on the pastoral lands of Cute Overload, Archive.org with its shadow-guarded tombs, Digg whose riders wore, when they wore anything at all, underpants and jeans and T-shirts. But the proudest website of the world was Slashdot, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Spectate Swamp, the Canadian, yellow-haired, shade-eyed, holey stones in hand, a UFOlogist, a BASIC monkey, a bird-shooter, with gigantic frustrations and gigantic zeals, to tread the well-revised Best Practices of this Earth under his muck-booted feet."

— The DailyWTFian Chronicles

SpectateSwamp:

Somebody has already complained about not having zoom. Yeah like I'm going to take it down. I've done worse way worse. 

A screen reshoot is always better.

Hey, look at that video in my signature again! In several locations, it shows magnified portions of the screens, and no, I do not own a video camera! (Okay, I own a rather crappy webcam, but that probably doesn't quite count as a video production equipment...) The resolution is quite good - the reason for artifacts is mostly due to using MJPEG with no apparent control over compression quality. Oh well.

Is it really that hard to feed the CamStudio file through VIrtualDub's crop filter? Knowing Swampy, it just might be, but the rest of the world doesn't have that problem. And I don't know about CamStudio, but all of the screen capture utilities I have at hand allow you to pick the screen region.

By the way, speaking of one problem in SSDS, Swampy: you may want to look at that giant big VB book and look up a concept called "double buffering" (or possibly "page flipping"). Don't worry, implementing it usually involves only a few additional code lines (don't know about VB, but it is a snap in OpenGL and pretty damn easy in SDL and Java applets). If it's not in that book, it's probably in many other good books on computer graphics. You know, most people writing graphics-intensive applications would probably go "why the hell does it do that?" when they run into that problem, and a few seconds after that, "how the hell do I make it not do that?"...

Not clear enough, eh? Well, here's the same in swamp-speak:

Brings back memories of programming in Aurora Basic on 386SX in Windows 3.1. My first animation program. It drew a four frame loop of a badly drawn PaintBrush'd guy walking across the screen. Flickered like hell. But I figured I could skip clearing the drawing area. And the animation was smooth after that. And I didn't even use double-buffer. Not Clearing Screen is love. Even id Software used it.

WWWWolf:

Hey, look at that video in my signature again!

 

Days from now, when Spectate is reviewing this thread in C:\SEARCH\Thedailywtf.txt, he will look at the plain-text copy of your signature and say to himself: "What the Heck is that SSSSwamp YapPing About?  Ain't no video in that signature!"

Desktop Search Rain - Gothic Computing's EASY button 

 

Unless, of course, he is really interested in your video, in which case he will use his camcorder to record himself clicking on the link, and playing back your video:

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8159/156478.aspx#156478 

SpectateSwamp:

 

CodeSimian:

...futile attempt to convince Spectate to stop copying-and-pasting the thread into a giant text file...

 

For the number of times I want to copy forums. My way is easier than learning something new. (not need to know mode) I would do short video segments and screen captures of the funny cartoons. To play randomly from a DVD. Or maybe not. Too much fun doing Dino Mummy and Alien stuff. Also planning the Next to last Dance with the stones. 2012 being the Last.