Timewaster's Guide Archive

I'm gonna say Asha'man, no question about it.

and not because of any fanboy-ism for WoT or thinking it's superior to mistborn or anything like that, but because the one power has basically consistently shown itself to be way more powerful than just about anything a mistborn can do.

Mistborn powers are more a thing of "i'm physically more powerful, with a few neat tricks, that if i'm clever enough, can be pretty potent" where as the one power is more like "I melted your flesh off in about half a second simply because i willed it to happen, and you are defenseless against the one power since you can't use it"

I should have something to submit this coming monday

I use/love it. So far, i've only seen one book series cost two credits, and that's George R. R. Martin's song of fire and ice series. Nothing else that i've seen and/or gotten has cost 2 credits. Also, even at two credits, it's cheaper per book than just buying it (it's 36 bucks after member discount, and a monthly 2 credit subscription is...uh....22 i think? i dont know, i havent checked in forever)

Note that you can also buy books, you dont have to subscribe and use credits.

Also, i use audible on my android phone. It is awesome. I highly recommend it!

Edit: i just quickly went through both the NYT best sellers and new releases lists and didnt see any costing 2 credits.

Further Edit: Leo laporte's podcast network regularly runs specials for audible, as they are a sponsor. Stuff like discount for X months, free trials, etc.

Looks like at current, you go to http://www.audible.com/macbreak for a free trial.

Replica Batmobiles, only $150,000!

I need one. Like badly. It has WORKING. ROCKET. EXHAUST.

anyone wanna spot me?

I don't use a Mac, but I can't imagine it would be particularly difficult to find an FTP client that runs on Macs. The use of FTP is too wide-spread.

oh yeah. There's FTP clients for all OS's, that's not a big deal. But mapping it as a shortcut on your desktop is what I dont know about on other systems. I know windows can do it, just not sure about other OS's. Heck, if you can download files from the internet, then your system can do FTP, because really that's all it is (it stands for file transfer protocol), there's just, at this time, no plan for a web interface in front of it.

Yeah, I agree with the others, there was probably a bit too much when it comes to the metaphors. The story was pretty well saturated with 'em.

Overall, it was a pretty good story, though, However, i'm unsure of who this particular author is (in the story), and searching online for the name given returns no results, so i'm assuming that's not his real name (?). At first, i thought it was going to be related to Ann rice, since she wrote a book by the same name and you said it was about an author.

The opening line stood out to me – you say 'match' twice in the same sentence, which makes it sound clumsy.

Are you talking about the use of the word "Match" in the same sentence as "Matchbox"? I dunno, that strikes me as just fine, since they are two separate words, however, i probably would have just said "box" and not "matchbox" since it's implied you're striking the match against a matchbox, and not just some random wooden crate.

Do you think you could start this up now and put your work on it? That way we could have an idea of what it would look like.

Well, actually, I wasn't planning any sort of web interface, I figured that would be more covert. Instead, it would be utilized using any preferred method of FTP. If we do it, then i'll post a write up of how to map FTP as a shortcut to a windows XP/vista/7 machine, but other than that, you could use any FTP software you prefer (like cuteFTP or FireFTP or something).

If there's enough interest, we could look into doing some kind of web interface, but as for "how it would look", it would look like whatever FTP method you use. Me, personally, like i said, i map it as a shortcut, which I suppose I'll post some screenshots here to show you what it looks like (but its gonna look like a windows browser)



As you can see, when i have a windows browser window open, on the left, i have an FTP link. Anytime i click on it, it auto connects to my FTP site, and I see a list of all the files contained there. So if we did this with our works, it would just look like a collective folder of document files, and wouldnt really require you downloading them or anything, you could just run em from there. This way, anyone who joins wouldn't have to ask for anyone's work who has it in the archive, and you wouldnt have to worry if you lost a certain email or something, and you wouldn't have to worry about saving and organizing em yourself. To me, it just seems like a nice, simple solution, ya know?




Anyways, like i said, if there's interest in making some sort of web interface, it could certainly be done, but that's up to everyone. I don't want to change or do something that no one else wants, ya know? It's not my work, its all you guys', so you all have the final say in what goes on here, i'm just offering this up because i have it, and i could put it to good use for us.



Edit: Also - To the nay sayers, could you be so kind as to voice your opinions/concerns/reasons? I'm just curious about the reasons for NOT wanting, even if it's just something as simple as thinking it isn't really necessary or something.