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I mean, maybe.
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FallingShit said:
aaronjer said:
Think of it this way: If you fuck up, we'll all make fun of you, and think less of you forever.

Such encouraging words...

Don't listen to him, we probably won't care.
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Shit's hard. I'll look out for the e-mails though!

SRAW I would give subadar moneys if I could. Small, round, shiny ones.
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Is this the same SethBling that did a whole bunch of Minceraft stuff?
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I wanna say I am already subscribed to you but a thingy on the site would be cool! Sadly, I think your stream times will be somewhat out of sync with me. But I can supply Twitch spam on demand :D
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witwix is super hype. And yes, the poketwitch hackery was super cool.
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Actually, there are speedruns of this game that only take about 15-20 minutes. It seems fun, but I've not picked it up. The temptation is there.

I played Blood Dragon on the hardest difficulty available, it was still pretty easy. As far as I can tell, they are not meant to be hard. They're meant to be "I AM A GOD" fun. Molotovs et al are fun :p
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Turns out it's really easy. I don't know what happens if you try to log in when logged in, though.
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What I will do, is follow your channel. I will do this soon.
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What really annoys me is that automake and friends will correctly build your software on systems from like 15 years ago and more that nobody ever uses. Those things have way too much backwards compatibility. Do you ever check the scripts? They check how sane the C compiler is by compiling hello world. It's super annoying. Somewhere out there, there is the perfect build system. It might be D's. It might be ninja.
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m4 is really unpleasant to use, but if a project uses GNU autotools, then it uses m4. the autotools themselves are awful.
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Too many things use m4, it's a pretty bad time.
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Damn non-stacking bonuses.
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Ah yes, there are a couple of folks at work with that style. Don't necessarily see the appeal myself :p

Which is to say I'm sure there is one, but I don't know that I have a problem with typing the way I do currently. /phrasing
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I recently bought a Ducky keyboard for work, Cherry Browns as well. Surprisingly difficult to find any Ducky keyboards in the UK at the moment, particularly the browns! Do you mean one of the split style keyboards? I'm not sure I could ever use one of them. I know a couple of people that do, though.
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Jealous. That looks like a nice keyboard.
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Legit-est. I'd probably watch that.
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That's an album I should listen to again. It has been many years.
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NatureJay said:
Tarn Adams is an American hero.
Quote:
mystery babies appearing all over the place

This game is perfection
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Guy sounds like a champion. I kind of want Bear Fortress now...
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Army of grizzlies: make it happen. They will be your military. Have them train by chasing the children. Two problems solves at once!
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Good to know. Carry on.
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Halo speedrun was super legit. I might have said this in this thread already. The HL2 one was good fun, there was stuff in there I don't remember seeing in the segmented run I saw a while back, was very cool how much he explained. Portal race was... eh. I didn't like it. Similarly the Portal 2 run was really impressive, but not quite as hype. Not sure why.
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professorHAMM said:
I hope you guys picked up on my trolling -_-

What's trolling?
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I'm going to watch some football with friends, so I guess I will have to watch the Half-Life and portal stuff as a VoD. Super hyped for it though.
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Perhaps you are STD
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Super Meat Boy was Super Hype.
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There's a new version out/coming out, isn't there?
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Isn't it in the same folder?
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Ghaith1 said:
Howto Fix: Check the file ZHLTProblems.html for a detailed explanation of this problem

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Well, it says the file isn't there. So, probably you need to put it in that location, or you need to change the path that is there (it looks like it's missing a C:\ to me).
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Fish and chips is the shit, ask for it breaded. Consider trying a deep fried mars bar too. Breakfasts are awesome, really helps of you can get a hold of a muffin. White pudding is great though I am having difficulty finding it.
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SuperJer said:
Guys... Guys. It's not slander or libel unless I'm lying. Why do you think I'm lying exactly?

Yeah sorry I meant that it would be libel if, you know, you were lying.

Though, in personal communication, I heard SJ talk about how he was totally going to stiff these guys by lying about it on his website.

/that might not be true
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SRAW said:
Surely this would count as slander?

If anything, it'd be libellous, but I'd be surprised if anyone managed to get this near a court.
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10/10, would read review again. Probably would not go to restaurant.
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SRAW said:
It's not like creative commons bullshit is even legally binding

SRAW you are an absolute champion, never change
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Seems relatively legit on my phone. I can't take pictures right now, sorry. I don't remember it being a huge problem before!
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I've heard. America, you so crazy
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This is such a strange concept for UK types - it's only for really big parties that they start paying attention to the gratuity, because staff can get stiffed a lot there.
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Flash is a ded tecnology, disqus
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Indulge me, please - what scenario are you only able to run the game in software in?
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It's almost as if you're using an engine that's like over 15 years old!
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Find the very first error in the file. Fixit fixit fixit

All other errors are basically meaningless after the first.
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I don't know what the miptex error is. Fixit fixit fixit
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Well, my guess is that one of the tools can't find a file from a previous stage of the compiling procedure. Fix that error.
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SRAW said:
DR suggested it by saying he would pay to subscribe to them on twitch (on the AGDQ channel it was $5 to get extra subscriber smileyes)

FINE, I meant follow. You're the worst.
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AGDQ was absolutely awesome this year. I should subscribe to you fine fellows on Twitch.
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It's strange to think that I have been at the SuperJers for as long as I've been at University.

The problem is that I'm no longer at University...
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Wingman of the century.
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At this stage, it might be worth messaging the developers directly, or perhaps posting on the Global Offensive subreddit?
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This is a really awesome video. Congratulations, and thank you for sharing.
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I could do with some Thrones, I need a new laspistol.
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The colour change was inside you all along!
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dicks dicks dicks
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Make some commemorative bottles!
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Well, don't forget the FUN, that might kill you too...
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Yes, the dwarf casually punches the kobold's lung, leaving it with no way to breathe... seems fine to me!

EDIT: also small giant cave spider? I am too drunk to understand...
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SRAW said:
And you're only faster than 95% of the UK? DAFUQ, so I guess we all can assume that Britain has the fastest commercial internet in the world...

I'm led to believe that it really isn't but it seems to do a funny weighting with the upload. Obviously 11 MB is nice, but I'm sure there are faster. But yes, the internet in the UK is actually pretty bad outside of cities...
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SuperJer said:
Wow, that's a lot of Mibblebits.

Mibibits.

Mybybittles?

I am not sure anyone knows, it is one of the mysteries of our time
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BOOM. Watching a stream at the same time, my flatmate says he hit 137.
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But none of them look as sexy as you!
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Combination of technology, drivers and Linux. Wireless speeds only go up to about 24 Mbits, unless you are on wireless N - that can go faster. I know this because my flatmate tested and got 100 +, but I'd like to try it myself (with a somewhat newer PC, though I am quite certain it won't make a difference).
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I tried it on my laptop, I got 20/11. This is basically due to the fact that the wireless drivers on my laptop limit it to 20 downstream. When I get my desktop in, I'll let you know.
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aaronjer said:
Well, there are dwarves in some minecraft mods.

Close enough I guess
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I now need a way to get it within a week. I see there is a Wii specific version on Amazon... hmm.

I've just closed this tab because my muscle memory is still used to Vim. This keeps happening.
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SuperJer said:
Yeah I thought it would be fun to make... it wasn't really.


But was totally worth it, right?
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I am moving into a new place shortly and I am led to believe we have very sexy internet. I will post posthaste when I actually get there.
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This fucking game man! Maybe one day someone will try to hook in a proper 3D viewer, or make an exporter for Minecraft or something.
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I have no such device. My parents won a Wii in a raffle though, I really should actually try to play the Pikmin games at some point. As an Xbox-owning scrub, I had Overlord, now that I'm on PC I have none (though I should probably just load Pikmin up on Dolphin emulator).
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NatureJay said:
glass serrated discs

Fuckin' love this game
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This looks like the best game. Please continue!
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Whatever happens, I am sure it will go awesomely wrong! How's the resources situation then? Are there nicer minerals lower down for you, too? Are you going to make a minecart shotgun (the only defence you need)?
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Sounds awesome, please post more! I will try Dwarf Fortress again, some day...
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That is literally going from the size of an MP3 song to the size of a slightly longer MP3 song. Well, once that's twice as long, but my point is that 6.5 MB is basically nothing.

Unless your internet is really bad, of course. But even mine is sitting at 500 KB/s
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I've played a little of Awesomenauts, recently. It's laggy as all hell and it doesn't recognise my controller properly.
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Smite will go the same way as Tribes: Ascend and Global Agenda, just sayin'
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molkman said:
Oh AaronJurr, never leave. <3

Somebody tell me what to get from steam summer sale. I can't think of what to grab there.

EVERYTHING, EMPTY YOUR WALLET

Also, shameless flattery will get you nothing, but it is appreciated. I mean it's working it's just that there is literally nothing I can give you.
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Well your abilities of spelling and grammar have increased substantially, which I can only attribute to time spent away from the internet.
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It probably makes sense, geometrically.
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It's pretty simple, same as the last time you asked. You have an expression for each of the vectors, dot them together. You will find that you have four terms in the expansion because it's the FOIL rule (as you might have been taught). You know, (x + y)(x - y) = x^2 + xy - xy - y^2. It's the antisymmetric one. So you get that, do some simplification, and it could be that it comes out to zero. If you remember that any two vectors whose dot product is zero are orthogonal to each other, well, you've solved it!
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Yes, the calculation is independent of the size of the vector. If you think about it, it has to be! See if you can work out why (and how it works) :)
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How much trigonometry do you know? You need to create a component of velocity exactly equal to the velocity of the wind, but opposite. If I could be bothered I'd draw a picture.

Drawing pictures always helps.

Also, THIS was your best hope for getting maths help?!
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In before:

aaronjer said:
I get that same feeling with your mom.


But yes, it annoys me that the candyfloss doesn't quite reattach. I think I have a problem.
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I am ever so slightly disappointed that that GIF doesn't show just a little bit more, you know?
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Three years ago this might have been useful.
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Read the FAQ, post your compile log
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Basically, #include <header.h> will look in standard OS locations for header files. Like, I dunno, gcc's install directory, Visual Studio's defined header locations, whatever. It will also look in the locations you pass to the compiler, probably with a flag like -I"../path/to/hedders". This is why the compiler can't find it.

You actually want #include "header.h", which will look in the current directory (or as superjer notes you can pass a relative path in there, if that's what turns you on).

So to clarify: #include "BlackThornDemon.h". What kind of header file has that name anyway? :s

There's more, you probably want #include <Arduino.h> but that seems to be working regardless, also you will need #include "../BlackThornDemon.h", just like superjer said. When it tells you it can't find the file, there's a reason. It's because it's not where it's looking! And I tend to trust the computer when it says it can't find it.
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SuperJer said:
I don't know what the hell this discussion is doing on my forams.

Confusing internet historians of the future.
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Exactly! I think. I wouldn't say it was wrong, so much as it is... a model, that, although not true, is accurate. Y'know what I am going to bed, because I think I have said the same thing several times now. I am, in fact, saying the same thing as 18 months ago. I've read through the thread. I'm an insufferable prick :(
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Not getting it is fine. The concept of a minimum temperature is a quantum effect, somewhat to do with the fact that a particle with zero temperature would have zero energy which would imply several things, all of which are infinite. We don't like infinite, as a general rule.

The CMBR has a temperature, it's about 3K. I think. That is not what Aaronjer is talking about. (Also, re: /sarcasm: I misinterpreted )

Fun fact! The hottest and coldest places in our solar system exist on none other than our planet! That's cool. Also, the average density of the universe is approximately one hydrogen atom per cubic meter, which is to say some 10^24 less dense than air at STP. You can safely conclude, therefore, that anybody you meet is a statistical anomaly.

Aaronjer, you might want to look at the Michelson-Morely experiment, it is very interesting. As regards a variable speed of light... there is a theory which suggests that actually mid sentence I have decided I am thinking of the wrong thing. Never mind!

zjamz: the experiment came first, kind of. A similar one did anyway. This necessitated new theory, not the other way around. The experimental result is all the proof you need that it happens, because, well, it does. This isn't the same as saying that the experiment proves the theory, because it only does not disprove it; however given the large body of experimental evidence so far acquired for QM it is held as accurate and correct by the vast majority of scientists. It is as accurate and precise as a measurement of the distance from New Yoik to London differing from the "true" value by the width of a human hair.


This final edit is somewhat my own opinion, but whatever.
It doesn't really matter, in the end, what is "really happening" in these experiments. All we can do is experiment -> measurement -> theory -> test -> refine, endlessly. There is a theory in which you can treat sound moving through solids as a particle, called a phonon. Now, we know that it ain't true. It's atoms vibrating. But it doesn't mean that this phonon cannot have a mass, a velocity, energy, and so on. And using this phonon theory you can predict very well the movement of sound through a solid. The model works - that is all we can ask of it. Anyways, as I said that's the way I see things. I've actually pretty much stopped doing science now, I graduated last summer and have moved onto a postgrad in high performance computing instead, so my thoughts are not necessarily the most coherent, accurate or indeed correct.

/walloftext
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Perhaps I am misinterpreting, but what I meant is that experiment is the ultimate arbiter. You experiment, you make a theory that explains the experiment, maybe it makes a prediction you can test. Great. Anything else is masturbation. Saying that the experiment was an attempt at proof... well, it is what happens. Explaining it is the tricky bit.

At the moment, we are sort of in the "prediction" stage. Though it is expected, or rather hoped, that this will change soon. Say the next 20 years.

Also I have a bit of a problem with the universe, it has chosen some really shitty constraints. Like a speed limit that is not on the same scale as the distance scales of the universe, what the hell physics. Same with Planck's constant: 0 would be great, or a big number would be cool too. Turns out it's just really small. BO-RING.
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SRAW said:
and also when these scientists talk about models of electrons and atoms and whatever etc... does that mean that we may not know the true nature of them, but that these models simply describe how they behave?

That's all models are. Models. You can discuss what might "really" be happening, but when it comes down to it you have a model and an experiment. If the model predicts the outcome of the experiment, what else can you do?

That said, various folks have suggested ideas for what might be "actually happening" (a phrase I am not entirely comfortable with). You might be interested in the Many Worlds interpretation, the Copenhagen interpretation, Feynman's sum-over-histories interpretation... There are lots. Quantum mechanics is only concerned with the fact that things like subatomic particles electrons and protons etc. are not necessarily waves, nor are they necessarily particles. They can appear to have some of the properties of both, depending on how you observe them, but ultimately they are neither.

They key point in all this is that the double-slit experiment is weird if you think an electron (or indeed a photon) is a particle. If you assume it's a wave, whatever that might mean, there's no problem! Of course if you then go do a different experiment involving gold foil and a monochromatic source of light (the Photoelectric Effect) then you have to assume that photons are actually particles. As I said, it's weird if you assume they are one or the other. Thinking of it as some third thing with properties of both is better.

phoenix_r said:
There is no real definitive proof that they exist in all states, hence it being a theory; the slit experiment attempts to add some proof.

AAAAAAARRGHHH that is a horrid sentence, pls no
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That GIF has too many frames. Too many.
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Well, I was going to suggest something like UT. But nobody plays UT and the other big games of the moment have no available tools, so... pretty much it's Valve.
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It's true. I ended up accidentally sexing Liara in Mass Effect, because I was trying to romance Kaidan but... This is coming out wrong. I was talking to Liara about how her species does shaggin' because I was playing my Shepard as "interested in everything" type, like science and things, but apparently Liara took it the wrong way and got a bit hot... anyway, next time I talked to Kaidan (literally went from one conversation to the next) he refused to talk to me about the romance-dance because I'd talked to Liara about it.

Long story short, the guy has blatantly bugged my clothes and was listening to my conversations.

Did you ever play Jade Empire? Have I asked you this before? What do you think of the mechanics of Fire Emblem?

Also my post sounds like I didn't read yours but I did, you have many valid points. I guess it's a symptom of making things game-y. Like, getting players to form relationships with NPCs involves having them spend time together, spending time implies doing things, doing things is basically large-scale murder, so you get the situation as is. Kind of. That's not to say it shouldn't change, I'd love to see a first person game where the most significant decision you make is firing a gun.
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You are making maps for a game which is now very old. The technology back then was not as capable. Not only are these old tools, they are old buggy tools. You're going to have issues. Also, follow the rules and you'll be mostly fine. Or map for a game which was released in the last 5 years.
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Having reread your post in a similar late-night frame of mind, I'd have to say I think I was going for the attention to detail thing. Which is pretty cool, to be honest. I'm not sure I can actually think of any decent relationship examples in games, beyond the standard "but Bioware" comment. Though their solution essentially amounts to you talking to the person/object of interest until they submit.

Maybe it is time for something new.

Also, by the way... that title. "Dead Kings". It's really evocative :)
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I somewhat meant in terms of depth, or something. Actually I can't really remember what I meant, it was very late, or very early, depending on reference frame.

It's been a bad week.
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You have good ideas. Is this like the next Dwarf Fortress?
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buq25 said:
First now after I stopped playing did I realize what to do with the lighter. Don't really feel like playing through it again just for that though.

Yeah, same here really. I might do it at some stage, as it is funny, but Tim only has little legs :(
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I should try this out. I'll be back next to my glorious machinen sometime after Thursday. I've started queuing matchmaking with my flatmate, I am hilariously bad.
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I knew I'd see this before! Rock, Paper Shotgun did a thing about you guys.

Sweet game :)
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That's quite the namedrop :)
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The answer is essentially the same as always - more magma.

Seriously though, does magma sufficiently destroy bodyparts?
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Thine link is broken
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Outcast said:
Put your dick in there and see what happens.
I did actually think it was a fleshlight. Like a metallic one.
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No, asshole
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I confess that I have not looked at a lot to do with Windows 8. I had no interest in buying it as Windows 7 works fine for my desktop and I went full Linux on my laptop when I bought an SSD at Christmas. I installed Arch onto a flash drive this afternoon too so I can Linux on my desktop without partitioning. That and, you know, carrying a Linux install with you anywhere is pretty cool.

Essentially, from what I can see, everyone thinks it is too tablet-y. Is this a legitimate concern? I don't know, not having used it, but I know that my phone's interface by-and-large annoys me. I can't see that taking principles from small, touch-screen devices massively excites me.
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You're the best, superjer. But we knew that.
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We are just easily confused by change. It's like a reflex response now; when it goes to the main page I am confused and upset as well as a little frightened.

ETA: It's worth mentioning that I literally just clicked on the button there and ended at front page. What the hell.
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I'd simultaneously love and hate to see the code for this game.
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You can also copy the relevant files to a backup then copy them from that.
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Kelli said:
Oh wait, was this thread not about the PSP version of Tactics Ogre??

It was, carry on.
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Skyrim, you so broken. I loved the horse.
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NK TOO STRONG
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I've seen one map make a mirror of sorts by entirely replicating the room on the other side of some glass. There were doors which were triggered to open simultaneously.

If you were looking for mirrors which will reflect the player... tough.
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¿Por qué no los dos?

I've started a fort now, though it is little more than a hole-in-the-ground at the top of a hill.
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Leather troglodytes... on a manhole... covered in expensive hardwood spikes. Love this game.
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I have some work to hand in for tomorrow at 12. I've been doing it for the past week or so. After this, I will attempt Dwarf Fortress. It might not even end in failure like the last time :p
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Hall of traps? Oh, you should make the minecart shotgun! Messy, effective, hilarious. Like all good Dwarf Fortress contraptions. I don't really get the underlying mechanics of it, but it involves launching minecarts filled with heavy things (like gold bars) and sharp things (like swords and axes and what-have-you) at a low wall at high speed. Minecart hits wall, objects in minecart fly down long, specially-built tunnel ideally containing goblins. Reload, reset, wash away the manky bits, try again!
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I just want you to know that despite the fact that there's not a lot of feedback for your stories, they're freaking hilarious. Please keep posting them. Were this a Facebookalike I'd be liking, Reddit upvotes, Google +1s, Digg duggs, whatever.
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Oh, wait, it doesn't, it's like lots of generic stuff, and the question mark seems to mean that whatever that class is it must extend the one specified. I didn't know you could do that.
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That looks wrong. What are you doing?
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Learn git or mercurial, they are equally awesome. Make the repo online, then

git clone https://www.github.com/whatever/yourcode

*change code*

git commit -am "This is my first commit"

git push

And so on.
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Towering one-eyed weasel? Nice. One day, I will properly play Dwarf Fortress.

One day.
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fedex _ said:
sprinkles said:
Everyone knows 'aaatrigger' makes walls invisible, its a special texture.




yea i kno that , but i dont understand his problem ,

That's kind of the problem right there
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What I'm disappointed at is that nobody got my joke :(
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You can't deny, DotA is better.
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You should use the Ores API. I forget exactly what it's called, but there's a nice thing out there. Also, the thing with compressing graphite technically already exists in IndustrialCraft. You can create diamonds by doing something. I think it's compressing a lot of coal.
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Just read Wikipedia and have a play yourself. That's the best way to do it.
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FORTRAN is actually case insensitive, so you can call it FoRtRaN if you so please. Its IO is one of the most horrific things I have ever undertaken. It is physically painful. If you call a file .f and not .f90 then every line must start with 6 spaces or the character 'c' indicating that it is a comment. The parser is retarded. To work out the dependencies of a file, the compiler must look at the .mod file associated with a module. The .mod file is not created until you compile. But what if you don't want to compile until you know the dependencies? Tough!

They have attempted to make it backwards compatible so there have been no far-ranging and indeed really necessary changes to the language. Really, they should make a Fortran where all previous nonsense is ignored, swept under the carpet, whatever.

Everything is passed by reference, but there are no proper pointers. There are both subroutines and functions. Functions can return values, subroutines cannot. Functions can be pure, meaning they have no side effects, but they don't have to be.

This is possibly the most retarded, pants-on-head, why did you not CHANGE THIS CHRIST ALMIGHTY feature: unless you have a line at the top of your source file saying "implicit none", Fortran will assume any identifier you have not declared is a valid variable. Yes. If it starts with [ijklmn] it's of type integer, otherwise real. The only way in modern Fortran to discern between float and double is to say real(kind(some_variable)).

The reason I'm doing Fortran right now is because I am doing a Masters in High Performance Computing. It's pretty cool, we're learning GPU programming at the moment in one of the lectures (the Portland Group actually make a Fortran-CUDA compiler). I spend my time writing shitty parallel code and running said code on the 32nd largest computer in the world :D

Code sample:
FORTRAN code
!> Module for loading files consisting of arrays of ints and floats
!! representing land type and population densities.
module load
use grid
implicit none

!> Integer parameter, ideally a unique file identifier.
integer, parameter :: fileid = 222

contains
subroutine load_terrain(map_image, terrain)
integer, dimension(:,:), allocatable, intent(out) :: terrain
integer :: M, N
character(30) map_image, string_format
open(unit = fileid, file = map_image)
read(fileid, *) M, N
! Write map width into format string, so we know how many ints to read.
write(string_format, '(''('', i4, ''(i1,1x))'')') M
allocate(terrain(M,N))
! Contains an implicit loop to read N lines from the file, but is nice
! and compact.
read(fileid, string_format) terrain
close(fileid)
end subroutine load_terrain
end module load


After this project, never again. Unless I have to.
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Not a bad article. Not even particularly wrong, either :)

I like D. I got the book a few months ago and while I've not the time to write in it yet, I'm looking forward to the opportunity.

Mostly for the past few weeks I've been doing variants of C and C libraries with a considerable amount of Fortran thrown in there for fun.
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The example I was directly referencing was some teaching code for a course I did a couple of years ago - the code was for solving gravitational interactions for a few bodies in 2d in quite a nice general manner. The reason a setter was used was to make sure that when the (x,y) pair was changed anything that listened for it would know, in particular the canvas that was displaying this motion.

This makes it easy to add additional functionality, for example a logging system, because pretty much all you need to do is add it to the list of listeners.

I appreciate that it's often applied with little thought, in the best case your encapsulation should be strong enough that you don't have getters and setters for member variable because nobody needs to see them.
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The wolves didn't get it either.
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Much as supes is right with version control, I'm not sure that's the question you're asking. Version control is a way of creating a history for your software which reflects the total sum of changes made over its life. It is very useful. (Use mercurial)

As an addendum, I still disagree about the logging stuff. For instance, you can use a setter to make sure that all changes to a variable notify an event listener, if that's what you're into.
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Yes, dicking around with the CLASSPATH variable will do it. You could also make a "release" version of your classes, and place them in something like ~/Java/, but that's a tad extreme. Better just to add to your CLASSPATH such that you also include the root directory of your classes. You can also pass both the compiler and the runtime a switch like -cp IIRC which will change the path for that compilation.

I've been drinking, please complain if that doesn't make sense.
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Start again, I think something has gone VERY wrong. Make sure you follow the steps exactly.
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Mate de Vita said:
1) I'm currently making a package with a bunch of generally useful classes (like a calculator class, a line sorting class, etc.) neatly stored inside it - let's call it jackPackage.
Now what I want is that every time I write a Java class, no matter what project/package/folder it's in, I can just write import jackPackage (or java.jackPackage or something like that) and it will import this package (much like the standard packages such as java.lang or java.awt). Where do I have to put it and do I have to do something special to be able to do this?


The directory structure follows the packages, so when you have jPackage.MyClass, you folders would be jPackage/MyClass.java. (Watch for capitals - it might not like that).

Mate de Vita said:
2) Let's say I have a huge array of integers that I know will all be of values between 0 and 15. Is it possible to make the elements of this array 4-bit numbers so as to conserve space?
Is there perhaps a bit primitive type that would allow me to create my own class with an arbitrary number of bits to save a number (I know a byte primitive type exists, haven't seen mention of a bit one though)?


As well as ints there are bytes and shorts. Bytes are one byte, funnily, and shorts are two. Logically they will behave like this. Sadly, internally in most JVMs that I know of, they are stored like ints, so you do not gain anything from storing them as such. If I were going to do something involving the bit representation and so on, I'd use C or C++.



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3) Is there an advantage to defining getter and setter methods for an attribute over simply making said attribute public, provided that you want the attribute both readable and settable?

Well, say you want all changes to a certain member variable to be logged in a file. If you made it public, anyone could change it and you'd never know. OTOH if you have a public setter which goes like x = whatever; log("x = " + x); you'd be set. Those are the practical reasons, beyond that it's nice to hide functionality behind an unchanging API. What if the type of x changes internally? Those sorts of things.
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Superjer's comings are like the wind; mysterious and often badly predicted by the Met office.
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Sure, we can call Smite something different, like dropping the RTS part from LBMA-OTPGwRPGE. Simple!
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Is this the third person one coming out relatively soon? Looked cool, I guess, though I have just been sucked into DotA 2. Have you tried Super Monday Night Combat? Basically the same but very much less complicated, and most of the players on don't know how to play. Valve were talking about calling them ARTS, as in action RTS. I dunno, might as well call it LBMARTSwRPGE?
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The guy has a point. Doesn't fill me with confidence, I was wanting to run a small Linux install from a pen drive on this PC. Delivery's fucked though.
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I really rather suspect that the google is your friend. Do you ever try it?
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Follow the instructions for how to compile without Steam. Steam is another Valve product.
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So post the log again. We need as much information as possible!
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My dad's a big fan. He died quite young :(
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My bad.
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I do love me some irrational chiptune :)
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Sure...
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Don't be like that, she's totally three-phase!
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Rumours is great. My mother is a huge fan, this album is simply brilliant. I'm also a bit of a one for Paul Simon (as are my parents).
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Because there exists at least one animal.
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I try to avoid comments like that, but yes. Agreed.
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Oh I saw this a while back and it is amazing. They're both very talented.
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Surely they have more than one way to reactivate an account? Also, you might want to check your passwords. For instance, some websites don't use encryption to transmit their passwords when you log in, which means your data could be unsecure.
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I'm on Windows when I visit your site. Sadly, my laptop is poorly right now, as it has a case of the dead fan. So no I'm really not running the code :p
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Since you said you need the attns!
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Rockbomb said:
the_cloud_system said:
balls.

Oh, well now that you put it that way... I'm sure he'd probably be fine with it. But, I can't speak for anyone other than myself, so if you want an official answer you'll have to wait for the almighty Soopurjayhr himself to show up.

I don't see any reason that it'd be a problem though.

Perfect.
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Equilibrium is good!
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David Mitchell's a hero. You know he's engaged to Victoria Coren?
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See, I look at the picture of that guy in the first video, and I think "prick".
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SRAW said:
metallica > thin lizzy

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On the plus side, you only look slightly insane.
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Yeah, when I said malloc, I meant cmalloc. And you're right, I missed the semicolon because I wasn't trying to compile :p
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I think this is technically music: http://nyanwaits.com/
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I actually have that album as a playlist on Spotify, it's great for studying to :)
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I tried it a few years ago. The sabretooth lime is quite possibly the best thing ever.
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Ixtapa's a great tune.
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I like Inkscape, it's quite nice. Just nice software. Instagram are pretty interesting... I don't use it, but Facebook bought it for $1bn in cash and shares. That's not bad for a company that is all of 550ish days old. It also translates to about $35 per user... if, of course, you believe that Facebook is worth $100bn.
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Sweet!
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Personally, I think it was over more than three years ago. Just how far back did you look?

There are a lot of posters in this truck that don't turn up here any more :(
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Wait, so, the shell is real?
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If/when Superjer turns up I imagine he'll have some answers.
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Something tells me that blood ink would not work very well.

I had a dream a couple of nights ago where my mother and sister were playing minecraft. Odd.
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Check the next thread, it has some fairly good ideas.
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Did you post in the wrong thread?
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Check the compile log, it sounds like there's a warning, or something similar, that is making CS upset.
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Perhaps on a roll?
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main(){int i=-9;for(;i;printf("%d-",i++))}


I feel this is correct! It's not because it prints the fucker backwards and I'm going to bed :(

See if it involves more fancy bit twiddling, I'll be upset.

Bet it does.

Also, I assume we can't rely on the OS passing us zeroed memory as it typically does? Actually that's only if you malloc, it doesn't care about stack variables, right? Uff.
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So you've resparked my interest (at 3 am, you bas), and I'm not sure I'll ever get the answer. Because: can't change i--; one change is a solution and anything else is not an operator. Can't change the assignment, that's a two-character change. Can't change the assignment of i to anything useful (largest is 9). Can't change the type of loop (obviously). Can't change the loop boundaries (not that I think it would help). Can't change the thing it's printing to anything useful.

Ah...

Legit, you made me break out the pens. I want to say that changing the < to & will work, but it might actually print out 19 or 21 minus signs, I think. It's late! We want the pattern
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0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 &
1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1

That means i = -21, so there should be 21 minus signs printed. I am probably wrong somewhere so please let me know!
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Long trucks are like history. Or something. I might post a picture of something a friend of mine and myself made recently!
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I was probably referring to his one-time challenges in this subforum thingy. Never did get them.
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sprinkles said:
http://projecteuler.net/problem=2
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
...
}
}
}
// 2
// 2

That's worse than Java!
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I find it quite odd you've never heard of Tribes. Perhaps we should all shut up and play it, then come back with our thoughts (in fairness I'm probably not going to play it, for a variety of reasons).
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aaronjer said:
WTF are you talking about. TFC is not the earliest TF game.

Well, he's not talking about that, Mr Strawman.
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Was tribes an Unreal mod or a Quake mod originally? Wasn't even a mod, never mind then.
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Rockbomb said:
aaronjer said:
I don't even know what Tribes is.

It's Halo.

I suspect you're wrong, but I haven't played so Iunno.
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That's amazing. I'm going to rent one right the hell now!
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There are many. I can give examples of games running it - Mass Effect series, the Batman Arkham games, Gears of War, Borderlands, Bulletstorm, Dungeon Defenders and the Rainbow 6: Vegas games.
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And a little bit crusty by now :(
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Look up For and For Each to see if there's a behavioural difference between them. VB seems like a horrid language.
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Actually, I've not found it. I originally thought that having x(counter) = x(array) was the issue but as it turns out VB uses = for equality and assignment! Retarded! So I guess I'm going to have to look again.
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OH OH OH I got it! Right everyone, now begins the "find the bug" game. It's really cool.
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Yeah it was pseudocode. I have never used VB.NET so really I can't help you with actual syntax, only ideas. If you ever felt like using Python (which you really ought to someday, my supervisor has converted me) you can do stuff like that. So in short yes, perhaps your code does the right thing, but I am not sure.
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Something like for( i in array ) if array == int break; that would iterate over the array and when it finds a match, would stop, indicating that there is a match.
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Ha, lol. I think it is a little too simplistic to listen to repeatedly.
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Not to anyone but you and me apparently :p
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That's the one :)
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I am addicted all over again. I'm messing around with Equivalent Exchange. Has anyone else tried this wonderful collection?
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I feel quite pleased that I recognised all the Vim commands :)
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In fairness there is that bit in Half-Life where the water level rises in a sewer, I don't know how to do it though.
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Well, if it didn't recognise *any* whitespace, there'd be no difference between int x; and intx; and that's insane, so yeah. I get what you're saying though, you're thinking of that bit where it cares not for carriage returns (smart move in some ways).

C++ comes with a marginal overhead. Technically anything I've written in C is also valid C++, I'd imagine, because I've not used anything very funky, it's more that I don't really know the syntax for classes in C++ and I am not so hot on class constructors and destructors. In fact, it is a little project of mine to become more familiar with this over the summer, by rewriting that Perlin noise program I have. I will then make a little Python script to run it because Python is lovely :)
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Ummm, I think x = x++ is valid, I'd need to check the spec but I don't see why it shouldn't be unambiguous. C recognises the whitespace. As to what x is... Technically it can return anything. It could just crash and that is completely allowed. However, using gcc, I think you would get 13. The reason why is quite subtle and is essentially because no code will be produced for that fragment (it will just end up as a numeric literal, gcc will do the maths for you).
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Look for stuff about floats on altdevblogaday. It's great.

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int x = 5;
x = x++ + ++x;


This isn't valid C, why? What is the new value of x?
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Yeah, I'm being all over the place here. If you're lucky (unlucky) tomorrow I might draw a little diagram with what I am blethering about drawn on it. Sounds like you at least have an idea though.
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There was a thing ages back where AaronJer changed it from admin pupae to chrysalis to moth or something else. I said that I'd always wanted to be Firehouse Captain (awarded way back for 1024 posts) but I'd never been there. Before that I was Fuckhead, I think.
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OK, I realise I wasn't completely clear there; you probably got this but what I'm saying is that these are methods you should implement yourself, I do not know that they necessarily exist right now. Apologies.
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Just to say that I'm back from their concert and it was pretty awesome. Victree!
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Ok, that should be easy: have if(isOpened()) { calc.setFocus() } else { calc.open() } or something similar. isOpened() should return a boolean indicating whether the calculator has, in fact, been opened before. EDIT: it's requestFocus(), I think.
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Oh, I think I am misunderstanding you. Perhaps a more full description of what you're trying to do would help :) I have to confess, my knowledge of swing and all that nonsense is... Poor. I hate it actually, it is the single worst kind of programming, though I admit it feels nice when you have a sexy GUI. It's all kinds of pain though.
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In fairness 100 times that is quite a lot. In fact it's...

DEAR GOD IT IS NEAR 100 TIMES MORE. I hadn't thought of that.
Brought to you by mental nonsense.
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I was drunk when I wrote this, I'm sorry. Well, in that case you can have setVisible(false) and that sort of thing. Does that make sense to you?
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Mate de Vita said:
2) I'm making a simple program that starts as a window (JFrame) with 4 buttons (each of type MyButton). MyButton is a subclass of JButton with an ActionListener that opens a new window when the button is pressed, depending on what title was passed as the MyButton argument. E.g. if you click the button titled Calculator, it'll open a new window with a calculator (another JFrame window that I'll be creating later).

However, I want it to work so that if that window is already opened, it doesn't open another one, but simply activates the already opened window.

So a) how do I check if a window is already opened?
and b) how do I activate that window?
Also c) what exactly does it mean if something is "visible"? If I setVisible(false) a window, does it close or just become invisible?
And if I setVisible(false) a text field, does it deactivate (ie. you can't write anything into it anymore) or does it just become hidden?

3) Is there a way to remove content from a window? Ie. the opposite of add(element).

So, for the second bit I'd have a field called isOpen, which, when you press the button, is tested. Then you can make the decision whether to open a new window or not. I am not sure what you mean by activated. If you look at the Java API then you will see what setVisible(true) does; basically it stops it being displayed but does not "destroy" it.
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That's a fair bit of animating. In Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, they took 256 frames of animation for the prince at any given stage, and that's why it was so smooth.
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So do you do the changing perspective just by eye or are you using something to help with the hinting?
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That would be something like fixed point, though a better way to do it is to store for example 2 bytes of integer part and 2 bytes of fractional part. Or four of each, go crazy. You can actually implement this yourself if you feel up to it! Yeah, VB is stupid. I admit that initially using the thing that had meant exponentiation to be something different wasn't the best plan, but we're stuck with it now.

So floating point! Get to it!
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Yeah, you're missing the point of the operator. It's not the exponent, but the XOR as I said. Generally exponents are either ** or just a function call (Math.pow()) for example). Pretty crazy how it works though!

If you any further questions about it, please ask. I'd also like you to research floating point. How are floats *actually stored*?
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Who said anything about needing a computer to test? You can write it out by hand. Technically it's not legal C that I showed you; it is better to do
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a ^= b;
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a ^= b;


but in the end Sprinkles is correct and it flips the variables. I hope you didn't Google it...

As a next question, I dunno. Any requests for a particular area? I know Superjer knows lots.
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Looks exciting!

Speaking of shadows, Saints Row the Third stops rendering shadows when you enter a menu. I'm not sure why. Great work though!
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Rockbomb is right, a^=b is equivalent to a = a^b. As Sprinkles edited in, that is a bitwise XOR. So if we have binary numbers a = 0101 and b = 1100, a ^ b = 1001. Do you see what's going on? Basically it does an XOR (exclusive or) operation against the individual bits of the number. XOR returns true if the two operands are different ( 0 XOR 0 = 0, 1 XOR 0 = 1, etc.)

So given that can you tell me what this does?
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void f(int a, int b)
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Since I feel you ought to be learning things which you don't seem to be in this class, can you tell me the difference between ++x and x++?

EDIT: as in, I'm asking this like a teacher would.
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sprinkles said:
Down Rodeo said:
Ewww, vb.net. That's really nasty. These programs are funny :D

I couldn't imagine coding without brackets and semicolons. So unorganized. D:

I somewhat agree but Python's really nice.

Yes, I would comment everything. Make sure they're useful comments though;
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//increment x
x++;


is not considered clever.
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For counter1 As Integer = 10 To 1 Step -1
For counter2 As Integer = counter1 To 1 Step -1
TextBox1.AppendText("*")
Next
TextBox1.AppendText(vbCrLf)
Next


Ewww, vb.net. That's really nasty. These programs are funny :D
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What the hell is for...next?
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It's awesome.
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Is that not the song that is supposed to be kind of like what english sounds like to Italians?
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Oh my God that music at the end.
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Oh man. SRAW wants us to remain ontopic...
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I dunno, I reckon he's lost weight since the last picture.
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I thought nothing would make you switch away from DotA 2?
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Yes, it took me 5 hours to upload the noise images from last week. When I play Battlefield, my character appears to go back in time.
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It's called discourse.
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There's a massive difference in size. If you want proof, try it using my pictures from the "noise" thread. My point about MPEGs is that they use many of the same ideas and algorithms as JPEGs do. Broadly, certain key frames are encoded with JPEG, then the changes between successive frames are tracked. Honestly though, JPEGs have the bestest compression ratios for "complex" images. The tricky bit is defining complex, of course.
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Rockbomb said:
Down Rodeo said:

It's not a shit format, however it is completely unfit for purpose in this case. For text, PNG is all you need. Or, y'know, a link to the source. Because HTML is HyperTEXT, blah blah.


When would jpeg be the best format to use? I would think that in almost every case there's going to be a better choice you could use.

Pictures. The difference at anything above 85% quality is essentially unnoticeable. It can be instructive to take a high-quality lossless image then JPEG it and look at the difference between the two images. There's a slight afterimage, but really not much. It's a hugely clever algorithm too.

See the problem is, you can't use lossless everywhere. Eventually you will find a file that increases when "compressed".

Sprinkles: This one.

Edit for glory: if JPEG is essentially not the best choice, why are (basically) all videos MPEGs?
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Rockbomb said:
sprinkles said:
Down Rodeo said:
Also you have a picture of text. I'm not saying you made it but I can't read any of the small print. This is a bad thing.

EDIT: Jesus Christ it's a JPG. Who the hell even does that?!

Wha?

JPEG is a shit format, and the text in your image is too small/too compressed to read.

It's not a shit format, however it is completely unfit for purpose in this case. For text, PNG is all you need. Or, y'know, a link to the source. Because HTML is HyperTEXT, blah blah.
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This is a consideration. It's important to remember that Chrome has recently overtaken Firefox in terms of users; they have basically the same codecs supported. Also you have a picture of text. I'm not saying you made it but I can't read any of the small print. This is a bad thing.

EDIT: Jesus Christ it's a JPG. Who the hell even does that?!
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Actually, now that I think about it, there was this whole period where people would "like" five pages a day, and they'd be crap, and that doesn't happen any more... I assume it is because Facebook no longer tells you in the news feed. Good bloody thing, IMHO. Of course it might actually still happen, just not among mes amis.
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It's a shit page. I see these all the time and wonder.
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But then you are using some proprietary nonsense. HTML 5 is the new cool, use it. Additionally I told you no arguments about compatibility were allowed.
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No, use HTML5. Why the hell wouldn't you? (No arguments about non-supporting browsers allowed)
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HTML5 will provide. You can use the <video> tag and your choice of h.264, Ogg Vorbis and WebM.
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The most recent version has support for mixing between colours! Take a look. At the moment, the colours are hardcoded, but I will work on that sometime next week maybe.
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Happy to help. I should have realised there's an easy way to do it with altering the order of the indices.
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NatureJay said:
phoenix_r said:
I DON'T UNDERSTAND

SLOTH HAS BEEN POSTING PICTURES OF DINGALINGS ALL OVER THE FORAMS BUT HE DIDN'T SOURCE THEM EXTERNALLY FIRST AND NOW THE DINGALINGS ARE GOING AWAY

YOU ARE A FUNNY MAN
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I was going to screenshot this thread and rotate it then post the image, but that's more work than telling you to read the file into an array then index the bits you need and put that into a second array (because it is not an in-place transform).
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[0] [1] [2] In this setup, the numbers are the indexing
[3] [4] [5] variables for the array. Zero moves to two,
[6] [7] [8] etc. There will be some formula governing the
transform but you can work that out :)
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You're right, that is good
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I think we should teach you spelling and grammar. Also your name should be Branndexx _
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I'll declare the ints where I like. And I refuse to use a standard that's about as old as I am.
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I used pgm because it is braindead-simple. They look like this:
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PX //X is a number 1-6, depending on type: monotone, greyscale, colour and ASCII/binary
xsize ysize if it's binary
maximum intensity (say, 255)
from now, data. One line per line of image, if it's ASCII, otherwise it's a big lump of binary.

Oh yeah, each thing is a char. Including each channel for colour images. Whatever, it's really simple. The stuff I've not posted here yet is slightly different again so you might want to update.
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I actually have no idea how to make programs like this work in Windows. I'd have thought there would be some sort of console app configuration or something similar, but there you go. Also you'll need to link the math library. What kind of errors does it spit up?
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Well yes, I get that. It's more... how do I structure my program intelligently such that I can use a file to configure the program? I've done quite a bit of file IO in Java, and a small amount in C. But I always feel that saying something along the lines of "look for parameter -> save into variable -> find code path" is a bit... inefficient. And I always seem to find that either lots of code is duplicated or there are if statements EVERYWHERE. And that is definitely inefficient.
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Rockbomb said:
What language are you doing this in?
If it's C++, I could prolly make something in VB.NET for it.


C. Moreover, C on GNU/Linux. GUIs are by and large pointless, it is much easier to fire all the data into a file, read it and run it.

sprinkles said:
Are you going to make it move like in the last video of that page?


Ideally. But it will require some more smarts that I am not sure I currently own. Neither do I have the time for that, of course. But I'll do a little more work on the colours.
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Rockbomb said:
you should make a GUI at some point

Fuck off! You should make a GUI. I'd be impressed if you could write one that was worth the complexity! :p

Apart from anything else the current method makes it considerably easier to rerun the program with different parameters and is in fact scriptable.
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:o

Supes, I think I might need your help with this, at some stage. Say I wanted configurability to the max - how might I go about creating some small config file that can change lots of the program, rather than a couple of numbers? Anyway, now's not the time. I might ask more in a few days.
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I'm going to see this group in February! This is possibly the best song on their new album.

Sick vid
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Found it. Of course it was a p that should be q. So you get this now:
./noise 700 50 10 output.pgm

Interestingly, this image is actually larger when compressed using PNG. I mean it might be the program I used, but perhaps I have finally found my pathologic image! Of course as we know for any given lossless compression format there will always be some sequence of bytes that is larger when "compressed" by that format. So maybe I've found one of them.

This is what happened when I added the second domain warping:
./noise 400 25 10 output.pgm


As you can see it's not working here, there is far too much random noise. Compare with the stuff going on in this page.

It's also going to need optimisation soon. It's a little slow. There's a really easy one, that being to cache the vectors generated at each grid point. At the moment they're recomputed each pixel and they involve a call to a fairly complex function and quite a bit of trigonometry. So that really ought to help, I hope. When I can be bothered/have time.
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Actually, I think quite a lot of people have realised. Having Wikipedia, Reddit and Google all talking about it might attract a little attention.
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I compile with -pedantic and -Wall and it's still fine! You'll notice that, at the moment, there's a fairly severe bias toward vertical lines - I am not sure why. But I have one idea; it might be related to the noise function I use (repeatedly, which I think is the issue). I'm bust right now but I'm going to do a little this evening, see if I can't do some function pointer magic to change which type of fbm is produced.
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It's probably about time I let someone see my code. So here it is: GET SOME

At the moment, it is nothing more than a simple command-line program to produce Perlin noise and FBM of various octaves. It's all pretty simple but is completely uncommented. You run it like
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The images are all square, so that's what size is, the cellsize defines what scale the noise is on, larger cellsizes make large noise features, smaller makes it more intricate. The octaves thing... broadly speaking, adding more octaves (you can leave it at zero for instance) will add higher-frequency noise but at a smaller amplitude. At the moment that's not hugely modifiable.

I've just realised what I've said is lies. I've added some domain warping and at the moment, it can't be turned off. The plan for the next bit is to add support for a file that all the data is read from, because there are only so many pieces of data you can put on the command line. If you want to remove the domain warping it will require a little source editing. If anyone is really interested I'll tell you what to do. Expect pictures in the next few days, perhaps!
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A song by Rodrigo y Gabriela was playing as the background to a video recently, so I looked them up. Pretty cool stuff.
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It's red. Have you looked at the picture? Yes, Long John Silver, you've made me mess myself.
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Guys, thought it was obvious, they are my Superman Longjohns. No, I won't tell you where you can get them.
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That's me, this morning.
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Attempt to wipe the current drivers from the laptop - DriverCleaner might help here. Reinstall. Report back here?
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You have insider information! WHO IS YOUR SOURCE?
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I should reply more fully to this, but I am not sure I'm inclined right now. Remind me to do so later.
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If you're behind the LAN you might need to go to your website via your local address.
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I don't know the names of the theories, sorry. There is a branch of physics known as String Theory. It's quite clever and has its roots in some really beautiful ideas but sadly is not fully understood; in fact, it is far from it. But one idea that came from this is that two universes - 'branes' in the theory - collide along some 5th axis; we perceive this as the big bang. It's pretty crazy. There is of course eternal big bang theory, where the universe expands up to a point, but there's too much matter so it begins to contract and then there is a big crunch. Physicists hypothesise this could lead to a big bounce where it happens all over again. Currently the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, so this seems highly unlikely.

This might be where I get off on the US politics side of things. I'm clearly out of my depth though I will admit you have made me rethink the Obama administration, as well as the possibility of a Ron Paul ticket. I think he's probably their best candidate. But that's not saying much sadly :(

SRAW: the Iran point is an interesting one. Ahmadinejad is clearly a nutter, but the country's changed so much in the past 40 years, it's insane. There's a lot wrong in that area of the world, but I'm not sure how it can be fixed :(
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Well, it's not QP, it's relativity for the most part :D Notice that I am not saying anything about the origin of this matter. It's equivalent to saying things have always been this way. I mean... asking what happened before the big bang. Is that really a question that can be answered? It's like asking "what is the (spatial) direction perpendicular to up, left and forward?", we can't answer that because for us there are only three perpendicular directions and everything else is a combination of those three.

Now, I am being slightly deceitful, as this was the view taken quite a few years ago before more modern ideas. Now there are lots of theories about what might have happened before, but then you kind of lose the idea of some t = 0. WHATEVER

OK, fair enough. I think you're winning on the politics front, because the highly filtered news I get only brings talk of these new rights-infringing bills and a stream of shit, so I dunno. I just feel that another republican White House is not what the world needs... I think that makes me highly partisan.
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Again, the theory doesn't talk about creation, or anything like that. Stop thinking of a before - there wasn't one. Everything is expanding and we can prove it by redshift! Here's an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift

I'm not basing my decisions on race Well yes, I am. But surely the choices of president should represent the demographic of the US? Rather than an old rich white guy. You know?

When I think of Rick Santorum, I inevitably think of... well, you know. The stuff. I've seen Rick Perry's ad, and I am not often speechless, but there we go, he managed. It's not everyone that would shout "I HATE GAYS" on national TV but he pretty much did.

As I said before, Newt Gingrich is scum. It'd be nice if people read more of the stories about him.

You say, after electing Obama, "look where we are now", well, where is that exactly? Things are bad but he has been trying to fix them, particularly with a set of republicans who essentially hate him. Do you think that, for instance, you'd be better off with McCain/Palin? Actually, that's unfair. Don't feel you have to respond to that.
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Well, there is something funny going on with your entities, because the compile tools say they aren't there.
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Any president at the moment would have to ask fora debt limit increase.

Yes, you're right. In many ways America should not have been involved in wars abroad. It's funny though, you look at those that were involved in organising the war et al and not a one of them actually did time in Vietnam, they all had deferments and the like. Kind of makes sense, right?

I completely disagree with you on the minimum wage front. I think it is ridiculous to say that businesses should not pay people to some standard - which might not even be enough to live on. Like McDonald's, for instance, you really think that they get worried about how they're going to pay minimum wage? These laws are designed to target big companies that would otherwise extract even more profit from their workers.

I stand by my old white guy statement. Look at that:

That is not cool. The black guy's gone because frankly he knows nothing and then you have one woman who... well, you're probably better placed to say if she'd win than I am. I can't see it though.

You say the big bang is an assumption... it isn't. When you look at the universe, everything is moving away from everything else. Everything is expanding. So if you wind that backwards, you arrive at the idea that everything was once completely compressed and expanded from there. There's a competing "steady state" theory, now known as "quasi-steady state", but it has been discredited repeatedly. Rather than its predictions being verified, the theory has had to be modified to accommodate observation. Also note that the theory says nothing of what happened *before* the BB. In fact, the theory claims there is no before; there is merely some t = 0 at which point things kick off; likewise there is no "outside", this was not an explosion in space but an explosion of space. Hope that helps!
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That's fair.
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SRAW said:
Down Rodeo said:

As far as politics goes, I'd probably vote Obama. As I said, I hold intelligence and willingness to learn in high esteem and am extremely sceptical of those with neither.


Well Hitler was willing to learn, but I'm sure the average bum on the street was a better guy than him


Godwin's Law; pretty certain you lose now.

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Also, on the creation thing... there's no point in talking about it because people who have decided they want to believe in a higher power regardless of the evidence before them aren't going to change their minds no matter what anyone says or does.

That's a valid point but I don't think it means you shouldn't talk about it. I've little else to do at the moment. Actually I've decided, I also disagree with you on that point.

Rockbomb, I think you covered most things. When I said "they're there for a reason" I meant "presumably" but the alcohol demons STOLE MY WORDS. I feel it's a tad disingenuous to say that Obama's plan failed while Bush's plan would have executed flawlessly, but even then McCain might have chosen some other course of action.

I'm interested to know what ridiculous restrictions on businesses you're talking about. I'm sure you'll have many but I am an ignorant foreigner! I guess you could be advising that America adopt similar working legislation as China and India, such that the US can become as competitive as they are in the global market, but that would be weird.

See, one of the problems I have with Ron Paul is that he's just another old white rich guy. I mean, really? If the Republicans chose their candidate as, say, Condoleeza Rice, or had done four years ago, I think there would have been a very different outcome. But I'm cynical (and the word was that she didn't want to do it, but that'll be right, y'know, "I don't *want* to be president").

Last point here. I think it is one hell of a supposition to look at our universe and assume that there's something "more" out there. Truthfully, I still don't know what you mean by that. For the whole of history the approach of experiment-theory-better experiment-better theory has been a success. Why should it change now, at our point in history? Why should that change at all? I mean, think of people just before the renaissance, and try telling them that one day people just like them will walk on the moon. They'd not believe you. Actually that's not even slightly relevant. Try telling them that eventually man will alter crops to have the features he desires; to change them to resist disease, to produce more food, to be able to grow in more climates... they'd say that was the realm of god or something similar. They'd say it was beyond our current knowledge, and quite possibly beyond us forever.

I suppose I ought to stop ranting at you; you are, of course, entitled to your own beliefs, and I shouldn't give a toss
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This is to do with shared memory, I suspect you will not be able to do it on a desktop card. As you say, what's the point? It'd be slow as hell and you already have enough, so they don't let you.
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Your thoughts above in the thread about there being some kind of being, and about our current theories being wrong... I suggest you research them some more. Clearly lots of work needs to be done but a key point to remember is that our current theories make predictions, predictions which have been experimentally verified. Any theory that superseded the ones we have currently would have to make the same predictions to explain that which we currently observe.

I am also intrigued by your other comment, about some sort of higher being. What would this thing be? Why do you feel there should be something like that out there? Why, in fact, assume at the moment? Do you believe it's a creator of some sort? Anyway, answer as much or as little as you feel like, I am interested.

As far as politics goes, I'd probably vote Obama. As I said, I hold intelligence and willingness to learn in high esteem and am extremely sceptical of those with neither.

Newt Gingrich is a terrible human being and I'd not so much as give him the time of day, never mind a vote.

EDITS; because I started writing this about an hour ago and forgot things. The cut of Ron Paul's interview I have heard is a shocking lapse of good judgement. Every time I see or hear about something like this journalists everywhere are hurt and it is total bullshit.

Taking all US troops out of everywhere in the world... doesn't that seem a little consequence-y? I mean, they're there for a reason. And once you get them back, what are they going to do? I can only see that leading to job losses.

Predictions: OK, sounds like he know's what he's on about. I'm sure he's a smart guy. Also, you claim that Obama wants to bring all the troops back, is that right? I'd never heard of it but to be honest, I only care because America is so influential. Every time your country elects someone that would *get nowhere* in British politics I cringe a little, but I am more concerned with what's happening in my own country. I'm probably not the best to talk to about this. Of course, it is impossible to deny that I've hacked out 400 words on it in this post alone.

Oh yeah, one last thing: it is impossible to "prove" some kind of theory about the universe correct. All a theory can do is repeatedly stand up to experiment. Rather appropriately, Einstein once said "No amount of experimentation can prove me right; it takes only one to prove me wrong", quite apt in the light of the recent ATLAS experiments at CERN. IMHO they're probably wrong with that one, but if they're not... shit gets SO INTERESTING.
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SRAW: I'm not voting for Ron Paul because I'm a few thousand miles out of citizenship. Even if I were, I would not vote for him, or any Republican, because of their stupid bronze age beliefs. Yes, he should be commended for his honesty and for voting for what he believes in, but I don't think that since those beliefs include some really dumb shit that's entirely a good thing.

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Edit: Also... why is creationism stupid?
Nobody has any proof of ANY theory of how we came into being. Sure, the scientific-based theories definitely sound a lot more believable than most religious-based theories. But in the end, nobody knows, and nobody probably ever will know... so, until someone finds some proof either proving or disproving a theory on our existence, I think they're all equal in how valid they are.


Right, consider this. There are many world religions. Hundreds. Each of them has some kind of creation myth which we know about from the supposed holy texts of that religion. The muslim, christian and judaic religions all claim to be by and large the same, fair enough, but consider that many of the rest are incompatible with each other. They make contrasting claims, but all we have to choose between them is basically personal choice. There is nothing in the world that says one religion is better than the other.

On the other hand, current scientific theories about the evolution of the universe are the result of centuries of observation, theory and measurement. They are entirely derivable from the world around us and require no ancient texts or superstition. Religion is stupid. Think about it! The Bible is largely ~1800-~1900 years old. How, in any way, can you apply this to modern life?! Go back a mere 500 years and you cannot apply their theories to the modern world. This is not a surprise.

To finish this bit, I was raised a christian. I can ask why I was raised a christian, and it wasn't because of divine will, it was because my parents are of that denomination. Were I born elsewhere - say, India - I would likely be hindi, perhaps muslim. What is the difference between these scenarios? Nothing.

To add a final bit to the Ron Paul thing, creationism denies evolution. This is stupid and I should not have to tell you why. The problem is in education, people attempt to push their bullshit into the classroom where it does not belong.

I read quite a lot of athiest shit on the internet, you know, and I guess it's not great to spend so much time circlejerking. But in America things seem to be so much worse... though, when David Cameron starts saying that the decline of christianity in Britain is to blame for the current decline of society, I start getting worried. Perhaps we need some new Crusades?

ANYWAY. I said we shouldn't talk about this and that Aaronjer should post more pictures, but you guys drew me in with your wily natures. Merry fucking Christmas.
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The problem with Ron Paul is that he is unintelligent, or at least refuses to think about things properly.

He's a creationist. No-one should EVER vote for a creationist because seriously, that shit's just stupid.

Anyway, let's stop there, Aaronjer ought to post more deep pictures we can all appreciate.
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People have suggested previously that the Mona Lisa was in fact Da Vinci himself but dressed up. Since I had invoked the Mona Lisa because of the smile I decided to make a funny based on that small random piece of trivia. As far as I can tell, that idea is largely believed to be untrue, but it's still kind of interesting. I guess it's not a well-known thing.

And yes, it is a compliment. I'm saying there's quite a lot of depth to your image.
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Ok, I think I see it. Looking at it one way her face is essentially blank, but the slight line of her mouth makes it look almost as if she's wearing a slight sardonic smile.

I guess what I'm saying is you've made a Mona Lisa. Was the reference photo actually you?
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I dunno if this helps or not, but it somewhat reminds me of these lassies that take the self photographs from the slightly upward position, looking down on their face. At least she's smiling, rather than the too-often-seen duckface...
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So, basically, if he's good, he's all about the shaggin'? Sounds like a game for me!
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That's impressive!
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Which was ironic, because I was at a bus stop at the time.
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Uh, that's pretty much it. Perhaps it is not working? The executable provided ought to be good enough, I think.

Also: why was this truck dump'd!? Pixelmachine is awesome.
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Pleasing!
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Hey, that's cool too. I was just running off on a 4 a.m. tangent about things I'd like to see one day. I guess my point is that for most people, how much impact can you really have? I guess you also have a power corrupts motif going on as well. The player might start out with ideals of making life better for people when he gets into power but as you say this will be the hard route, and as such compromises might have to be made... Awesome.
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Ah, it is more clear now. You have great ideas! These are the kind of things that are not touched by mainstream, though I say that as someone that has not played Dragon Age, or most of Oblivion, or any of Skyrim or the other Elder Scrolls games. So there's that.

D'you know some day I'd like to play a game where I'm not the big damn hero, where actually my role, although on a local scale seems to have impact, is actually revealed to be quite inconsequential.

SPOILERS AHEAD, CAP'N, FOR "CONSIDER PHLEBAS"

SERIOUSLY, don't read this if you ever plan to read the book. Iain M. Banks is a bit of a hero.

So I read this on holiday recently, it's great. Science fiction but I think the concept could transfer to some huge fantasy world.

In this book a huge amount of plot happens. There's some big space war going on and there is one mercenary type person caught in the middle of the two factions. He is sent on a mission to obtain an AI for one faction; this AI belongs to their enemies. He goes through an immense amount of shit to get to it but in the end, on a galactic scale, his impact is essentially negligible. The war ends with him having had no say in the outcome. But it's really interesting to have a really different view on this, so much happens but as I say it doesn't matter, in a sense. It really got me thinking anyway and I do so love it when games make me think.

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Spoilers are over now. Like you care.
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I was reading about your can't die man and I was wondering, is there some way you can help him come to terms with the fact that he can't die? I'd say that the good route would be to free him, obviously straight up using him as some kind of meatshield is the "bad" but you could have some sort of moral grey where you turn him into the world's biggest dick. Laughing at funerals, convincing drunk men to jump off things a la Superman... endless fun.
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I'd tend to agree, those two are about the best. It's great to listen to all the way through though.
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I reckon it'd have been funnier if you'd said "Shit! You're right! I MUST START AGAIN!"
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Oh God no.
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Going to give me a listen to all of those soon :)

Meanwhile, can I recommend the Bastion soundtrack? It is all of the awesome, just all of it.
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Just ask the teacher. As far as I can tell there is no solution to the first one. Moreover I can see no situation where you'd have to manipulate something like this, be it in further education or a job or in day-to-day life.
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OK, so, my first question is what are these for? If they're for a homework question or such I am slightly confused as Wolfram Alpha says there are no solutions to the first one. I'm inclined to agree. Certainly there's no way to make it much nicer.

Second one: Wolfie. It's a bit complicated. 4th roots of 3? No thanks.
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Ah yes, the "searching for content" game. A fun one.
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When you're done, send it to Bioware :p
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Well, effectively the latter part of the game is you preparing to murderise the actual villain. When it comes to the time for the confrontation the guy gives you the option of immortality, to be worshipped as a hero of the Empire for all eternity. If you choose this he's happy and makes you into a giant statue.

It's a false ending, really, because you haven't completed the main task you were supposed to be doing. I really need to replay JE, it's great.
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SRAW's fishing for referrals from us lot.
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Sure.
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I'm also the kind of player who sees challenges like that and says "that's for me!" even if it's really not. But I do like the idea of the player being forced into situations - and decisions - that, ideally, they'd not take, but things are far from ideal.

I also forgot about one of the endings of JE. There were the standard good/bad endings but also the one where you are transformed into a giant gold statue to be revered for all time. Good/bad/greedy bastard!
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aaronjer said:
I'm really trying to avoid the "Psychopath who is bad for the evulz" idea.
I want all of Gyllioc's evil actions to be something someone evil would actually do, as opposed to something evil and silly a person playing a video game would want to do.

Pleasing! Not that I would do them, you know; I'm too much of a pansy. I tried going evil at the end of Jade Empire and actually had to give up!
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This actually sounds interesting. Well done. There have been discussions I've seen about games where the evil path is easier in a way with the good being more difficult. I think some of KotOR might be like that... also Bioshock, but that kind of fails because overall you end up with more Adam when doing the good route. Then man of the rest of them have the three way split of Irritating Paragon of Justice, Nice Hair and Being Nice to Mums; Psychopath Who Does Bad Things Because, Well, Why Not and finally the one that's basically OK but really likes money.

(This is basically how I characterised Jade Empire. Though, in fairness, mostly the bad actions available to you were those that benefited you personally. They had their split as Closed Fist/Open Palm.)
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I'm not in my right mind.
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That's odd. Will she ever be less useless if you don't, y'know, rape?
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Hairy muff. They've actually changed it in the recent versions of Firefox, effectively when you type something in the bar it always searches rather than taking you to the most probable result. Infuriating! Particularly as they did it silently. I thought it was some kind of regression.

I have to say, I am not at all on board with the way FF is actually going. Chrome ain't much better though, I mean, with Firefox I can fix, customise and "addon", but Chrome is much tougher in that respect.
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If it happens again, in about:config there is a value called keyword.url or similar. That is what tells Firefox to search Google, or indeed any engine of your choice.

I use Chrome now, on this machine at least.
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Michael Jackson?
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One of the first ones is a proper BIK! which sounds just so brutal. I'm surprised the guy didn't fall over, I know I would have.
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I had another look. I somewhat redact my statement. The oddest thing is that if I zoom in once on Chrome (110% maybe?) the small one looks best with just that little extra smoothing. Funny how perception is.
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So, some people got baseball'd?
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I would say that her right eye is a little too dark, or something. The shading, instead of providing a depth hint, actually makes it look like her eye is a little sunken. That said, it is DAMNED GOOD.
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There's a "cheat sheet" for Unreal Script available somewhere, I have it linked on my laptop. It is very useful. If you know Java, you can get Unreal Script.
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You are more rocking than the average bear.
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You should laugh at the person who dies. That'll teach them!
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In a sense, it does! A zero mass solar system would fly apart, just as it did in my program. Great success I guess. If I make enough progress tomorrow to have some kind of visualisation going on I'll post a link to the code such that all you people who are clearly *very* interested can have a look.
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I've been wondering about SSDs... I think they'd be a good futureproofing thing but for the moment I would like more GB for my money. I mean, my Windows still boots really quickly, and there's a chance I'll have to reinstall at some point anyway... we'll see.
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Ha, they were awesome again. I now get what you mean about the drumming, it's great on The Art of Almost but he was on fire tonight, amazing stuff.
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Whit?
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My dad's only just bought it, I was going to give it a listen on Spotify but haven't quite yet. I will get it done though. Also seeing them on Monday, so you know.
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My dad's only just bought it, I was going to give it a listen on Spotify but haven't quite yet. I will get it done though. Also seeing them on Monday, so you know.
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Additionally, due to an overzealous copy() method, all the masses of the objects in the system were being set to zero after one iteration, so everything traveled in straight lines. Works now like a peach!
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I found the problem. I was not scaling the first k from RK4 by h which meant that it was taking giant steps, and was very inaccurate. I seem to remember there was some other problem... regardless I am now experiencing a severe cold which is bloody annoying. :(

No wait! It was far, far worse than that. I have gone down the route of having two vectors, one for position and one for velocity, and in my "set" method I accidentally set the velocity to the position, which is why it didn't make any kind of sense. MY BAD.
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phoenix_r said:
Did you try reintegrating the coefficients using the Mainzer-Carter algorithm applied to a system of nested matrices?

Can't tell if serious or I just have no idea what that is.

Yes, it would imply that something is going horribly wrong, the current setup is a thing called derivative() which provides the gradient of the system as a whole, if you like. Strong chance that the mistake could be there tbh. The function that does the integrating makes repeated calls to this because that's how the RK4 algorithm works. I've thought of a way to test that bit, actually, by making sure that for a simple system the derivative calculation is correct. It's definitely going very weird somewhere.

And yeah I meant to say, for the very simple system it flies off in a direction that it has no velocity component in, if you see what I mean.
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It looks like it might be a partial rewrite, to be honest. It's supposed to solve the motion of the planets in the solar system, at the moment as far as I can tell all it does is send everything flying off in completely straight lines. To me, it makes no sense, but I shall investigate more. It's not like I don't know the maths, I've done it before, but I've never written a program this size in C. It's getting rather complex and I am a little worried.

Of course there is also the question of do I get help from the internets, it is somewhat part of my Senior Honours project. If after the weekend no progress has been made I'll start posting snippets, but for the moment I'll sulk. I've no idea where it's going wrong.
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I might need to ask you, internet, about my C coding style. The "might" is because I am still attempting to fix this program. I *might* get it fixed. If I don't, well, you know. Problems abound.
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The album's out?! Oh man, so it is! I'm all over that. Right now.
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I think my points are currently set to the Euler-Mascheroni number, not sure though. We ran out after pi and e.

That's not the point though! The point is that "Canals of our City" is awesome.
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Hairy muff. It's true, the damned site just won't stop growing. We all know SuperJerComs is better, though.
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You Reddit?

Also, I really like Canals of our City, it's a great song.
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Rockbomb said:
the new Batman game, which I don't want...

You're wrong, you do want it, even if you don't know it yet.

I have an nVidia 570 from Gainward, it is quite tasty. Runs everything I throw at it quite well.
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I didn't know they appeared on Jules Holland! Damn. Ah well.
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I'm looking at C for my University project right now, and on my travels I found a malloc() which will, in fact, zero everything for you. I can't remember what it's called though.
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I'm seeing them in October :)

I saw them last September, too. It was hellish awesome.
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To save power! The exact question of what you would be doing on an unplugged laptop that isn't the internet is, uh, unanswered.
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I think he means the network card for ethernet and the like. I wouldn't know for sure but I'm pretty certain that they're actually separate. If that's what you're talking about.
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I think he means the network card for ethernet and the like. I wouldn't know for sure but I'm pretty certain that they're actually separate. If that's what you're talking about.
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That's very similar to the computer I am currently posting from. And this one is very tasty.
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Do you have a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows? Actually, that question is irrelevant, because the tools are compiled for 32-bit, and thusly will crash at 2 GiB. Is that right?
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Indeed func_walls will behave a little better.

Let's remember children that this is only the internet so we should calm down play nice. Although I do get annoyed and suggest that people hit up Google that is mostly for problems that turn up all the time, or where the person has blatantly not even tried to fix it themselves. Here, it looks like more work was put in on the pink guy's end.

Basically, man up.
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It takes hella balls. Of course, as we know, actually being shot with the 7.whatever rounds from an AK47 is a bad party.
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Damon Albarn is basically some kind of Space Wizard. Have you heard his Dr Dee stuff? The man does *everything*.
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Del tha funkee homosapien! <3
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the_cloud_system said:
i have to buy another cs game?

It will likely be free. Well, perhaps.

Valve will stick to Source forever, because that's the way it's made. Engines are expensive to make! Though, I imagine it is getting difficult to make changes to this most recent one.

I'm interested to know how they're ruining this and DotA - as far as I'd seen they weren't really making changes...
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WE'VE TRIED :(
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the_cloud_system said:
well i didn't play it much and it frustrated me so bleh.

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the_cloud_system said:
fucking sucked.

:(
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rofl

I had been excited at the prospect of a good, interesting programming truck, but no. So now I go to r/programming for kicks.
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That'd be lovely :)
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Ok, that's not awesome because it somehow isn't even getting to write to the command line, have you done anything funny to your map?
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Oh, I see. Maybe it like isn't a thing... but then, I can't remember well enough. Anything like that turn up in HL etc?
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I think you mean vertical, and why would you have vertical water? The last game I remember with that was DN3D.
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That's not an error I've ever seen - I'd be hitting Google because it's a bit specialised. Tried Tommy of Escondido?
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There's a delete option, ya know.
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Things happening soon, apparently.
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Ooo, tasty. I've always preferred vim to Emacs, though I now mostly use nano if I'm only doing a small edit of a file.
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I don't think you're running hlcsg, try that?
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I'm there. Perhaps a Euro thing?
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I thought that was beginner for a minute there and got all kinds of excited.
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Yes, I like Buena Vista Social Club. My dad is very much into Captain Beefheart. I've not tried.
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Sadly, no.
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It's Android. I could quite easily use the inbuilt but FireFox is... I dunno, kind of home.
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Stack variables are the ones you declare in a function, your 'int i's and the like. In java, if you care, variables in your arrays are initialised to their default values, often zero for primitives. But as mentioned, not in C.
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hlrad stops working? that's odd, I've not heard of it happening before. Are you doing anything... odd?
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The joys of using FireFox on mobile: "Click here to download plugin" repeated many times across a page.
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I think I get it! We all know that all dubstep is shit.
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You are a hero.
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Yar, remove some WADs. If that don't fix it come back and we'll have another bash.
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There will be some small hole somewhere, that's the issue. The reason the entity changed when you deleted the offending one is because it gives you the name of the first one it "reached"; it's a little complicated but it will find one entity then stop. So, as we suggest, use the pointfile. If there are lots of lines, then, well, you'll have a lot of searching to do, but that's your option.
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Yes, I have.

No I haven't!
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Came expecting shit; was disappoint.
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Oh man, I know where the last trinket is, but I don't think I got it. It's the one where you have to go through several rooms without dying, then die when you have moved the block (i.e. not Veni, Vidi, Vici). I've essentially given up on it, which is sad. NEXT WEEK THE TRINKET IS MINE.
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Ok, now I just want to go back to using Haskell.
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Isn't it normally 192.168.1.100?
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Too much Assassin's Creed, perhaps?
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I still rather strongly suspect you've not fixed the original problem, rather you've shuffled it around.
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I used to hike every so often, but I haven't for years. It's quite disappointing. Did manage to get my Gold Duke of Edinburgh badge though :)
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Mate de Vita said:
Btw can you recursively call main?

Jesus Christ you are one of those tricky C fuckers, trying that stuff. Maybe. C++ says no, but I dunno, why not try? C is good for the insane stuff.
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Any time someone hits my website, I commission a small plane to paint their IP in the clouds using smoke trails.
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And that is why C can quite often scare me. Re: sorting, sort once then reverse if needed? I'd need to sit and have a look but the style of C you're using is slightly different to what I've seen so some things don't make sense to me so much :p
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The world post-rapture sounds awesome scary awesome.

EDIT: I CANS DO ALL THE FORMATTING
User
Yes, I think? I'd need to work out what you mean :p
User
I've never used OC but I know someone that did for a uni project, made a game on the iPhone.
User
And ditch Outlook, try something like Thunderbird.
User
Which means the fix is to prepend a backslash, so something like \*, I think. Computers are complicated! Also, I thought there was something weird about the way you were defining the function, but I thought it best not to ask. You're reading from an old book. (Of course I also use Java where you can put functions wherever you like with little to no consequence.)
User
Well sure, it is edge-casey, but then it is written by a guy that has to deal with the edge cases :D

And I quite like the idea that UB causes nasal demons, it's a neat idea to reinforce that any kind of code could be generated (including none at all).

The Real Programmers article is still brilliant :D
User
Huh, you might need to escape it in your program, but K&R should tell you...
User
I see. I think. Doesn't C have smarter casting than that?
User
Yes, because you can code operating systems and whole entire game engines in C#. Within the realm of its applicability C is still a very good language. And, in fact, how do you think all of C#'s libraries are implemented?
User
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html

Really interesting series, be sure to check all three!
User
I have no idea what version of compiler you're using, but this gives correct results on my machine:
C code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
double power();

printf ("%f\n", power (3.0, 3));
}

double power (double b, int exp) //integer exponents
{
int i, sign = 1;
double p = 1;

printf ("%f, %d\n", b, exp);

if (exp < 0)
{
sign = -1;
exp *= -1;
}

printf("%d, %d\n", sign, exp);

for (i = 0; i < exp; i++) { p *= b; }
printf ("%f\n", p);

return ((sign == 1) ? p : 1.0/p);
}
User
Given that the pyramid is discrete, is there any point? Or are you talking like a lower bound?
User
The best part is where we don't really have to choose. Young Bride is quite the tune.
User
You're better off looking for dedicated tutorials at this stage, to be honest. Unless anyone here knows huuuuge amounts about Cinema.
Truck
User
Quite. What browser are you using, etc?
User
I guess, but, there are so many great tracks on ToVO! Courage of Others is just... harder to get into. I'll admit that Acts of Man is very good, though. Plus I'm willing to bet that most people think "The Trials of Van Occupanther" is just a better name. There's no way it couldn't be :D
User
It's a bit depressing. I reckon I prefer the Trials of Van Occupanther (for instance, see my username everywhere that ain't here).
User
User
Probably :D
User
I need some more of these because while I'm cool with 'hash' for # I have no idea for things like _.
User
Solution: display both, randomly, to different people. No net gain but hilarity for all!
User
Cloud stole that internet from reddit! I've had that tab with those links open on my Windows partition since... uh... quite a while ago anyway.
User
Do you know who made the map? You could see if they made some sort of tutorial, or you could try asking, not that you'd necessarily get a response.
User
Well, on what? A website? A game? Google will be the way to go in any case.
User
Clevers :) I don't ssh to many places but the one that I do switch to looks considerably different, they appear to use an older version of bash.
Truck
User
There's a post in the FAQ about it. Were you doing vertex manipulation?
User
Well I believe notch uses a perlin noise function which requires some sequence of random numbers to generate the terrain. I don't think they were special cases, I'm willing to accept them as coincidences.

Oops, my bracketing was wrong. big_number should be really large and the whole expression should be modded. It's called a modular linear congruential generator if you want to look it up. I even have some code that I might be bothered to look up.
Truck
User
i5 is definitely fine. The i7 is pretty much overkill :p
User
Nope. First, we need to look at random number generation...

One of the simplest ways to generate random numbers is to say
code
next = a*prev + b % some_big_number

This will generate a sequence of numbers when you make repeated calls to it (if you put it in a function, say). The choice of initial number obviously can have great effect on where the series goes, so if you allow the user to change that then you can have great variation for free! And actually an easy way for people to share maps without the associated memory/bandwidth costs. The difficulty lies in finding a good one.
Truck
User
That graphics card isn't amazing. I'd maybe look at something better. (I just looked it up.)
Truck
User
i5 is nice. i7 is *very* nice but as you spotted very expensive. I have an ATi 4500 series card and an Intel processor of some sort... 2 GHz something or other. I can run most games. However, it doesn't run them very well any more! So if you can get anything from the 5000 series of ATi then you ought to be OK. I don't really know what stuff nVidia have for mobility, I only know about their most recent desktop cards.

So yes, i5 would be absolutely fine :)
User
I can verify the 404 one. DIG THE GRAVEL. You know you want to.

My flatmate did Jurassic Park, it seemed pretty cool. That seed thing's been around since... 1.4 I think. Is that right?
User
I laid out the only advice I had.
melloyellow582 said:
You are both arguing semantics. It's the Muckrakers in our society that bring around the REAL quadrants: Floggings.

What about the Muslamic ray guns?
User
Yeah, but when it comes down to it, Roosevelt was a total badass. Though I don't see what raccoons have to do with it.

The long and short of it is about average.
User
So it's appropriate to derail when you do it, but not others? I see now. Run along, Sraw.

Since you are whining like a bitch that's been slapped, I will offer the advice of: do not run CS in OpenGL mode, try using D3D instead; or try running CS in OpenGl mode but not with the same resolution that your desktop is at. Assuming you're using an ATi card, of course.

EDIT: Wait wait wait, you say it freezes? Do you mean the game stops running or your desktop doesn't respond to anything? See if either of those things helps.
User
I always thought it played nicely with alt tab. Not that I have any way of checking... certainly, Portal 2 does.
Truck
User
Looks like a decent summary to me...
User
Actually I'm really offended by this.
User
No idea, very few of us have mapped for Source. Try the Valve Developer Wiki, like spend a few days reading it.

Why were you wanting to map for HL2 if you don't own it?
User
Yeah, I was going to suggest SurveyMonkey, our university uses it for course ratings.
User
Yes. In the tools section of Steam there will be a bit that says "Alien Swarm SDK", which is what you want.
User
Eh, actually yes: http://www.alienswarm.com/

I had forgotten about that.
User
Not any way that I know of.
User
Perhaps I don't like having multiple accounts. It's hardly efficient to have a "Down Rodeo Windows" or something.
User
Yes: look up the Valve Developer Wiki (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/)
User
Basically this - I often log into the forumscom from my phone but also when at my laptop. And sometimes I'm on my Windows partition, sometimes Linux. Since it shouldn't be too tough to enable (I imagine), would this be a thing that might happen?
Truck
User
Ah, very clever.
User
Yes like mask :-) it would scale nicely too, no?
Oh, that's not really your problem any more...
User
You could have a top-level blank bit that has a hole, i.e. on top of the lines. Dunno if I'm saying this well. Like, basically have a rectangle, with a bit cut out.
Truck
User
Ummm... I don't think so. (Sorry for misunderstanding). Unless I have it horribly wrong, which is entirely possible, it is only in Java that you can dynamically allocate arrays. If you're in C you have to request a section of memory, pointers, herp derp.
Truck
User
Essentially, yes. There's no difference. You can even go
code
for(int i = 0; i < N; i++)
User
Oh, I get you now. Kind of. First of all I would stay away from spaces and other funny characters in program names. It looks like you have it done correctly, but I always get paranoid anyway. The thing I now suggest is print statements everywhere, that way you get to see where the slow bits are and what is actually getting pushed on the stack etc.

It's funny, I was almost tempted to use the Apache Commons stuff for command-line argument processing, but I never had the time. Boost has one for C I think. Not that would be massively useful in this case...
Truck
User
You should put some mood lighting in there, maybe a dehumidifier.
User
Well, in the case of "./rpn 3 5 +" there are four arguments, the zeroth being the program name and then your two numbers then the plus. You can just refer to them as argv[j] then use atoi on them, or something. There's probably a way to reason about how many numbers compared to how many operators you have. Or something similar.

Oh, you can't refer to the i'th element of an array, or your post goes all italic.
User
I had no idea youtube even allowed those things.
Truck
User
You should listen to the Amateur Transplants - Careless Surgeon.
User
Your C looks quite old to me. But what do I know (answer: not much C). Ternary operators are kind of OK so long as you're careful. As for passing the arguments, you might have to do it like -O3 for optimisation level 3 for instance. Some programs do it like that, others don't. It depends but generally speaking --help will get you the syntax.

Unless you mean how do you pass numbers to *your* program, in which case you do it just by writing the numbers in, separated by spaces. The console just passes your program exactly what the end user types. Well, separated into strings, but you get what I mean.
Truck
User
Mostly that, but maybe faster RAM? Quite a lot of data gets moved around so that might help. Also, not doing silly things as far as constructing the map goes helps too.
User
Saying "it cannot be" without checking is the kind of... let's just say I've responded to someone's post with a possible solution, one page later it turned out that when they tried the thing I suggested it worked. Basically, try compiling and look at your memory usage. If you're on 32-bit Windows there is a maximum of 2 GB available to any one process. So check task manager while it's running.

Otherwise... sometimes bad map geometry will cause Bad Stuff (tm) to happen, so watch out for that (check for problems as mentioned by the duck).
User
Fullbright doesn't affect the fps does it? Being a giant empty box will. The engine can't make too many optimisations in a map like that.
User
perhaps you've put a big box around it. maybe it's just too big?
Truck
User
Not sure that the intent of the bar trip was beer, but let's go with that.
Truck
User
Ach, that'll do.

EDIT: I think it's worth pointing out: lol at sraw
Truck
User
Controversial! I quite like small animals.
...I was going to have some ridiculously funny counterpoint, but you know I can't actually think of one.
User
Amazing.
Truck
User
rofl
User
Actually, it's more likely that you're running out of RAM. If it's not that then you're running out of address space (though that's unlikely).
Truck
User
Pretty certain I had a lucid dream this morning! I was kind of tired, I had woken up already but I fell asleep for maybe half an hour. Anyway, to the dream!

The first bit I can remember from was me sitting in something quite a lot like our student union. This was in fact what I supposed it to be at the time. I can't remember why I was there or much of what happened before (likely nothing, it's possible I 'arrived' there) but within a minute or two some people came and sat at the table. One of the guys was someone I know (but haven't seen for a while), I said "Hi Torrance" for that is his name and he said "What?" This was entirely reasonable as he was no longer who I had initially thought him to be. Considering this to be entirely reasonable, I decided to get up and go. On the way out the same thing happened with someone else - at this stage I still didn't realise I was dreaming. However, as I was leaving this place, I noticed an A4 sheet of paper on the door. The door was like the big heavy doors to tenement closes in Scottish cities. Before it closed a man I can only describe as "muslim" ran into the building, I thought I should maybe leave at this stage, because apparently dream-me is racist.

The point is, I was going to look at the A4 page again (which I had guessed was a list of names of people who live in the building, you get them often outside of flats where the occupants change year-on-year) but I didn't bother because... I was in a dream, so I'm not going to be able to read it. Then I was like HOLY SHIT and ran out into the street. It was nighttime, maybe 21:00, in a place that looked a lot like Glasgow. Or was somehow Glasgow-ish. I tried to fly, managed to get a couple of feet up then hovered and fell back down slowly. I then distinctly remember thinking "I need to find a bar!" then I woke up. Mental.
Truck
User
Ta for the explanation :)
User
You say that, but hoops have been jumped through in an attempt to get this working. What exactly is it you've done?
User
Well done, I guess?
User
Well, you'll have something, like an integrated chipset.
Truck
User
You need to find the brushes listed and delete them, some vertex manipulation has gone awry.
User
Yeah, you might be running the wrong command, I would instead try instantiating the LauncherFrame (which is from the Minecraft beta released recently). That's possibly why it didn't do anything.

In terms of the game running on other hardware, my flatmate tried it on an Intel card and it wasn't amazing. There are a few tricks to get it nicer, but I dunno.
User
For the record, I run a client and server on this laptop with no problems. In fact, that runs better than it does on Vista.
User
mato_mato said:
and how i can fid these sites?

By looking for them! Every time you've asked a question, I have headed to Google to search for key words in your post. It's... I just don't know that anyone else here can help you, to be honest. Try asking on forums where they actually make mods, like ModDB for instance.
User
How exactly is it you're trying to get Minecraft running? I'm not having any difficulties.

However, you really have to have the proper drivers available (if you have an ATi or nVidia card in there, you can get open-source Intel drivers from... somewhere). Then running minecraft is as simple as running
code
java -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame
I don't even think you'd need to increase the memory available to it.
User
These are questions that are better asked of modelling sites.

Thing is, there are university courses devoted to the kind of things you're trying to do, so I wouldn't run into it.
User
As a general question, does Counter Strike display a 3D model or is it (as hinted above) just a flat picture? Because if it's the latter, your task is easier.
User
Hit up Google for some wonderful tutorials and software.
User
Certainly, where may we line up?
User
As far as I know the menu options don't allow you to select "non-standard" resolutions in Gold Source games. OTOH as Superjer said you might be able to get it to do it with the launch options (though isn't it -w and -h?).
User
You had it fine, I'm guessing you are on Windows Vista or 7? Basically, you don't have permissions to copy the file into C:\Program Files. Thusly, you will have to copy the map by hand.
User
sprinkles said:
What language did you write the file in? Windows only understands Cantonese, so you have to write all batch files in Cantonese.

Sprinkles isn't joking, he's just wrong. It has to be Mandarin.
User
Your batch file must be wrong, somehow, because Windows is telling you it doesn't understand the command. Try again/post your file here?
User
That's because it's not public, presumably. You can get in by connecting to SuperJer.com, can't you?
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NatureJay said:
Speaking of Mogwai, DR, what can you tell us of the Glasgow Mega-Snake? How afraid should we be?

Mostly, I just keep it in my trousers.

Oh, wait, Mogwai is one of those bands I feel that I always should have been listening to but never actually have. I will rectify this with Spotify tonight.
Truck
User
It's the same as many languages. Think about what if(true) or if(false) might mean - basically, that is the end comparison that is made. Say you have
code
if(expr_1 && expr_2) { doSomething(); }

For argument's sake say expr_1 is true and expr_2 is false. You then get
code
if(true && false)

which is
code
if(false)

which means the if statement won't execute. Now, there are exceptions and modifications to this, but this is the basic way to think about it. While you can add if(something == true) to an if block there is no particular need but that can aid readability and help catch errors quickly.

This is why I never do the latter, I love errors.
User
Plastic Beach is pretty damn good.
User
The only thing you can do for that is log in on someone's computer, then make a server with "online=false" set. Beyond that you could just host your own, it's not tough...
User
Ugh, Pendulum. Wait, has Rebecca Black been posted here? I can't remember any more.
Truck
User
And should superjer not want asserts he could, for example, change the assert macro to evaluate to nothing, thus completely getting rid of the code.

He's also right in that macros can be used for evil purposes. But then it becomes funny, right?
User
Pompeii am Gotterdamerung (or however it is) is an awesome tune.
Truck
User
I made myself clear on that, I didn't know what I was doing, still don't, don't have the time, and dropped it a long time ago. I mean, I'd rather start with something... less complicated. I was interested, sure, but I don't have the skills or knowledge right now. And I was essentially aware of that from the beginning.
Truck
User
Actually, this website pretty much is for commenting, Superjer is the definition of "off-topic". But if you particularly want, I'll stop spamming your truck.
Truck
User
Alex001 brings the smackdown, I am impressed.
Truck
User
Oh, but it was going to get to this stage :D
User
Wait, so I can like... post then press back as I please?
HOLY SHIT THAT'S AWESOME
User
Anonymous Coward said:
All neuclear plants need to be outlawed all over the world.

OK, I've not watched the video, because frankly I have better things to be doing. But look! The comments thread is filled with tools too!

GIT SUM EDYOOCAYSHUN.
Seriously, everyone should do (more) science.
Truck
User
Well, it's getting to the stage that I check maybe once per day, dunno how often everyone else does; waiting only half an hour before bumping is at best pointless and at worst really annoying.

As it happens, I don't know the solution.
Truck
User
You waited *half an hour*?
Truck
User
It's not all drivers that are broken all the time. But it sounds like for that series they're fucked.
User
Maybe? It's just a freaking huge map (that is incredibly awesome by the way).
User
I think it should be "New Friartuck", that would please me.
User
What's not mentioned is how much of a giant tool that author is. Funny, that.
Truck
User
But that's the name of three separate (and quite old) graphics cards!
User
It's a corruption of "winner", that's all. You know, homophones an' that.
User
Most likely, I am spending a lot of time in bed at the moment. Laziness winrar and all that.
User
I suppose but, you know. Ignoring like that takes effort!
User
We've managed to set up a server that runs from my laptop, it's awesome. Not that much stuff on it right now.
User
But SRAW, could you not have complained about that in a hole? Where no-one was listening?
User
But no-one here has used it!
User
You and I have disagreed over this point before many times, in fact, it's come up in this thread.

Besides, popularity, as SJ says, is a poor measure of... many things. If I went to tell most people that it is possible to decompose a sphere into two identical spheres the same size as the first one they likely would not believe me, but that doesn't stop it being right.

Now, fair enough there's not that great a comparison between abstract obscure mathematics and music (despite many mathematicians talking about the creative side of proof writing) but I feel that my point still somewhat stands. So much music today is mass-produced, design by committee; think of the kind of stuff that is squirted out of The X-Factor or something like Justin Bieber. My problem is that most mainstream music from nowadays strongly conforms to this pattern, be it rap or hip-hop or pop or god knows what. Or bland teenage soft rock.

All this and the fact that I totally disagree with the idea of music that is marketed towards a particular audience. I'd much rather artists made music that they wanted to make, without giving too much of a damn about who listened. Though I think that's a very small percentage nowadays.
User
Quite a few of the bands I listen to claim that there is something of an equal composition going on, for example Wilco, Elbow, Radiohead and Arcade Fire (I think).
User
Or, as has been mentioned, he could use the free-and-better OpenOffice.
User
<3
User
User
Lemmy uses express opinion! It's not very effective...

Aaronjer is confused!

Popularity does not determine how "good" the music is. Music that is popular yet objectifies women, places emphasis on material wealth, advocates drug dealing and glorifies violence is not good.

Now, of course I am not suggesting censorship at all. I don't like what they say but it is not up to me to decide whether they are allowed to say it (it's not really up to anyone). I decided a while ago that no one person can be an absolute moral arbitrator. On the other hand I can make some kind of value judgement on it, and I have. It's crap.

This is all ignoring the fact that the music in many of these cases is just manufactured, much like a factory line. I suppoe the part that annoys me most is that it's like audio tofu. There is far more interesting (and deserving) stuff out there!
User
The problem with using these programs is that the brushwork they create isn't very good. Your best bet is to attempt to recreate it using the generated file as a guide.
User
Sigh.

...it's not as simple as that. Yes, in SR and GR you can work with 4D vectors of which one component is timelike but it's a bit deeper than that. To say the fourth dimension is time is oversimplifying.
User
Yes, but that's a pretty huge problem. Besides a fresh install is always nice and fast :3
User
*wank wank wank*
User
Zombies and such automatically spawn in the dark. Though, if there's a dungeon nearby it might be spawning them too.
User
OpenOffice?
User
Stop making me want to play!

I don't have any problem with people paying for content btw, you have to fund the game *somehow*...
User
OK, so that's more cool. I did briefly have a look at the site when it went the F2P route.
User
Down Rodeo said:
I don't know what I'm trying to say any more.

I think it's wrong to say I don't know what I mean by MMO when that was exactly what I was trying to say - though I clearly didn't put it as succinctly as "grind with a chatbox". Which they are, essentially. Because there was Hellgate: London, and it was basically a single-player game, but that didn't stop it being a bit crap. Fair enough if the game itself is actually fun though, I probably put enough time into Bad Company 2 doing what is almost the same thing over and over to count.
User
Basically Molkman that's a 3D projection of a 4D object. It's the same as games, for instance, are 2D projections of 4D objects. More accurately the first one is more like a 2D projection of a 4D object. This is why things change with a pattern but not an easily discernible one.
User
DDO seems to go out of its way to be different while still being a game about fantasy stereotypes played by many different people on the same set of servers. MMORPG, essentially.

With the associated shitey, by-the-numbers combat and static world.

I don't know what I'm trying to say any more.
User
Given the name of the truck, I can make a guess :p
Truck
User
Spotify keeps telling me to listen to that lot.
User
Oh fuck, see that 4D one... That's awesomely amazing. I'm surprised that people haven't tried to use computers for visualising higher-dimensional spaces more.
Truck
User
This is the end point of all other media.
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blastman said:
I DONT LIKE FULL STOPS

Nah, I'm yanking your chain.
User
You always have the perfect picture for the occasion.
User
That is not football. It has so little to do with feet!
Truck
User
In some sense. The pointer doesn't act like the class, it points to it. Because, you know, it's a pointer.
Truck
User
Well, when you do myClass thingy = new myClass(), in C++ (as an example) you might do so with a pointer to thingy, rather than thingy itself. myClass might be really heavy on memory so it is better to move a pointer around and leave the class on the heap than it is to "directly" use the class.

These are the kind of issues that don't come up in managed languages, like Java and large wads of .NET.
User
It's this one. You know... the one we are posting on.
User
This website has instructions on how to use the external batch file method for compiling maps, you could try that.
User
Do you want it to be slippy, or is it just to be blue-coloured floor?
Truck
User
Pointers are fun. See how quickly you can SegFault by iterating a pointer and writing over each memory address!
User
Superjer has a LOLCODE header. It works quite nicely, but writing anything other than trivial programs in it is a bit like writing nontrivial programs in C, with CAPS EVRYWHAR.
User
Fair points. I disagree that it's "not what Java is made for", but anyway :)
User
My guess: the many chunks of land, the moderately-complex lighting, and of course Java being about 3-4 times as slow.

Also I'm not kidding, if I browse the internet with it on my lap it gets fairly unbearably warm.
User
Ah, you say this, but the overheating is far more to do with my laptop than it is to do with Java. This thing has worse thermal dissipation than a woolly mammoth.

This is why I will one day build myself a big sexy computer. I can then stop attempting to play games on this thing.
User
The spell was broken when the laptop overheated, or something. I dunno. It is now slightly less than awesome and I will be yelling about "help I need help", perhaps over the weekend.

But yes, Minecraft! Is it really the *worst* implementation? Think about, for instance, Magicka. I mean, Java's not great, but it's available pretty much everywhere and the requirements are still fairly low.
User
Minecraft has claimed one of my flatmates. He's just spent all this afternoon playing.
Truck
User
No-one wants to test your map. I don't have Hammer, as far as I know that's the general case around here.
User
What?
Truck
User
Down Rodeo said:
Is that not the Spirit of Half-Life?

So I was right, but that doesn't mean I know anything about it other than its name.
Truck
User
We can't help you because we don't know what it is.

Mate de Vita might not know what it is and be able to help you.
Truck
User
Is that not the Spirit of Half-Life? You'd have to ask Mate de Vita for that sunshine.
User
There are strange people on that internets. Makes me a bit sad.
User
I remember this! Kind of funny, but obviously repetitive. You ought to try Cow Clicker.
User
Oh, that's cool. :)
User
You say cleverness, I was guessing, and I might not be correct.
User
Inversion's a bit funny in graphics, I imagine. Depends whether you use a complicated function or just 1 - your value. Or whether you're using HSV or RGB. I can see all of those having an effect.
User
We don't really support it here as the meshes it produces are very difficult to work with. It's no good for seeing someone's brushwork but can help with entity setups.
User
You make no sense!
Truck
User
CoD 4's single player is actually very good, it's quite inventive for a "modern realistic war shooter".
User
My suggestion is that you back up your important files and reinstall. If you can't System Restore something's fairly badly wrong.
User
Christ! Reinstall?
User
System restore?
User
Not sure how to help you there chum, other than to check the control panel option for font settings. Maybe display?
User
If this is the account cloudy boy uses when he's elsewhere I'd wager someone has their hands on it.
User
Oh, I do, it's just that I never go into Ubuntu. Son, I've been dual booting since before you... did something three years ago!
User
I actually came back to Windows. Shocking, right? I like playing games too much :p

I really miss programming often though. So I tend to open up PuTTY and code on the University computers :)
Truck
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mato_mato said:
why all hate me here???

I actually love you. <3
Truck
User
Do you know I think my signature probably doesn't help the situation.

Plus, any school that gave assignments like that I would SO go to.
User
NO idea, it's a bit difficult to know what's wrong when the only information you can give us is that.

First try loading Windows in safe mode - that's when you press F8 when it's starting and choose safe mode. After that, I dunno, maybe try reinstalling Windows.
Truck
User
It's OK, I know the safety dance, but it was your video causing me distress. It looks so 70s!
Truck
User
What the fucking fuck?
Truck
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Yes, but

No, like I said in the other thread, you're not understanding us. That's not either your fault nor mine, but I don't see how we can move forward.
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Well, have fun!
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Many of us don't even have Hammer installed, why not ask about the problems? Or perhaps tell us what you're trying to do?
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Ross said:
I have read the tutorials for making cs maps but I only know how to call my maps "catpee" .I don't have or use steam. please help me

That's special.
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YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
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A forty watt bulb ought to do it. Like I said last time.

By the way, if you actually try this and end up electrocuting yourself, I am not taking any responsibility, not that I think there's a legal case for it. I've said it's not the best of plans and you'd be better buying one. Just in case, y'know?
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Mate de Vita has a point. You can turn it to various levels somewhere, I dunno where. If you look up .NET tutorials, I imagine it'll tell you what API calls to make.
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Excellent success. Just because I know you care, Guardian of Light is brilliant, and one of My Favourite Games. (tm)
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I've no idea what program this is, but it's clear that language is becoming a bit of a barrier. I'm sorry, but as far as I know most of us here only speak English (there are, of course, some lovely exceptions).
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To be fair to the guy, yes it could, if Valve had included support for it. They've not, but you know.
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func_giveup
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If you've not placed an info_player_start, well, you need one. If you have... that's odd.
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I wouldn't know about the blood but yes, that sounds about right. And it is quite funny :)
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The other man also speaks the truth. Sealing it will stop the water evaporating; also, you're not making it that hot. I think at about forty degrees Celsius the wax becomes mobile enough but I don't know. A few minutes on Google has enlightened me enormously.

You know, I almost suspect you're some kind of elaborate troll.

EDIT: professional ones seem to use a 40 watt bulb at the bottom, both for heating and for the sexy lighting.
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Not really, bullets don't actually have that much momentum. Yes, they move quickly, but they are very light. People falling over or being knocked back is almost a learned response from movies :)
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The man speaks the truth. Anything that you can make hot - put it at the bottom. You put the lumps of wax in the bottom, they are heated, become less dense than the surrounding water and float to the top. Ideally here they cool and sink again. Making one yourself is a bit hardcore, though. I'd recommend buying one.
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I think mato_mato is crazy.
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func_train, use Google for a full tutorial far better than I could provide.
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No, you put your map on a website, if people like it they'll download it. If you've actually made the map for someone just send them it, they'll know what to do.
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The link has the answer, no?
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The largest size in any direction is 4096 units, I'd make it slightly smaller than that, just in case.
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fpsbanana hosts Counter Strike maps. There are lots of places, but I feel I should say not every server will automatically start running your map.
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This one's been fix'd for a while.
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It's a pretty good face.
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Sprinkles has essentially answered it for you, but basically because you are trying to copy into a special area (which is Program Files) you need elevated privileges, so copying the actual compiled map has failed. You can do this step manually.
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sprinkles said:
Its all done with javascript. It should be fairly easy to get the CSS. Jus' grab the head section, and search for the link, or inline stuff. Do that first, I'd say, then jus' display the result.

I'm in no way sure how you would change this actively, unless you used the built-in support for scripts that Chrome has. The best guess I would say is: You reload the page, then change the CSS (The extension will run before the page is actually loaded).

I think.

Does no-one ever read the things I say?

For an example here, I have a small script running in FireFox which, on www.rockpapershotgun.com, takes the alt-text from images and displays it beneath them. Because alt-text isn't displayed as a tool-tip but Wordpress only provides opportunity to insert alt-text it makes life easier, because there are often funnies in the alt-text.

Whew! Basically, use Greasemonkey (scripts).
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Well, we know SuperJer already has a large list of words that he uses in the Headline Generator (which is fantastic by the way), so I assume he's tweaked it such that "ordinary" phrases don't really turn up. I've done a bit of work on grammars, it should be possible, I think. If you decompose the thing you are searching for into some number, jam that into your sentence-generator, you get consistent results but few (no?) collisions.
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Can you not write something a bit like a Greasemonkey script? Wikipedia tells me that quite a few of them run natively. You should have a look, the Greasemonkey has many tutorials.
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Really poor design where the air cannot flow around the laptop sufficiently, resulting in massive heat gain very quickly?
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Not unless CS had focus, sadly.
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Mate de Vita said:
sprinkles said:
There is nothing in there. I mean there is a little bit of dust on the fan fins, but nothing else. Nonetheless, I'm calling Dell to complain.

Warranty expired, Dell wont even let me call them unless I pay a $60 service charge or some shit. Faggots.

Oh, you have a Dell laptop. There's your problem.

Hey! This one works fine! It's just very poorly designed, from a point of view of heat dissipation.
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My laptop turns off if at any point the CPU temperature hits 100 C. That's... 212 F.
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Not all that tough, but very very good for 72 hours :) I like, verynice.
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SuperJer links to't in the tutorials, no?
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I'd assumed it was a lyric from that music you young folks listen to.
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At Superjer.com, we expect the HIGHEST standards.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
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I like the ones you do with the visual effects, they're pretty nice one-shots :D
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They're bad in different ways. I hate that Apple has gone for such a walled garden approach; it's pretty dreadful for anyone wanting to do things their own way. Microsoft are bad for other things.

It's a little too much Ne'er Day for me to go into this. Damn you, SuperJerForumsCom!
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What?

he has an impressive beard.
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Bible says fuck all about self-indulgence. I wants me six cores!
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Maybe? Try the Hammer help.
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I quite like the faces, actually.

It looks like the func_ladder page says.
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ZHLT.wad, my bad.
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It's probably in Half-Life.wad, no?
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Gah, look at the ladder tutorial. It's all there.
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It's a texture.
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Hey, what's wrong with being self-indulgent?
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At least you are not alone. Or something. It might just be that the emulation for full 3D is dodgy. It is 3D, right? I have no idea.

In other news, I bought Tomb Raider: GoL, because I plan to play it through with a friend and put crazy videos on the internets.
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It's true, the very high end 5970 cards were really expensive not that long ago. They're still quite expensive. Intel Gulftown processors - the 6-core sexy beasts - cost $1000, I think, if not more. Then you can spend ridiculous amounts on your RAM, get two harddisks, one which is SSD and fast, the other that's 2 TB or something silly... Yes, lotsamoneys.
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I have never played that map and so have no idea.
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For Christmas my mum and I decided that the thing to do would be to buy a Kinect as I already had an Xbox, so we did. I hadn't been on my box for ages so I checked it a couple of days before, played a bit to make sure it was OK. The only way this story can end is with Red Rings of Death on Christmas morning, and that's how it did. £80 for repair, too! I will claim that back, one way or another.
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Outcast said:
You can also play it on Xbox 360 or Ps3 if you have any of those,it's a cheaper solution instead of upgrading your pc.

He wants the mods likes.
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You already have a screen, yes? Mobo, maybe $100, memory $30, graphics card $100, CPU $120 for a not bad one... really, it depends what you're looking for. You'd then need a case, which might or might not come with a PSU. To be honest it's a good few months since I looked at any hardware, so I've no idea what's cheap now, but that sounds relatively OK to me. You could probably get away with worse stuff but again I don't know exactly what.
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Generally speaking, Intel graphics cards are a no-go. Though they can actually play World in Conflict...
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Yes, so I see. Problem is slightly worse than I thought as you don't have enough RAM. On the other hand you can get more than enough for $30. Thing is, you're pretty much looking at a new computer, because that thing is very low-spec. How old is it? You could make your own, you know.
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Well, what are the specs of your computer? Have you tried playing Oblivion on it? Cheap way would be to buy very crap graphics cards to improve your computer, you can get one that would do it for $70, probably less nowadays.
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Thank you, internet-hero-man!
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func_walls don't stop the beer from escaping.
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Yes, have a swatch of the F.A.Q.
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Yes, brushes textured with CLIP are invisible but stop players moving through. By making the whole thing smaller, I assume you've made it at one size but want to shrink it?
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I've heard it's quite buggy for some folks. There's to be an expansion soon.
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Right, fine, he put it on his iPod, but that's not the point. I like buying CDs, even if I do put them on my iPod. I can still use my CDs in the car and in my alarm.
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Be fair, you can funk any time. There was jazz-funk in the 80s and there's some really cool African funk my flatmate has a CD of.
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There's a guy that does that around our physics building, he was on one of my lecture courses. It does look very cool.
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Do you like forget that you've already posted, or what?
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Most forum users aren't around, I'd wait a while longer.
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That might have been Windows 9x. Oops.

I'd suggest looking up the DosBOX wiki, they have pages for quite a few games. It's likely that if you need some special sauce to get TR working properly, they'll know about it.
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Run XP in DOS mode! You know you want to!
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Supercool fudge can snap-freeze computer programs.
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1. Centre keyboard on desk; allow plenty of space.
2. Prepare self mentally, this may be difficult.
3. Smash head on keyboard until keys and board are separated.

More seriously, the log is a simple text file, so copying and pasting will work. Or even telling us what's going wrong. It's like if you were a mechanic, and I called you up and said my car wasn't starting and expected you not only to know what was wrong but also fix it over the phone.
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For starters, you're copying too much stuff. You don't need the line that says "Without Steam" and the bits at the end (that is, everything after "C:\Half-Life\" whatever it is. Secondly, as the tutorial says, you need to change the filetype from "text files" to "all files" next to the box where you put the name of the file.

This is becoming my most-hated feature of Windows.
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I like that you waited almost exactly 24 hours.

Part of the problem might be that some of us haven't played that map. I know I haven't.
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He probably would have found this useful three years ago. As it is, he likely no longer cares.

I think this is fake, but whatever.
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As the FAQ explains, you have a hole somewhere. The light was the first thing that the engine found, but that's not where the hole is. Seriously, are you even looking?
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I suppose mainly because SJ.com is something of a lawless wasteland. Well, it's not really.
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Well, not really. The pixel size remains constant, it's the scaling that changes inside your browser.
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There's no such thing as perpetual motion, it will eventually lose out due to friction. I still don't understand what you want or need this for!
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The man in the orange has it - make sure you copy the batch file correctly this time.
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LEAK LEAK LEAK, check the FAQ.
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For the record my phone doesn't like them either.
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You're right, and that's frickin' weird.
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This is much funnier if you imagine Sprinkles saying it at twice normal rate because, as Cloud notes, he's on cocaine (crack?).
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Fortunately, that's a 403 forbidden.
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Buying the game will get you all updates until release - I assume that means you'll get the updates to release, but none after that? He explains on Twitter, if you can be bothered looking.
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Cheap and easy to do what? Store energy until it's used later? Because for that, I'd use a battery. Or are you really asking for a perpetual motion device that is cheap and easy? Or maybe you just want an electric motor?

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING D:
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Wait, you have to buy the beta and the full version? Is that right?

TWO MINUTES LATER: ah, I see. Basically, when you have a line that says "All future versions for free!" the lawyers get scared, and with good reason. That's one hell of a promise to make. I am pretty certain that if you buy a beta copy of the game, you won't have to buy the full version. What kind of crazy world is that?!
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I can believe that :p

Is XP ten years old now?
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Post the contents of your log file.
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Meh. Most of the posts in HM are stupid and annoying, I wouldn't get too worked up about it. Besides, there'll be another one along soon.
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Tight pants (I used to couldn't dance)
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What?
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Spin for a long time, you say - well, spin for a long time undriven? Probably just a really heavy metal disc would do it, provided you can get it going.
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And read the FAQ, and search the forums, and get your tags right. The answer is somewhere in the forums, presents if you can find it.
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Lots of trains were cancelled last week. We also have snow on the way, I'm a little sick to be honest. Well, saying that, I don't really have to go anywhere, so maybe it'll be cool.
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I might ask the same of you.

Basically, the file "catpee.log" should exist. If it doesn't, something is going *seriously* wrong. We won't be able to work out why your compile is failing without looking at the log file.
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In the Month of May?

It's been cold here too, apparently it was -15° C at one point. This is very cold for our constantly-moderate climate (it's weird, we're on the same latitude as Churchill, Manitoba, Canada).
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You really ought to, because it's telling you to look there.
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I really wanted to be a Firehouse Captain, but Superjer switched foras before I was. That made me slightly sad.
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Sadly, that was the end of the tour, though I'm not sure if they meant the UK.
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Not sure I understand what you're trying to say.
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Becausepostslookbetterlikethis.
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It doesn't because it contains Arcade Fire, and they are awesome. They opened with "Ready to Start". It was brill.
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Ok, but how many games of DotA are played daily? Weekly? In a month?
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Ew, Bill O'Rielly or however you spell it, ew, ICP. They're nutcases, and he's quite fat.
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Nezumi said:
3: I was utterly floored by The Suburbs. Various songs in it were stuck in my head continuously for 3 straight weeks. No joke. I hadn't really heard anything by them before, besides Ready to Start on the radio, which was pretty ok, but I listened to the rest of it and fell in love. I think it's better than Neon Bible, although I've only listened to that one time through. I haven't heard any of Funerals, but maybe I should. I really liked the way The Suburbs worked as a whole album, and not only as individual songs. Reminds me of the Gorillas albums Demon Days and Plastic Beach.

I went to see them tonight, more later. They were awesome.

I mean, I'll post later.
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No, you were the only other "real" person on this board, remember?
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No problem!
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I tried. I've attentioned him now.
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aaronjer said:
I disagree. It'd be too easy to get away with DDoSing just to be a dick instead of trying to make a point.

That too :)
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LIKE A BOSS
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Wait, it's not been two years, right?

I cannot deal with two years, because that's a lot of years, in no small way. I'm no longer making sense.
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Oh, well then. I pressed the butttttttan lots but it didn't work.
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Hmmm... I have a problem with sit-ins because some students sat in the George Square lecture theatre a couple of years ago; while they did not interrupt my lectures they did cause some others to be rearranged. Basically, I feel that the action is largely pointless, and causes more harm than good. OTOH I fully support Wikileaks, I think that it is absolutely FANTASTIC that it exists. I only hope it continues to do so.
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I wanted to ask Superjer if we could keep you. As it is, I want to tell him that the attention button is not working.
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sprinkles said:
Down Rodeo said:
Oh, awesome! You're a "pick a fight over the internet" man! :D

I will swim to fucking Scotland and kick your ass to Saudi Arabia.

Oh no you di'int! Etc, etc. I've been drinking, it makes me want to respond. OTOH you're still funny.

SUPERJER: can we keep him?

Oh my God, I meant to bring this to SuperJer's attention, but the buttan is not workan!
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My God, it's true. When are you posting your Christmas pornography, Havokk?
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I don't know enough about Apache but you should probably check their manual. There might be a symlink from /etc/ to /usr/var/apache/ (is that even right?).
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NatureJay10 said:
Sloth's icon is but one of the many reasons I always visit this site in public.

Fixed.
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I cannot take people that pick fights over the internet seriously. In fact, I find that people who pick fights anywhere to be rather silly.

And addendum to the previous post: lol!
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Oh, awesome! You're a "pick a fight over the internet" man! :D
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No-one cares for the sl0th.
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Great success.

Ignore cloud, we try to occasionally.
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The system could not find the file specified - either it can't find the bsp, it didn't move properly, maybe it couldn't find CS... there are a few possibilities.

You know, there are a lot of people that don't get this. Might try it myself one day to see if it's as hard as all that.
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Do you mean something like this?
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That makes a kind of sense, I suppose. Bit odd though, no? I wonder what situations you'd want that in, too :p
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The really harsh thing to do would be to post in here then delete your post. Happy days?
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We have and the answer was ne'er found. Superjer says that it's basically the same as posting in the forum except that everything is updated by jscript, both when you send a message and on a timer (every couple of seconds). Thing is, when the table is updated by you posting the timer should be paused, or SO SAID HE.
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Well, this is the breaking news truck. It breaks much more slowly on the official site.
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I'm not sure that that's provable. On the other hand perpetual motion violates lots of different laws of physics.

Your machine wouldn't produce motion. It could store it rather inefficiently, but where's the point in that?

It would be instructive to look at your setup and one that is the same except with the magnets removed. The balance of forces will be the same (as Edan said, zero).

And, of course, if you used it to induct a current it would slow down. It's odd but you can view it as a kind of friction: the electrons individually can be pushed around but when there's lots it can be a surprising force. If you have a hand generator you can feel the difference by hooking up lights of different wattages.

I like how I've said the same thing over and over in this thread in marginally different ways.
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When I say never worked, I mean never worked properly. I did it to try to speed the fucker up but it was taking so long (yes, a long time to defrag a 5.98 GB HDD, I carry more storage in my pocket) I cancelled it, thinking nothing would happen.

In fact, in my pocket there is a device many many times more powerful than that PC that is an order of magnitude smaller than it. Excuse me while I go be creeped out.
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I've heard that Johansson is, in fact, dead. Bear trap while in practice.
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I don't know if that's quite what you meant to say but by God, it's awesome.
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It would actually have to be referenced at some point, yes. My God.
Infinity book!
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That's not the last version, there have been two since. Which show NOTHING. But I really miss the boxes.

FUN FACT: I stopped Windows 98 defragging midway through and it never worked ever after that. Further attempts to defrag failed.

What an OS.
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I mean, is there even going to be an eternity? I also think you'd find it hard to write down a book describing the universe. There's not enough paper to write down a googolplex, even!
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phoenix_r said:
Down Rodeo said:
At that stage, Windows says "HOLY SHIT LOW MEMORY", the damn thing nearly stops working and then starts killing programs, I think. Or asks you to do some. I dunno. I assume if you somehow managed to fill up lots of memory *really quickly* then it'd just lock up.

I don't miss 9x at all. AT. ALL.

Ah, so someone got the reference. Microsoft Word + Windows Media Player + IE = low memory at some point, I think.
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Rockbomb said:
Down Rodeo said:
It needs a few more months of constant shavin' I think.

That sure was something I said.
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See, I thought it might have been the army thing. Hell no, I don't have a degree, I'd failed a year. Not that I told anyone here that

Seriously, this is damn near orgasmic.
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It needs a few more months of constant shavin' I think.
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I disagree.
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At that stage, Windows says "HOLY SHIT LOW MEMORY", the damn thing nearly stops working and then starts killing programs, I think. Or asks you to do some. I dunno. I assume if you somehow managed to fill up lots of memory *really quickly* then it'd just lock up.
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If you allocate more memory than RAM then large amounts of data start getting written to and read from your HDD. This actually happens all the time, however, mostly these "pages" are swapped around without the user noticing because the OS moves them invisibly, and ideally when data is needed it will be in RAM. There'll be more about this on Wikipedia.
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Essentially.
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buq feels it's unfair to classify the entire group as clowns when only one of them ever was trained as a clown. After deciding it wasn't the career for him he moved into music and from there, etc etc.
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Oh, that's a bit interesting... what does it even mean to say that?
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As it happens, I was looking at a certain writer's playthrough of this just yesterday. It looks rather funny.
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I see. I don't think Edan's coming back, somehow.
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I'll take that as a yes.
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PHP looks so nasty. I assume '->' is some kind of dereferencing, or tells the program you want to access the method FindWorlds from $world?
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Wut?
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So, necro and suchlike. Did I really sound like that? On the *internets*? Ah well. The point is to link to this: http://allrgb.com/. Very cool, does what I was trying to do, but intelligently. So I might try again, what with my increased programming knowledge over the past year (longer?).
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Power to the Pigeons.
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There's possibly a difference between locked and sleeping that you're not seeing. If it's asleep, or on standby, all programs stop executing.
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CoD4 is a very good game. You should try that - the single player is *actually decent*.
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Ah, some semblance of inner peace - I see now.
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Urgh, if you keep buying run-of-the-mill, ordinary, boring, BOG-FUCKING-STANDARD games like this, you will only get more of them. This is, what, the seventh CoD game? Time to move onto something new, I think. There's nothing done here that wasn't done a decade ago.
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I DON'T UNDERSTAND D:
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It's very old, but very funny.
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There are details in the F.A.Q. truck.
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"There's a post that deserves deletion. I kid, I kid." said Down Rodeo "My dog ate this resurrected truck, so he could re-resurrect this truck with his bare toes that are quite very cold because of snowball-fights."

"Stay frosty." I want to have hot sex with AaronJer because he
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"There's a post that deserves deletion. I kid, I kid." said Down Rodeo. My dog ate this resurrected truck. So he could re-resurrect this truck. With his bare toes that are quite very cold because of snowball-fights.
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The man has a point. That and you could try looking on the big internets.
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IPOAC - IP over avian carrier.
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OMG

Anyway, yes, fedex_ has the right size. Didn't you listen last night? I'll try again because I think I was a factor of 8 out.

If you have four bits (half a byte) you can store 16 separate values, or 2^4. Similarly one byte can store 256 different values. If you use the traditional unsigned integer format obviously the largest value you can store is, in fact, 256-1. So, 2^number of bits - 1 is the largest value.

On a 2TB HDD you have 2*10^12 bytes = 16*10^12 bits. Assuming, that is, the drive has exactly that amount of storage available and that the manufacturers use the SI standard for their prefixes (this is why Microsoft reports disc sizes as smaller, they are using technically what are called Gi, Ki etc.)

Thusly the largest number storable is 2^16000000000000 -1. We can do a little better, as 2^10 ~ 10^3. 2^16000000000000 = (2^10)^1600000000000 so 2^16000000000000 ~ 10^4800000000000.

That is to say, a huge number. Staggeringly big. It is far bigger than a googol, but less than a googolplex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_numbers
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It was a rhetoric, admittedly such things do not go well on the internets.
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I miss days, sometimes. Though not often.

Isn't this like your third trade thread? How did the others go for you?
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Actually, I think that one is an impostor, for whatever odd reason he/she might have.
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I was trying to read some particular data in from a file in a slightly generic way. Not a fun time.
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403 forbidden is one of my favourites.
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Eh, maybe. I think we're assuming they're permanent.
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Unless you have a frictionless system, it won't rotate forever (just a very long time if you do it well).
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I'm descending further into madness, but my program, she works.
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Through some bullshit combination of regexes and Scanners I have managed to read the whole file in and put it in a string, and can now use it with said Scanner to split it into tokens.

It's not supposed to be this hard, right?
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I'm having to write one, and it's really fuckin' boring. It makes me wonder how people write huge configuration files, because seriously, this seems like the worst way of doing things. I'm currently looking at using the scanner class for great victory but God knows I'll be here a while.

I'm guessing it's easier in grown-up languages, or maybe there are some C libraries out there that will do it. I dunno.
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I have no advice to offer on this, really. It's funny, when I was leaving school, it was always kind of implied that I would head on to University, then after that, w/e. What I would suggest (I do have advice after all, wow) is to imagine yourself, maybe a year from now, doing what you want. If that seems like the coastguard service, well, perhaps it is for you.
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It's to do with how the things are detected. The only way to detect a particle is to cause it to interact with something else. So, if an electron is going through a slit, you can fire a photon at it to see if it's there. This act of measurement causes the "collapse" of the wavefunction that describes the electron. It's no longer a wave, it's a localised particle.
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OK, well, the scary thing is that the effect disappears if the detectors are switched on. Even worse, we can fire an electron with the detector switched off, turn on the detector before it gets to the detector and it still disappears!

Maybe it would be best if you ask questions of me.
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I think you keep going until you hit a stack overflow. Must try this when I'm on my laptop.
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No takers? Any guesses? Anyone understand what's going on?
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In science, if you want to be technical, there are no theories. But /thread.
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I thought it was because hosting this server meant he got really hot all the time.
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:-(
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I found ConnectBot for Android. It's pretty cool.
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Special and general relativity are entirely consistent, it's quantum mechanics and general relativity that have issues.

In what way is it "stupid"? It's actually rather a neat idea at its core (particles behave like 1D strings trying to minimise the area of their worldsheets, which reflects the Principle of Least Action nicely), but sadly all sorts of things need to be added to make String Theory more consistent with our Universe. It also makes a whole bunch of predictions that are a bit... dodgy. Some very nice symmetries though.

I used to enjoy discussions with you AaronJer, but now you're not really trying. WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME ANY MORE YOU CAN BARELY LOOK AT ME
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the_cloud_system said:
is it healthy for the computer to lose that much and stuff?

I've heard that rapid massive weight loss can in fact be very unhealthy.
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I AM RIGHT LALALALALALA
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I disagree. There are some solid experimental claims for the basis of String Theory. However, much of it is based on conjecture and has little in the way of experimentally verifiable predictions.
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<3
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Yes, I am, but you're basically verifying what I've said. Anyone have any more crack?
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You could stab them with internet knives. Everyone forgets the knives!
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Yes, you were quoting him, but why? They're the same guy, you know.
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Well, that is a satisfactory outcome, should he verify it.
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Those are impressive whiskers.
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I'd start small. That's not the kind of moustache you can walk into.
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On my screen the image appears as 500 pixels by 463 pixels. Unless you are somehow seeing a larger-resolution image than I am, it will also be that size. If we assume that your pixels are spaced at 100/inch, as are mine, the image will appear to be 5 inches by 4.63 inches. Funnily the image is about that size on my monitor.

What I'm trying to say is that the size of the hand is not dependent on the size of the monitor; instead it varies with the pixel spacing. BOOYAH.
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According to that video is the problem. There is a theory, like a framework, called String Theory. It purports that in some way the Universe has more spatial dimensions than we can easily observe. Some formulations say ten, others eleven, and there is one that says twenty-six, though only if you are rotating to the right.

Mate de Vita is being a bit sneaky, he was not necessarily talking about spatial dimensions. For instance, finite bodies, essentially anything of normal human size on Earth, live in a six-dimensional space. They have three co-ordinates describing their position relative to some origin and another three describing their rotation, relative to same. If you have two such objects, you can describe them in a twelve-dimensional space. Mathematicians also frequently consider objects in systems with many spatial degrees, it makes life interesting.

As another example, consider a quantum system where the end observation can be one of six different events. You can model that system with a six-dimensional vector, assigning probabilities to the different outcomes. If you then take this to any "normal" size, the end options are basically infinite, so you have an infinite-dimensional vector. This is also known as your run-of-the-mill function.
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I'm sure, but unless you're running at a nonstandard (i.e. fewer than normal) number of pixels per inch, it would be the same size as the rest of ours.
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What?
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It would be hilarious.
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But that's a tiny hand...
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hi5!
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While there is certain evidence that there is too m

Fuck it, I'm not getting into this argument. I've said what I wanted to say. I'm not one of these people who is apt to post on Facebook pages commemorating the latest tragedy; that's pointless and shallow. However, when someone who I have at least shared a dialogue with on occasion posts a story about fairly major accident, I will sympathise. It's not really impacted my life in any way but that doesn't mean I am completely lacking in empathy.

I still hate the whole "expected" behaviour idea. It's not and shouldn't be. Since when did it become normal to wish someone you've never met to die in a fire? Anyway, my participation in this thread is over.
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They have teeth, not ears.
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I was expecting something approximating a human response, actually. It's too easy to trivialise people into words on the internet.
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You say that, but there's a line. I dislike this whole idea that it is somehow expected or appropriate behaviour. It's misguided and wrong.

Go on, say that that's just my opinion and that it does not matter and that there's nothing I can do about it anyway.
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SRAW said:
Damn, I hoped sprinkles wouldn't have made it out alive

Don't be offended.

Right.

SRAW, if I told you to go die in a fire, then you were actually in a fire, would you be all that impressed if I expressed disappointment that you'd survived? You have some serious lessons to learn about social interaction. To be honest you are symptomatic of the problems the internet suffers as a whole.
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Admins: if ever there was a reason to get rid of the... idiot, let this be it. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing him gone.

If anything, I am very disappointed.
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The best way to do it is to have one user called "root".
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Whoa, harsh times.
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To be fair that was pretty awesome.
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This one is definitely in the FAQ.
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Holy shit! Anyone ever answer that crashy thing?
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Having the one light in the room pointing at the screen also helps.
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I did use the wrong form of the verb, of course, but that's been edited to oblivion.
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Sad times. Goldeneye for the N64 was possibly one of the best things to happen to my childhood.
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That's the possessive apostrophe, I'm not using it there for contraction.
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Sometimes people on the internet astound me.
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China's government is NOT COOL. You can cite this post for your essay, if you like.
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So sloth, where did you find this?
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Very nice.

Yes, I reckon if he thought about it he could. Spheres have no discontinuities but cubes do, so I guess using that knowledge you could. I was going to make arguments about visualising based on the data from your hands, but that's not correct.

Rockbomb: I'd assume something visual, maybe, like "seeing"text, but you're right, head asplode.
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I meant about that sentence. The prawn one.
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Do you agree or disagree with our logics?
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I meant like this:
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It's all cloud based an' that, isn't it?

Particle physics gives me a hadron.
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Same. They're what I use to put my feet in.
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That's odd. And ssh is definitely working on the host machine?
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Well, what actually happens when you run ssh?
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Wikipedia is the place to be, but essentially you fire a ray from a virtual camera in a certain direction. The program the calculates what colour that spot should be based on whether the ray hits anything, what light is shining on it, the surface properties and all that...
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Sorry, it was the best truth table I could do at the time. Basically, we have two logical variables, X and Y. The values underneath X and Y denote whether we take them as true or false; the next column is basically ¬X -> Y.
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Ah, the inconvenient line is an interesting one :)
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This equation clearly shows there's an implicit l. But it's pronounced as written.
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That's all that matters, really. <3
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If this were deleted, no-one would ever have to know that it existed. And that would be the best thing.
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SpiKe' said:
Duh! I asked about a script and you are talking about pussies! You are all OFFTOPIC! Anyways I found it myself!

Fuck you too, son.

Superjer is the *definition* of offtopic, hadn't you noticed?
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The spirit of Niels Bohr told me the future.
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1) Only a func_wall, because it's not a proper wall.
2) No idea.
3) Some kind of func_trigger system?
4) It's water, what did you think it was going to do?
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I occasionally feel Danish.
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aaronjer said:
I have a problem with this. I would not be haved to conclude any such thing. I'd be all like, "It is not a shrimp, it is also not a paradox. It is just wrong."

Which is what I said, but in logic-speak. Didn't exactly make that clear, did I?
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/thread?
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Hash functions!
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If you really wanted to do it, you can with a few console commands. Is it really going to make you a better person though? And Counter Strike is for pussies, 'nuff said.
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Well, I'd break it into a question of semantics. "If this statement is not X, it is Y", is basically all it says.

if(not(X))then(Y)

Has a table that looks a little like this:
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X Y | Statement
T T | T
T F | T
F T | T
F F | F


This looks the way it is because of the NOT X. So, we can see that the bottom case of X false and Y false corresponds to the case where the sentence is not a shrimp but is a paradox. This evaluates to a sentence that is false overall. Sorted!
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That's a burn.
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Virtually.
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That's probably the most sensible suggestion in this truck.

Do we solve world hunger now?
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SRAW said:
You're a noob if you go around correcting people's grammar on the internet

Out of interest, how is that the case?
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I played all my CS with Steam and I lagged, but that's because I was about 4000 miles away from the server in question (this one).
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I disagree. Is it really so nonsensical to say that a bale minus one straw is no longer a bale?
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I can virtually guarantee that won't help. Check your mysql config files.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=276470
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I've not been taking this thread all that seriously, I feel the need to get silly after doing a certain amount of work. Hence my attempts to define a bale of hay. By putting a number to it.

Late's easy though, you stop being late when you're on time.

I am too much a scientist!
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It's not a real file. It's a... thing.
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I'd say no. Why would it be? We've already defined what a bale is. Clearly after removing one unit from it, it's no longer a bale. That's like... If I have a million Kelvin, and it cools by one Kelvin, it's no longer a million Kelvin.
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My problem with all these pages is that they're written by philosophy troopers with nothing better to do. I am a physicist, and I will draw a line. So you say: if you remove a straw from a bale of hay, is it still a bale? I say: depends on how big the bale is ;)
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melloyellow582 said:
"About" a kilogram doesn't cut it.

Yes it does! A heap is "about" some value. Don't make me go all order-of-magnitude on you.
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Ahah, you are sneaky, but notice I said "about" a kilogram. Ha!
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I think pretty much all of their albums are great. A Ghost is Born is pretty good, it's true, but there is much awesomeness on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which is apparently their best-selling album. Their self titled album is great too.
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I went through a pretty big Radiohead phase. Still think they're great, but they have been somewhat supplanted by Wilco (who love you, baby).
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We all do.
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It's a good question, that. I'd say that a heap is, oh, maybe a kilogram and upwards of straw? If you say that's arbitrary, well, it is, but I like answers to questions. In fact, let's go with... about a kilogram. That'll do!
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Nah, it's his friend. This was covered a while ago.
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Ah, in that case replace "MSVS" with dev-C++. The point stands :p
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If you were being *really* clever, you could link it to the current Supreme Court case that California has brought. It's an interesting one.
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BUMP
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Firstly I'd drop the quote mark from the path. Secondly I'd check all the build files because MSVS is trying to build "C:\Program" which is clearly the first bit of "C:\Program Files\" and so on. So something's wrong there.
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Sloth said:
so i didnt have to create a user for one post only

That's pretty much what everyone else does, to be fair.
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One of my ex-flatmates was into music, more properly than I was, I guess. But he likes Godspeed You! I could listen to them, but maybe not for a whole track. I am become mainstream! Ohnoes!
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Actually, it's not that Havokk stopped posting porn, it's more that he stopped posting. My bad!
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Banhammar squared! That one is also interesting, but I guess it's something to do with the "reverse direction of words" option thingy.
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TBH I thought he'd changed.
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Quote:

Huh, there's nothing. Have you interspersed your post with backspace characters?
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What're you doing?
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I assume one of his friends either knows his details or used the account when it was logged on and the sloth was away. Or something.
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Have a little search for it online. Not sure if anyone here knows where it is.
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Yeah, I was going to ask that, because moar music is always good :)
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I think you're the first I've seen to double post an image post. Impressive?
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Always do ;)
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I see... well, I first saw them on the Jools Holland show and they were completely mental. As for what's good on Funeral - I'll listen to most of it, stand out tracks are Neighbourhood #1, Rebellion (Lies), Wake Up, Haiti, maybe a couple of others. My dad didn't like The Suburbs much, I'm going to demand he listens to it again though.

Also Neon Bible is very good. I was going to say that disliking a band based on one album is silly, but I've disliked ICP on some lyrics and 10 seconds, so call me a hypocrite. Or a lesbian.
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You don't agree?
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Being fair medicinal use pretty much means "pain relief", there are a few MS communities asking for it in Scotland. Personally I think that due to the lack of solid research into the long-term effects of hash use, coupled with the stronger strains now available, make a strong case for continued illegality. I also don't get why anyone would want to use it, really. Or why they would support those who sell it.
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Fair play. Everyone should listen to The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, it's awesome.
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403 Access denied is *very* hot.
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Looks like three, maybe.

On topic: have you tried Googling around your issue?
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The had an interview with The Guardian. They came across as very disturbed. But what they said was that the whole thing was warning people against the dangers of Satan. They also sounded rather unintelligent.
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Same as ChatRoulette tbh.
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Ok, I retract Christian, but they do believe in "God" very strongly, and they are definitely nutcases.
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sprinkles said:
The fact is we gotsa be gettin' to ritin' those tuts so those peeps can teach.

That's true.


I still can't believe you're getting that worked up about it though. :)
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Sprinkles, you have to accept that as far as Rockbomb's concerned the more random internetters have access to his server the worse security is. And I agree - he's invested quite a lot of time and money into it, so not giving that access is not only entirely reasonable but is probably sensible.

For instance, my flatmate has a big PC that can play quite a few recent games, and my other flatmates often ask if they can play Empire: Total War on it for instance. It'd be easier if they knew his password so they could play any time without the other guy being there, OTOH he doesn't want them to know his password. See?
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Go for it :) my advice is now to make a plan of exactly what you want to say and what kind of structure you'll say it in.
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They're hardcore nutcase Christians. And, as far as I can tell, have some serious mental problems (possibly some kind of long-standing depression? I dunno).

WiFi and TVs all have different frequencies.

Sprinkles: we actually went through a derivation yesterday showing that someone accelerating particularly quickly would undergo the same effect. Since acceleration and gravity are essentially the same, bingo! Event horizon.
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To hell with consequences!

Steam Chat said:
22:22 - </Sprinkles>: hey
22:22 - Van Occupanther: aaaaaaaaah
22:23 - </Sprinkles>: superjer should have a tutorial section on his fora
22:23 - Van Occupanther: Tutorials for what?
22:23 - Van Occupanther: Just, like, everyfing?
22:23 - </Sprinkles>: everything, programming, mapping, internet, games
22:24 - Van Occupanther: I see
22:24 - Van Occupanther: Well, you can but ask
22:24 - Van Occupanther: That's how "Requests" turned up
22:33 - </Sprinkles>: rockbomb is such a fag
22:33 - Van Occupanther: What's he done?
22:34 - </Sprinkles>: he made his own foras for programming/learning and whatnot but he wants to be a dick about how peopple do it and he wont give me upload access
22:34 - Van Occupanther: What an explosive douche
22:35 - </Sprinkles>: he says I don't need upload access and its a security risk to give it to me
22:35 - Van Occupanther: Well, he's right on the latter and might be right on the former
22:36 - </Sprinkles>: how is it a security risk? superjer gave me upload access to his rig, and I also have ssh, and I haven't broken shit!
22:36 - Van Occupanther: Well yes, but the more people have access, the less secure it is
22:36 - </Sprinkles>: and if I'm going to make tuts on his foras I want to be able to post the entire scripts on his foras
22:37 - Van Occupanther: I'm not saying you are trying to be less secure but it's pretty much by a security risk by definitiom
22:37 - Van Occupanther: Well yes, I suppose
22:37 - Van Occupanther: But
22:37 - Van Occupanther: Something
22:37 - </Sprinkles>: superjer has 10-15 with upload access to his rig and its not a security risk
22:38 - Van Occupanther: Well, it is in some sense
22:38 - Van Occupanther: That's 15 more people than I'd be comfortable with, for instance
22:38 - </Sprinkles>: I've lost my faith in hummanity now
22:39 - Van Occupanther: While that's understandable I think you're overreacting
22:39 - Van Occupanther: I mean, it's just upload access
22:40 - </Sprinkles>: its not about the upload access, he's power hungry and doesn't trust his friend
22:41 - Van Occupanther: Power hungry?
22:41 - Van Occupanther: I'm loling at you, right now
22:41 - Van Occupanther: I thought I'd let you know
</Sprinkles> is now Offline.

I might have been drinking. Now come on ladies, sort it out. Pleasantly. Sprinkles, you're asking too much, for things you don't need. Rockbomb, you need to let him know this, but without being a dick. This had better be the end of it or I will wantonly murder, and there are a lot of people and miles between me and you two.
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It kind of does, doesn't it? I don't know any more. What game does? Uh, most games do in some way nowadays.
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Wait, what are you trying to do? It's been a while since I properly looked at C (not that that stopped me from trying to write some today and failing, of course).
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I think people don't like them BECAUSE THEY ARE RETARDED.
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Radio waves are electromagnetic waves like light, microwaves, gamma ray radiation, but are at the other end of the scale. They have low energy and long wavelength. They travel at the speed of light (whatever that might be in the local medium). I'm going to post this, reread your post then editify.

Radio waves do spread over thousands of miles because they diffract. You're right, it is pretty amazing. As always Wikipedia probably has better answers than me :p
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It doesn't stop them, no. Just records their passing.
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Down Rodeo said:
Half-Life is about $10 on Steam.

Vehicles are covered in the FAQ, I'm pretty certain. But see if you Googled keywords from your questions, you'd have all the answers, because were I to answer them that's all I'd be doing.
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Read the thread the answer's on the second page, I think.
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Half-Life is about $10 on Steam. For the guns, I don't know. It might be a side-effect of giving the players more guns than they are supposed to have.
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You've been shown where to go in your other truck. Please, keep them all together.
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Well,if you've not ever bought Half-Life then it won't play. I'm not sure if you can get nonSteam copies of it any more...
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See the .prt is supposed to be generated by hlcsg or hlbsp, but you're supposed to be running those. Fuckitall, I don't know.
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SpiKe' said:
Hey guys i done what this dude says ^^^ and renamed all the "captee" words to "spike"!

Actually, I asked you to start again, but w/e.
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We're getting somewhere, I guess. Mind posting this new batch file?
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Those were a couple of demos, right? I canna remember.
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You're doing something wrong, anyway... See if you try from the start, and like make a very basic map (just a simple box or something) to see if you can't get it working. Don't call it catpee, try something different.
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Oh - Half-Life is... in fact, I reckon if you Google it, you'll find it. It's quite famous and is the game whose engine CounterStrike is based on. But you play PC games and haven't heard of Half-Life? It came out in like 1998...
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Yeah, I can't find my way around. You say north, is that an actual direction? Can you even make a compass that doesn't just point to /home?
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No, you wouldn't. However, the pattern is still there! Which is part of the mental problems of QM.

However, we are sneaky physicists. We set a detector covering one hole - imagine a detector exactly covering the hole in the image above, between the mask and the screen. What happens now?

(By the way, all the stuff we're talking about so far is experimental. We're not looking at the maths because it's a bit tricky, we'd have to look at a version of the Schrodinger Wave Equation and the wavefunction.)
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Yeah, that's correct :)

What happens if we reduce the "firing rate" such that only one electron is travelling through the slits at a time?
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:o yes
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Essentially, the sky box *is* the roof. Kind of. It is not a big box around the map, it's the top part only. There's a pic around here somewhere. Bots... try making a navigation mesh. Or something. I'm afraid I don't really know :p
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SRAW said:

AND DOES MY BIG TEXT SCARE YOU CAUSE IF IT DOES YOUR A PUSSY

What the fuck is wrong with you?!
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The FAQ will have answers to most of your questions. Beyond that there are many trucks covering what you want to know.
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I printscreened it but forgot to save. Basically, a large part of the ocean nodraw'd so I could see the whole cave structure underneath, but I guess that's more to do with notch than you guys.

HOW DOES CAN'T DO DIRECTIONS :(
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Does this have anything to do with a horrible drawing bug that I saw earlier?
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"I'm too handsome to die......" :)
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I'd hit that.
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You can tell with anything less than 128 kb/s MP3s, I reckon. The cymbals start going tinny then it goes downhill from there.

There are some songs on my iPod (encoded in AAC) that I think I can almost hear something on, if I listen closely, but it as to be in my headphones because my actual speakers are now more of a source of noise.

Of course, there are also the songs that have this weird fuzzy noise on them in some places that I can't find any information about and can't fix. It's odd.
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superjer said:
I think you need more description or a diagram or something.

Yes, I do.
superjer said:
Are we to assume the electrons are fired from the gun, have some chance of either hitting the barrier or passing through one of the two holes, and then hitting the screen?

Yeah, diagrams would really help here. But yes.
superjer said:
Also, if I know what you're getting at, shouldn't you be talking about a single electron, or a single electron at a time?

Don't worry, we'll get there. Though you probably do know.

DIAGRAMS:


As Supers mentioned, there are lots of things you can do with this experiment. So, first of all we don't have the barrier, fire lots of electrons, and we end up with a pile of electrons that peaks in the middle. Then, we fire the electrons one at a time, ending up with the same distribution. We set it to fire lots again, and put the barrier in the way. There is a different pattern. What is it?

If we change the gun so that it fires the electrons such that only one is passing through the slit at a time, what happens?
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Time for more physics.

Let's say you have a miniature "gun" that fires electrons toward a screen. The gun creates a sort of 'spread' of particles, perhaps best thought of as a Bell Curve, if you guys know what that is. If you don't, it's easy enough to find out, and simple to understand.

So anyway, we're firing them at this screen, and we have this pattern. Then we do something clever: we put a barrier in front of this screen, leaving two small holes in it. What happens now?
If you're thinking "two piles, half the size of the first", you're wrong. Welcome to Quantum Mechanics. I'll make this a bit more clear later.
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melloyellow582 said:
Unless you have studio speakers or very nice headphones, FLAC is only better in your mind.

All right, I accept that.
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If there were no debates about it, we could end up with a situation where there are no decent encoders, because no-one was weighing up the relative merits of any of them. I contend your point that it is silly to debate about!
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Well yes, but lack of compatibility is hardly the format's fault. And the huge files are a side-effect of having lossless compression and are essentially what the format was designed to have. Of course, it's entirely fair to have an issue with that.
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When you say new features, are these features it has or will have?
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Intriguing...
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What an awesome game. I love the exploring - shat myself the first time I found a dungeon, I had a couple of wood items and spiders started jumping on me. I was crying.
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I see your music list and among its names there are artists that make me wonder what is wrong with the music industry today. Of course, I can quickly answer that question - there is nothing wrong as diversity is in fact the best thing and more music is always good - but seriously, some of it is shit.
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Why are parking spots like women?

Sometimes you use a disabled one but don't tell anyone!
Ho ho ho.

It's awesome because of the things you've made. I'm very impressed.
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iTunes is a pile of crap. Very much so. My iPod still works fine, I'm not a big fan of Songbird. When it first came out I was all like "yeah!" now not so much.
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Holy crap your server's awesome.
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The idea is that in QT information is conserved but black holes appear to nom the information, which isn't cool. There's a mistake somewhere - either in QT or our idea of black holes. Pretty exciting times eh?

Still thinking of something interesting to say... I'm staying away from Thermodynamics, it's BORING. I'd do some quantum but I figure either you know the stuff OR it's far too advanced because that's what I was doing for 7 hours today.

EDIT: typo.
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Down Rodeo said:
there appears to be information loss which Quantum Theory doesn't like

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Light's massless, actually, but is affected by gravity. Einstein thought of it as... it's like travelling in a straight line, but in four dimensions, which are curved. Bit complicated.

The thing that Hawking was talking about was the discovery that black holes radiate energy, therefore lose mass over time. Currently there appears to be information loss which Quantum Theory doesn't like.
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Never listened to it ;)

My flatmate has ...And Justice For All and The Black Album I think. It's one of them, anyway.
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Hey, some of Metallica's stuff isn't bad at all. I really like Kill 'em All.
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What?
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vlc's pretty awesome if you want to play everything.
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Ah, so sometimes the browser says "reload this page when press back" and sometimes it doesn't... I see. I think. Bloody Mozilla! You know, I was trying to view some locally-written MathML the other day, and it turns out Firsfox will only do that if it got the file from the interwebs.
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It's the kind of game that fits the exploring/building itch that many gamers have, but rarely get to scratch.
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Kind of, but sometimes the forums demand a refresh.
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Best reply possible :D
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I'm not sure I understand why only sometimes, if you use the back functionality, the yellow boxen remain.
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Eh, you kind of have to assume that the sphere's material can pass through itself. No singularities though!
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SolidKAYOS said:
In twilight :O

Oh jesus no D:
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I like I Belong to You/Ma Coeur S'Ouvre a ta Voix. Excuse the lack of accents, I can't be bothered finding them...
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Actually, someone showed me that the other day, It is very interesting.
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How true. It is a rather lovely place at that. Did you enjoy it buq?
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If you think that one biased picture trying to sway our point of view is good enough, you are mistaken.
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In British it is is pronounced something like "Mayorca" and spelt with a 'j', though this might be interchangeable, bearing in mind it's close to 4 am and I'm pished.
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I see. Ah well.
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I've been to Mallorca once or twice, it's lovely.
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I imagine the forumses don't know that you haven't seen all the posts because the function that checks that is only called at a certain point, or at certain times. For instance, I browse using the back buttons on my mouse, because it's easier. But sometimes the pages don't load properly, something something something. Also sometimes if you spend too long on the post screen the yellow squares disappear.
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Aaronjer doth spake the troth.

Where *are* you from then SRAW?
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Actually, I thought it was Scientology.
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He's from Malaysia. Good thing I decided not to go to that website on the university computers then!
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You tell us. Are you not able to visit it yourself?
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The Jer provides!
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There's a way to make gcc do it, can't remember how though.
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I know that in Source there are ways to change what distance it happens at, for instance, or to have a certain colour of glow through the windows, but I have no idea about GoldSrc.
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I was trying to reply to this earlier but the forums ate my reply. Probably a good thing I didn't anyway as I now think I might have been wrong but in my defence I was doing lots of Java which is never good for you.
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I'm fairly certain that the windows go dark at a distance because the engine is not drawing the inside of the building as an optimisation.
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NatureJay said:
Either way, you're missing some consonants.

Yes, I am. That was pretty dreadful, wasn't it?
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aaronjer said:
I AM VERY UPSET. DRUGS AND STUFF. OPINIONS.

Cheers! :)
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I am currently listening to Fleet Foxes. It's damn good but melancholic. I have lots of Norah Jones on my iPod. Other things that spring to mind... The Blue Nile, Bon Iver, Madeleine Peyroux, Midlake... I say spring to mind but that's what happens when I have a little think and scroll through my collection :)

I half expect to find a post from Aaronjer here in the morning saying that Mary-Jane isn't that harful after all, just to pick a fight with me, but I think that's because I'm paraoid
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I'd probably think of more if asked. Nah, not really for me, I like my lungs and my mental acuity.
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"Go" is a great song, see if you can work out who's singing. Spacewalk is deadawesome, I also really like the Curse of Ka'zar.
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I don't know anything quite like that but you might want to try Lemon Jelly.
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The timer kept on going!
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Mate de Vita said:
Well from the viewpoint of the travelling twin, it's the Earth that's moving at close to light speed for 10 years, so it's the Earth that's getting older faster. I guess that the two agings kind of cancel each other out.

Actually, you have highlighted the (apparent) paradox - both viewpoints predict that the other twin will have aged, so who's right? They don't cancel out.
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I tried to listen to it but it wouldn't let me :(
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I was thinking about this in lectures this morning, so I will put the question to you guys: the Twins Paradox. As has been said, Special Relativity predicts that time intervals are lengthened for objects moving relative to an observer. So let's say one of a pair of twins jumps in a rocketship and flies away in one direction for 5 years at close to the speed of light. He then turns around and heads back to Earth for another five years, arrives, and there is rejoicing. But according to SR the twin should actually be older from the relatively stationary Earth! Is this right? Is there really this paradox?
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I really ought to stop saying these things that can be misinterpreted by you. Because you will, and will also have pictures.
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SRAW said:
Superjer has stated countless times that he is homo, and aaronjer even admits his brother is, so I guess we're worshiping homos??

And is that a problem? Honestly, SRAW, sometimes you're so... young. Christ.
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Hmmm... Are you sure you have exactly the latest drivers? Did it work with a previous version? If so, you might consider downgrading.
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Is it intel or something?
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SRAW said:
This stuff isn't even proven yet, that's why we call them theories, so no point to debate on something that isn't true

Sounds like a complaint to me

Supes: have you tried duct tape?
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It's quite easy to construct a universe which is finite but boundless (i.e. has no edge).

And yes, Superjer is correct: in essence, muons should not reach the surface of the Earth because they have a half-life of 2.2 microseconds, even at the speeds they travel at that's too short a time to reach the surface without decaying.

On the other hand we detect lots and lots of muons. So basically they're travelling quickly, their "internal clock" runs slowly and they reach the Earth. You can also measure the differences in muon counts at the bottom and top of a hill, for instance.
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Down Rodeo said:
An inertial frame is defined as one in which Newton's second law holds, so provided there is no force acting on the stick, it's an inertial frame.

I misunderstood the question. I thought the stick was flying back at the spectator after it entered the barn, not just passing through it, so I assumed the stick changed direction without accelerating.

Ah, my bad. It's best to think of the spectator standing at one side of the barn, looking through a window or something. Again, this is all thought, since I know SRAW will complain. I might edit the original post to make it slightly clearer.
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Let's go with "appear". Because as has been outlined from the stick's frame it is normal size. The thing to take away from this discussion is that things you might normally take as constant (lengths, speeds, that sort of thing) are not in fact constant. You should in fact rely on the speed of light in vacua to be constant, no matter your inertial frame.
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That is also part of Special Relativity, the equivalence of matter and energy. The full equation involves momentum so it can describe massless particles too.
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Special relativity is the theory that describes how bodies move at velocities close to light. It's weird, but one of its (experimentally verified) predictions is that lengths are contracted. Another is that clocks moving relative to you appear to run slowly, and there's a quick argument I can run through if you like :)
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An inertial frame is defined as one in which Newton's second law holds, so provided there is no force acting on the stick, it's an inertial frame.
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Really?
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Because the hypotenuses of both triangles are not single straight lines. Instead they deviate by a small amount; this actually equates to one square, allowing the block to be paradoxically rearranged.
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Delicious.
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@Sprinkles: Suppose.

Ok SRAW, if you want to be like that, we could admit that there are no "theories" as such, since the definition of a Mathematical theory involves some sort of irrefutable proof based on some set of axioms. However, we can only produce hypotheses that agree with experiment, that make predictions about our world. Either the theory predicts correctly and survives another day or it is wrong and needs to be modified. So far, Special Relativity has survived about 100 years, which isn't too bad.
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superjer said:
I think the key to the problem is that there is no such thing as "two events occurring at the same time" when they are separated by space. At least in absolute terms.

Yes! Well, kind of. Observers moving relative to one another will in general disagree about the simultaneity of events. At speeds where relativity kicks in of course.

RB, NatureJay is talking about General Relativity. Basically, masses warp both space *and* time with the result that clocks in a stronger gravitational field (or accelerating strongly) appear to tick more slowly. Sounds a bit esoteric but this result is necessary to make GPS work!

Finally this is all thought-experiment, so we're assuming that the doors work properly for our purposes and that. I'm a physicist, not a masochist.

In fact, you could kind of do it in an actual experiment by knowing the velocity of the stick in advance, then synchronising clocks at each door. You then know where the stick will be and when it will be there and can set the doors to open and close at the correct times. That way the stick will definitely "see" the doors opening and closing at different times.
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Ok, it's been about 24 hours. Basically, the stick's viewpoint is that the shed doors open and close at different times. Each viewpoint is equally acceptable, there is no preferred rest frame. Isn't that weird and exciting?!
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No, we are standing next to the stick such that we perceive it to be at rest.
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Yes, but trucks can still be locked.
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Well yes, Occam's Razor I suppose.
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Well, it's an interesting idea, but when you derive the maths that governs the contraction, you see a term v^2, so the negative doesn't matter. How might you resolve the paradox? We're not doing the maths or anything, we are THINKING ABOUT PHYSICS (that's a phrase that needs capitals).
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Just like Mate de Vita said
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You better!

I'm going to make a truck about it. So, SPECIAL RELATIVITY

You guys might not know a lot about this, but the question I am presenting is this: you are standing next to a barn and it is at rest relative to you. In the distance there is a stick. Previously you have measured the length of this stick while at rest relative to it and found it to be longer than the barn.

The stick is now moving towards the barn with constant velocity v which is a significant fraction of the speed of light such that relativistic effects are noticeable. From your perspective you perceive the stick to be contracted along the direction of its travel as predicted. At some point due to the stick's contracted length the barn doors are able to close entirely around the stick. Then both doors reopen and the stick flies out. At no point does the stick's velocity change.

If we now look from the stick's perspective the barn is moving toward us and therefore is contracted along its length. The stick is therefore far longer than the barn meaning at no point can the barn doors be closed around it, so my topic for discussion is: What the hell's going on? How do we resolve this paradox? I'll make a post explaining more of special relativity if you guys want. The wikipedia page might have the answer on it, but I'd like you guys to have a think about it.
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I read it too, AJ, but it didn't affect me. The number of people that might have seen the results of his tinkering with code would likely have been small. I like the pictures here :)
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Also, as you yourself pointed out, this is the internet. It is easy to lie. Possibly the only person who "knows" I'm male is Sprinkles, and even then I could have had a male friend help me out. I could in fact be several people. I know you have better proof, Jake?!
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I think AaronJer's a girl.
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/truck :)

Nah it's just the kind of thing she says when I try to blind her with science.
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Mate de Vita said:
Well, it's this or nothing. I prefer this.

I WILL MAEK THE INTRESTIN DISCUSHUNS
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sprinkles said:
shown

Not sure what you mean by that. However, there should be samples available in a directory, which can probably be ascertained by reading a man page or package details.
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Well, maybe. Assuming bad faith is one of the worst tendencies the internets has. Or maybe Rockbomb is a mad cracker and cheats all the time.

Either way I'd like to see an end to this discussion. It's boring.
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sprinkles said:
So who's going to be the first one to stop fucking a 3 year-old?

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NatureJay said:
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aaronjer said:
How is that evidence?

You mean, how is me playing without hacks evidence that I don't play without hacks?

THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE IS NOT THE EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE

You sound like my mother.

AJ, I meant from a pure logic stance your conclusion does not flow from the axioms, or initial statements. Whatever you want to call them.

And you're right, I rarely come up against hackers. Virtually my only experience with them is from CS:S, and I don't play that any more. It's not good for my health, I think.
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That's creepy, how did you know? I mean, I had *one* glass of wine, sue me.

Anyway, apt-get install downloads and installs the packages. You can then use the files, not sure how it goes with PHP but you might be able to include files in projects or invoke an interpreter somewhere.
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Well yes, you are telling the package manager to download the files. Hence "install".
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To be honest, who wouldn't?

I'm not sure that it's irrational to assume that someone interested in hacks doesn't necessarily use them. In fact, logically speaking, that's not an inference you can make at all.

Perhaps someone should lock this truck.
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Be warned, though: CornJer asked for "'Does Cocaine' or something like that ... It sounds metal". Ended up with "Metal Does Cocaine". What I'm trying to say is in the Superjer forums, admins grant wishes, but they're probably not yours.
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Seriously though, this truck got blown out of proportion. Rockbomb completely refused to step down from the issue and AJ was picking a fight over it. I don't agree with those that use or make "hacks" at all but I am not sure I agree with Banhammering RB.

Y'know?
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lol band
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Is that ASCII aye?
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To be fair, there are easier things to do than navigate Windows' fairly horrific network sharing stuff. Seems awfully slow to me most of the time.

You could maybe like send them to relationship counselling or something.
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Hanged first? Or hung afterwards?
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You could run an ethernet cable between them.
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"OMG harsh"? Yet funny.
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Well, what I want to know is why you managed to find a picture entitled "pvc fetish".
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That's quite cool :) I like the style in which it was written.
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It's almost as if that sometimes happens.
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PEE EMMS
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It can be as simple or as complicated as you want, really. Sounds odd but the other way is to test things.
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To be fair many laptops are sold at the moment with middling processors and very basic graphics cards, mainly Intel ones.
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Hah, that's kind of funny, and very interesting.
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it's been a while and I am extremely tired.
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There was a probe in Starcraft. Ah, invisible spotters :)
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Precisely. "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible", so says Einstein.
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On a large scale, i.e. a person, I can't ever see it working. You need to have a massive crystal, or something, to store the data about them. Also while some of the data is transferred by entanglement some of it has to travel at traditional sub-light velocities. Bit of a shame, really. It appears that the universe has conspired to prevent FTL travel, though my favourite idea is the Alcubierre drive.
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Strictly speaking, your conclusion did not flow from mello's premises, as far as I could see. It was a minor point in a truck filled with joking-maths/physics (though I think most of what I said was correct).