Hello Kraz,

Was wondering if there is any chance you guys might develop some sort of foreign function interface for AssistUO.  Or maybe there already is one and I've missed it.  Thanks.

Might check out this app (maybe the dev wants to support another device):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.postram.winulator&feature=related_apps

Might try commenting out the following lines in both sub grab and sub loot:

event property #FINDID
if remains in #PROPERTY
{
ignoreitem #FINDID
return
}

Ran across his blog in the past; can vouch that he's a very entertaining/informative writer.  I'm no chemist but I do try to stay somewhat read in the field, if only for cocktail party banter (sister-in-law is ex-Pfizer and her husband is an organic chemist).  He also was blogging about the impact of 'big data' on his field way before it became the buzzword du jour.

I don't know what these companies are thinking.  First my rant was with Gnome3, but then Microsoft comes out and creates what many people are calling the worst blunder in OSes since Windows ME or Vista

MS is trying to do all the wrong things with this OS.  Picked up a Sony VAIO Tap 20 for my wife and daughter over xmas to replace her aging laptop. HW shortfalls aside (should support 1920x1080, have HDMI in, an eSATA port, more RAM), the idea of the thing would be great, except for Winblows 8.  This doesn't deter my wife; she's happy because she can lug the thing all over the house sans keyboard/mouse and my three year old can now operate a lot of things autonomously thanks to the touch screen (not being much of a precision mouse driver yet).

However, in the name of unifying their 'user experience' across platforms, they've shot themselves in the foot in the only market where they maintain dominance, the desktop pc.  If anything, Windows 8 is 'inside out'; all the touch crap should be an alternative gui mode invoked by swiping on a touch screen, otherwise out of sight. Their glorious tiled main desktop should be, well, just another app.  Touch/gesture interpretation and feedback settings should be available for all apps and users (perhaps this is the case however I haven't found any low level tweaks).  Meanwhile the tablet market is owned by ios and android, same with smartphones and MS goes and alienates their last remaining user base (ignoring the xbox for the moment).  Brilliant.

The most irritating things to get past was figuring out the modal side menu, originally finding how to bring up the desktop with a mouse when in a modal app, and adding a shortcut to the 'legacy' desktop for the start/programs directory (since there is no longer a friggin' start menu).  The thing I still don't like is having to figure out how to set/force each app to behave like a normal desktop app and not go all full-screen/modal/touchscreen retard.  And the 'clean' touch interface causes lots of other useless activity in the way of extra clicking in order to get at buried options in dialogs.  Was all this fluff really necessary just to get rid of the awful legacy visual control styles they adopted way back when?  While touch support is great to have for hardware that supports it, the rest of the gui was just a poor excuse to move up a version number.  I won't be putting Win 8 on anything else around here unless 7 disappears.

Why was this (and the Surface) such a bad idea by MS, aside from the fact that no one needs 20" diagonal file save dialog? Because hardware prices are falling off a cliff.  I could have bought several Android tablets for the price of a single copy of W8.  Basically their model for OS revenue is gone; they've been discounting Windows 8 Pro upgrades to try to boost adoption in face of this. Surface directly competes with other tablet manufacturers, rots o' ruck that they'll willingly adopt 8.  With all that in mind, I suspect fewer developers are going to look at this as their primary target platform.  More will look to things like Unity to get away from platform lock-in, I know I am.

What 12TO just posted.  Most people expect brand loyalty to be rewarded somehow, however a lot of companies these days exploit it in a counterintuitive fashion, basically their line of reasoning goes something like "hey this fool bought our last spiel, let's see what else we can get away with this time around".  Meanwhile the best offers go to potential new clients to entice them into the process.  The old trick of rotating through providers is getting neutered as well, as they build up databases, offers get 'customized' so unless you subvert their system you won't even know what's being offered to someone else, in effect the pricing has become opaque to the consumer.

Used to have USAA insurance, and they were hands down the lowest price for good vehicle insurance.  However early in the 00's their home coverage rates became very uncompetitive (they had huge hurricane losses to recuperate), so switched to Allstate.  Also discovered then that in a number of states, these insurance companies access your credit history, which could lead to a much higher premium.

Whatever company you go with, be sure to incorporate adequate uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage into your policy.  Nothing like being involved in an accident that is some deadbeat's fault who isn't covered.

Shortage of ammo will be the downfall of pro gun people in case of widespread anarchy.

Primers are only thing really necessary to stockpile for reloading purposes.  I probably have over 40k just sitting on the shelf.

Let's see guns ...

model 12 y-series 12 gauge
citori 12 gauge
m1a .308
ruger 10/22 .22 lr
p13-45 .45 acp
hs victor .22 lr
challenger .22 lr
mauser model hsc .380 acp
single action army .45 colt
police positive special .38 special
1917 lugar 9x19mm
...

lots of hand-me-downs.  Relatives make me look like a piker.

So what your saying is your emulator is too smart ...   We need a dumber emulator. ??!! 

Har! If the emulator was so 'smart', it would behave exactly like easyuo and catch issues.  It ain't.  The 'right' way to create a parser/emulator would be to start with a formal language spec and use something like lex/yacc to generate the guts of the code.  Not being brainy enough to create an accurate formal language spec for easyuo, or a lua-emitting version of lex/yacc, my emulator is coded the evil way~ by hand.