500px Terms of Service

First became aware of 500px from the medium article (https://medium.com/@samson_hu/building-analytics-at-500px-92e9a7005c83) Building Analytics at 500px. Perusing their website I found a beautifully crafted webpage which I think exemplifies all that I want from an internet company or any business in particular.
https://500px.com/terms

Screenshot 2nd July 2015 - 11AM EST

Remembering Type I and II Errors

Kind of ruins the point Lift

 

 It kind of ruins the point Lift when your app fails people who really need it. Like this reluctant-to-update blogger.

Solving Papers Please OpenGL problems

Recently, I've been attempting to try out Papers, Please a puzzle videogame placing you as a border inspector in a fictional eastern bloc country. Recently I upgraded to windows 8.1, and had assumed everything had ran smoothly during the upgrade. I haven't played games of any kind for a half year and was presently surprised when Papers, Please spat out an error that it couldn't locate OpenGL.
Hmm, I thought I'd at least have the latest drivers for my AMD card....
It would seem that Microsoft reverted me to it's own driver for my graphics card, with no support for OpenGL. After fumbling around, I finally realized my stupidity and fixed the problem after a week.

First off, initiate a download for the latest driver for your card: As of today for AMD that would be here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows%208%20-%2064

Update(5;April;2015){
I've included a link to the actual driver in case the AMD link above stops working:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B85sPWnfQCJLSmpISTBTWnBHa3M/view?usp=sharing
}

You'll obviously have to uninstall the defective auto windows dirver (right click on My Computer then select Device Manager):

Check the little checkbox that will come up:

Once your screen stops jumping hula hoops, you'll want to install the AMD driver that you recently downloaded (make note of where the installer extracts its data usually on to a folder AMD on your C drive).

I had the extra step of having to go to Device Manager and refreshing it to show any hardware changes. I right clicked my driver and selected Update Driver Software and selected Browse my computer for driver software. Browse to the location I made you take note of and windows should take it from there.

If you need any clarification on instructions, please leave a comment below.

And help support the Humble Bundle by purchasing Papers, Please yourself and giving it a try:
Humble Bundle - Papers Please

Sources:
Papers, Please
http://www.eightforums.com/graphic-cards/34538-ati-radeon-hd4550-opengl-2-win-8-1-a-3.html

PGP Keys for Secure Contact

Contact Information as of Thursday, December 5, 2013
thomasrive@gmail.com

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Google+ photo vs Facebook photo upload limit

I was reminded of the work Google+ still has to do before it can match Facebook feature to feature, most notably for me in the photo uploads feature. Google+ currently scales back my iPhone uploads down to 2048 x 2048 pixels, when the camera takes photos at 3,264 x 2,448 pixels. Although it's the thought and content of the photo that counts, I am dissapointed in the drop in quality in order to store photos. Facebook offers this free service for all photos in all sizes, mostly because of it's business model of collecting as much information from you as possible. So for now i've switched to upload the originals to Evernote for long term storage and using Google+ for photo sharing. But what a world it would be if Google+ could do both.

Evernote Windows 8 Solution

For those having problems with the new windows 8 Evernote app, you can simply fall back to the standard windows evernote client. In fact this little solution applies for basically any app that has a less than functional windows 8 app, except for situations where a driver needs to be installed manually because it hasn't been certified for windows 8 yet