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  I have been reading a lot about ea and tried a few but have not managed to find any that work, has anyone here found any that actually work as advertised?
  Interesting topic, as i seem to think that the good EA's are never given out to the public, its only the useless ones that are put up for sale.
  A very short post. I was experimenting with whether I might be able to use the PeerFinder class for an app running on HoloLens to find and connect to an instance of the same app running on another HoloLens. I didn’t spot it in the list of APIs that have limitations here so I gave it a whirl with this piece of code;
  and you can see from the debugger there that running on the device seems to suggest that the SupportedDiscoveryTypes on the device is returning None so I assume that this means that the API isn’t going to work.
  In the meantime, I’m going to look to a different mechanism via which one ‘peer’ might find another with the minimal of pre-configuration.
  Tags: cards, eros, february, girlfriends, good things, Holidays, love, roses, space dandy, valentine's day, valentines
  There has been quite enough silliness on this thread in the past decade or so! In fact, this thread has long since passed all tolerable bounds of silliness!
  This thread is now declared null and void. It shall cease to be. It shall join the choir invisible, be consigned to the crypt, and be crossed off the pages of the Book Of Life. No one else shall post upon it, not for any reason whatsoever! Is that clear???
  This is Colonel-General Field Marshal Gloriana Hapsburg-Battenburg-Tudor, VC, MOH, DSC, CCG, LOH, CdG, DFC, CVC, and all the rest of that.
  Now, you piece of poof. You are a disgrace to whatever regiment of sods you belong to!! You obviously do not know Tradition nor do you respect anything except your own pomposity.
  You WILL NOW drop and give me 125 one-handed pushups. If you like, I will race you to completion. Do it NOW!
  Sergeant-Major. You will listen to me. This thread WILL continue. It is Tradition. It is threads such as this that made the Empire and now holds the entire Free World together as a family. YOU have no authority over this thread or any other thread. Do you understand me, maggot???
  GfS, why are you posting legitimate music conversation here in this thread? Start one above the line and alert more people to this singer-songwriter. Then it won't get trampled by imaginary members of the Raj.
  P'raps we should open a keg, which would attract the Legion down here in short order, and a box of Al-Po to draw in Gluon, and contrive to whirl these misfit sojers into a time-warp open to some other universe.
  Yes, you certainly have been underestimating Chongo, my good man, and I fear that one day you will regret it.
  "The apes were presented with two banana pieces: a smaller one, which was always reliably in the same place, and a larger one, which was hidden under one of multiple cups, and therefore the riskier choice."
  "The researchers also found that the apes went for the larger piece –and risked getting nothing at all – no less than 50% of the time. This risky decision-making increased to nearly 100% when the size difference between the two banana pieces was largest."
  Doesn't anyone else see at least TWO things wrong with that? You can SNIFF out one at least. Sounds like hokum to me.
  Silly River Sage: "GfS, why are you posting legitimate music conversation here in this thread? Start one above the line and alert more people to this singer-songwriter. Then it won't get trampled by imaginary members of the Raj."
  The CGFM (I get the last two letters mixed up sometimes) is the Commander-In-Chief and Grand Exhausted Ruler Plenipotentiary And Exemplary of the Idaho Legion. She is probably the most decorated veteran I've ever met: sometimes her entire front half will pitch her forward, just from the weight of the medals. Every time this happens she catches herself on the hands and does 100 pushups using only her fingertips for ground contact (well, her toes too). She was once attacked by an angry, mouth-frothing grizzly bear (she was petting one of the cubs) and the bear went into submission when she only looked at it. Afterwards the griz and the cubs followed the CGFM around like puppies and the CGFM would rub their tummies and tussle with them in play. It's said that she one defeated an entire battalion-sized unit of the Taliban with only a water pistol and a Girl Scout knife after parachuting in alone to rescue a bottle of SOCOM CIC's favorite Scotch; she successfully completed her mission by traveling 400 miles through enemy-held territory, eating nothing but ants and termites and drinking nothing except the dew from tree leaves.
  I got DIBS on 43334. We'll be there soon and that number is very, very important to me. It has great sentimental value, and it actually changed my life for the better.
  We3l, no I don't. I have lots of other things, but not that. I merely repeat what the CGFM has done in her long career of open and/or clandestine services for various governments friendly to the US of A.
  Okay. I don't understand this because a big corporation is involved. Well, maybe I do: they may have started to get it through their corporate heads that prevention is better than hospitalization -- and cheaper for them. But here's what's happened.
  I picked up the mail today and there was what appeared to be junk mail from Humana, the company that manages our Medicare benefits and stuff like that. "Consumers Reports" gave Humana a straight-across-the-board "open circle" rating recently. Just so you know.
  Anyway, since I went into the local hospital on December 14 and stayed overnight, Humana's "Well Dine" program is sending me ten (10) nutritious frozen meals to help prevent my re-hospitalization due to poor nutrition (like Pat would permit that!).
  Okay. If this is so important, why aren't all health insurance plans doing it? We also don't pay for immunizations, mammograms, colonoscopies, or other preventive measures. I also have a free membership in the "Silver Sneakers" program, which allows me to unlimited visits to two local fitness centers and a slew of others such places around the country.
  THey can get you ten meals for maybe $25, and in one case out of 500 it will save them from someone submitting a $25,000 claim, perhaps?
  Guest from Sanity, it's simple. This is The Mother of all BS threads. You're coming in here and talking about music. Take it where it belongs!
  Amos, peel me a banana, please. You can hide it all over the room if you want, but I'll look for the pieces..
  Some how, I'm not sure what's wrong with that...maybe I just don't know what you mean..or why......Do you think it would be more appropriate to post about my mother?
  No, he works hard. He's more of a nose grinder. LH keeps his nose to the grindstone, his shoulder to the wheel. his hands to himself, and his snoopy eyes on the road ahead.
  Besides, we've discussed, yea, even posted, music and lyrics here. About 20,000 posts back we had a lovely discussion of dominant eighths and polyphonics in Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach's Piece for Mechanical Clock, H. 635, No. 11. Amos posts songs, SRS posts links to songs, even I have posted some of my favorite songs. Who could forget the "New Year's Eve Carol"?
  I know, music slips in, but the point is, if you bury a discussion about a performer you want people to notice in a thread with 43,000+ posts, it's never going to get noticed in here, forest-for-the-trees-style. If you're serious about discussing this performer, give him his own thread and people will notice that thread and respond to it. It's easy to understand, or don't you speak English as your first language, GfS? How does this smack of an axe to grind? It's a rare spurt of common sense in our silly thread.
  Your suggestion made perfect sense to me and it was perfectly clear to me that you were being polite and helpful. I had the same thought immediately. "Why here? Makes no sense."
  I was a marksman some years ago. I once put two slugs thru a plywood target at 100m. One hole. Them Ruskies know how to build a shotgun. No, no scope... vent and bead.
  Hehehee... Rap... I was waaay back on my 3wheeler. Beaver dam. Made it across about 100' with my knees on the seat. The old bikes could float. On the way back, about three hours later, the wind was strong. I drifted into the alders before getting to shore and the right rear wheel caught in. The bike lurched forward and I hit the shore in third gear. Arse over tea kettle. Bruised ribs. Cuts. Scrapes. BUT, far worse, my Baikal, still in the scabbard, was cracked at the pistol grip. I was nearly in tears. Got back to camp and taped my darlin up with duct tape. Took about 600 with the duct tape on her before I gave up huntin.
  If some of you folks here spent more time worrying about your elegant coiffures than about GfS's posts, you might yet make the cover of "Vogue" or "People Magazine". ;-)
  It's a holiday, I decided to be polite rather than blow GfS's ass out of the water. Clearly the rest of you don't appreciate the gesture. Next time, I guess he gets it between the eyes. Gnu, I am fully aware of his tendencies toward ass-holery.
  I don't think I'll stay awake till New Year's, in my time zone at least. Except that fireworks might bother the dogs, so I'll keep an ear out for that, I'd just head for bed. In 30 minutes it'll be 2012 in New York City. Close enough for me. :-)
  Peace on Mom's house. We stand here on the first stepping stone of a year of promise, hope, some repair to economies, perhaps a drachm of common sanity in the halls of power, and who knows what wonders yet to unfold?
  Turn of your television, throw away the newspaper, shut down the computer, and find yourself in the world, connect by delicate, scintillating threads to all the good people in the world who know and admire you.
  Amazing, it is 2012, and I am still writing "B.C." on my checks. Actually that's not true, I don't write checks. But I am still signing my credit card slips with the identity I had back in WW I. No-one seems to have noticed.
  Well, gnu, I know GfS directly (outside of Mudcat) and have never found him to have any ill intention to anyone. Have also found him to be friendly, really interesting to talk to, and genuinely very enthusiastic about music. People here are often reacting to GfS's banter when reading it as if they pictured him having a mean scowl or a nasty sneer on his face while he's typing it. He doesn't. His motives are being misjudged due to the fact that several people here have long since decided to make him a personal "enemy" of theirs (mainly due to political squabbles) and they therefore read everything he posts with their mind already made up on what kind of shithead they think he is...and they picture this very nasty person in their minds....a person who simply does not exist!
  That gets pretty silly. I question it. It's an overreaction to a preconciption which does not jibe with the actual reality of who GfS is.
  I realize that for those who have their minds made up already, nothing I say will ever make any difference, they won't change their minds no matter what, and I figure thare's nothing I can do about that, right? But that's how it stands.
  If any of us "regulars" posted a link to a music video (or anything else whatsoever really) on the MOABS, no one here would see any reason to object to it...because they do not treat each other the way they do GfS (the "outsider").
  Sounds like any small club anywhere to me. The familiar members get all kinds of slack...their banter is taken as banter...their links are not questioned. Visitors, specially some visitors, are regarded with suspicion. Their banter is taken as a personal attack of some kind on someone. Their links are scorned. Their character is questioned. Any attempt they make to defend their character is taken as further evidence of how rotten they are.
  Sort of like coming up before the Inquisition...only with far less serious consequences, fortunately, because people here are powerless to act on their dislike toward other people.
  I found the Biff Rose links quite interesting. I can't see any objection to having them on this thread.
  I think, LH, that we tend to prejudge because of past experiences. Martin Gibson comes to mind, as does Claymore. I don't see anything wrong with GfS; SRS might be right though, that his Biff Rose links would get better exposure above the salt. I rather enjoyed them.
  It's interesting that GfS is now firmly being identified as male, when for several years he promulgated the notion he was a mother. I mean, the child-bearing kind. Your personal defense, LH, is certainly more persuasive than his own rhetorical style.
  Anyway, the distinguishing feature with Claymore and Martin Gibson was primarily their extreme political partisanship which was at diametrical odds with the vast majority of people on this forum. In short, they were very much on the political Right.
  GfS is of a different stripe than that. GfS criticizes both the Republican and the Democratic parties with pretty much equal vehemence, seeing them both as working for the same corrupt entrenched interests (albeit while posing outwardly in an oppositional style toward one another and acting as if they were a viable opposite choice for the voters). GfS is not the classic rightwinger. GfS is an independently minded person who repudiates both of those 2 big parties which pose as "left" and "right" in the USA and says they're both phony baloney, and that the public is being manipulated by them in a perpetual "divide and conquer" scenario.
  I agree with that. I think, sadly, that much the same thing is happening in Canadian politics (with as many as 4 parties!) and in the UK politics (with 3 parties). No matter who the public votes for those 3 countries, their wars of choice continue, the bankers and the military industrial complex rule the roost, hidden taxes go up, the currency inflates, civil rights are legislated away, and the public loses out.
  Our political parties have all betrayed us, and they continue to betray us, because they've been bought by the highest bidders.
  I'm not suggesting "Don't vote". After all, one must still consider who is the best local or regional or national candidate in one's own estimation...out of a usually not very good lot. But I'm saying that our "democracies" have been eviscerated from within by the power of Big Money, and there's no obvious solution to the problem...given the fact that those who have been corrupted are not likely to change the rules and uncorrupt themselves once they're in office!
  Anyway, I'm basically on the Left, as you know...I always have been...and I do not see GfS as the classic Right winger at all. Hardly. GfS is an independently minded person who believes in neither the Right nor the Left as they are presently embodied in the major political parties in North America.
  I understand that. I feel the same way about it. I'm very, very tired of having to pick the "lesser of 2 evils" at election time, and I don't call that a democracy. I call it an Oligarchy...sort of like the liberals and conservatives were in the old Communist Party in Russia before the Soviet Union fell. They were the 2 ends of a corrupt order. I don't believe in self-serving Oligarchies run by a privileged elite.
  So I like GfS on 2 counts...basic personality on direct acquaintance...and a pretty good grasp of what the heck is going on with western party politics in the 21st Century.
  Before came on, I was thinking of something in response to what I was reading, and thought to myself, "Well I'm sure glad that political devotees, still think 'freedom of speech' fits into their political outlook, and their 'liberal(?) minds were still concerned about our basic rights...and exercising them wasn't such a violent affront to their 'sensibilities'"! ...then I came on, and read Little Hawk's post. I'm both flattered and humbled, that someone could explain it so clear........ahem(clears throat)...........in such limited space, I might add!
  My thrust is that musicians...true musicians, ...are a truly fortunate critter, that has a gift..a unique gift...not just 'bestowed' on just everyone..To nurture that gift, requires massive focus, and gratitude...of which deserves keeping your filters clear, to reach into that place from where beautiful sounds, and groups of sounds originate.
  In that place there is unity, harmony, expressions to and from the human soul to another, expressions of emotions, and the linking of emotions, and images..and timing.
  I find that real musicians, should be free, of the clutter that confuses so many, and so much our known reality!....and not infuse their consciousness, with the contradictory fraudulent claims of manipulators, who use those means of destroying the virtues that constitute compassion. It is that gift, and connection to the best of human virtues, that enables music to express that empathy, to our fellow man.
  But you can't do it, and bring peace, or express harmony...while the music has to work its way through bias, resentment and fear.
  I've been called a racist, bigot, progressive, Tea Partier, troll, Fascist, right-winger, homophobic, a man and a woman, on here(and I've noted the difference of attitude of those addressing of both),..and all the while, while attacking phony political dogma, been posting fucking wonderful music the whole way........
  It's always been about the music...the right wing and left wing are on the same old turkey.....no matter what kind of dressing.
  ...and Pee Ess: I've just completed some 'paperwork' and am a step clearer to to being free to posting some of my music on iTunes, and the like, and posting a 'You-Tuber'.....and you will see that you will be proud that your 'resident stranger' will also make 'Mudcat' the honored residence of such music. It takes people away! (especially if 'adjusted'..so I hear!)....
  Ya see, if I read something and it annoys me I'll just skip it. If it annoys me enough I might possibly post some little snippet of mild criticism that may imply that the poster is the product of defective genetics and is wanting in intellectual, moral, and hygienic areas as well as the sort who eat their own boogers. But mostly I just ignore them.
  But proceed with care, young GfS, for it is unwise to stand in the line of fire when Rapparree is making his Decisions. They are often mildly toxic and have been known to explode under the right conditions...
  I agree with everything said re GfS but if I had affronted someone incorrectly, I would apologize for my misunderstanding. I've even apologized when I wasn't wrong... mostly to my old man... got my ass kicked for that too.
  Heheheee... minds me a the time were were putting the Xmas decorations away. I was about 12 and I inadvertently tipped the box I was carrying and a package of decorations on top of that box slipped off when I made a quick turn in the basement. Without warning, he booted me in the arse for being careless and I dropped the rest of the stuff. Ya know what the old glass bulbs sound like when the break eh? Ya know what the footsteps of a 12 year old on the run sound like eh?
  I was scared shitless. I heard him come up the stairs. I heard his footsteps come closer to my bedroom. He walked in and said, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that." I was dumbstruck. But I kept my eyes peeled for the next few days and never got too close.
  Only dawned on me many years later... he was gonna hafta explain the broken bulbs to Mum... hehehhee.
  OH! Yeah! We're eating supper in the kitchen. The ooold string on the pic above the fireplace in the living room let go. The pic hit the Black Forest 400 day clock on the mantle and knocked it onto the tiled hearth apron upside downey. The glass globe smashed and the spire (?) on the top of the clock stuck in the ceramic tile. It was an odd sight as we stood in the living room piecing the situation together. I looked at the old man and said, "It wasn't me.".... stooopid move on my part. It was too soon after the ceramic swan incident. I shoulda just told the truth insteada gluing it back together and trying to get away with it.