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Developer's Corner / Re: A rant on syntax and verbosity, why ruby is not for me
« on: July 13, 2006, 11:50 AM »
You don't have to feel alone, after my day of playing with ruby, I couldn't agree more.

Things can start looking very messy with stuff like multiple assignments, and anti-intuitive expressions.

Perl still seems somewhat more intuitive to me, but maybe that's just because I've used it too much. But I still wouldn't wanna trade it in for c++.

I just tried ruby on rails, and my first impression seems that it's all Quick and Easy as long as you don't have to write something real. As soon as you want to start doing more advanced stuff you end up coding about just as much as you would in perl. Plus, after having read a bunch of tutorials and having tried a few simple database apps, I have to agree that the syntax is absolutely horrible. Not for me at all.

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Living Room / Re: MS working on an MP3 player to challenge the iPod dominance
« on: July 11, 2006, 12:35 PM »
Yep, JoyOfTech already made a cartoon about it:
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/843.gif
:)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tools that let you package Perl programs into standalone executable
« on: July 11, 2006, 11:42 AM »
Very interesting. Is there any speed difference between a compiled exe and running the script over the perl exe? Is it really compiled? Or is it just script+interpreter in an exe?

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Living Room / Re: Don't Click It
« on: July 07, 2006, 02:00 AM »
Yeah i'll have to agree with f0dder on this one.
It's really annoying. I keep opening things I don't want to open with either one of the two presented mouse gestures. And the timer just makes things too slow.

Personally, the more buttons the merrier, which is probably why I'm a keyboard freak.
I HATED them apple mice with only one button. It'd drive me totally CRAZY to have a mouse without buttons!
;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there an AV App that Doesn't Eventually Become Bloatware?
« on: July 06, 2006, 11:54 PM »
Like App said,... AVG-free has always worked fine for me. it has a very small memory footprint and it's not bloaty, and it hasn't been for a while (knock on wood).

706
Living Room / Re: Planet-killer meteor video: holy snikes!
« on: July 06, 2006, 11:03 PM »
Some scientists have been saying that, eventually the moon will drop on us.
 - or they used to anyways. It seems now they are saying it's moving away from earth. They never make up their mind, do they.

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Living Room / Re: Planet-killer meteor video: holy snikes!
« on: July 06, 2006, 08:51 AM »
That's not a planet killer if you ask me. The planet seemed very much alive after impact. Only them annoying little things that used to live on it weren't. It's like a planet-pest-control thing.
:)

708
Living Room / Re: "Maps" of Cyberspace
« on: July 05, 2006, 01:30 AM »
Awesome. I love these visualisation techniques!

709
Living Room / Funny 3d animation tutorial.
« on: July 05, 2006, 01:14 AM »
http://www.anim8or.com/movies/movies1/easy_eyes.zip

Funny 3d animation tutorial for anim8tor (http://www.anim8or.com/).
Kinda fun to watch even if you're not into 3d animation.

I think this is a great approach for a tutorial. :)

(Source: http://irrlicht3d.org/)




710
General Software Discussion / Re: Will you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007?
« on: July 05, 2006, 01:04 AM »
In 2007, it seems that the keyboard shortcuts are intentionally hidden.

It's part of a conspiracy against *nix ;)
If no one knows how to use the keyboard anymore, no one will be able to use a command line.

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Living Room / Re: Motivational sticky-notes
« on: July 03, 2006, 02:27 PM »
I could make it myself but then I'd be spending more time on making me work than i'd be working. hahaha. I'd also need it cross platform. So it's not really a coding snack request. Maybe I can make it somewhen when i'm done with this, 5 years from now ;)

712
Living Room / Re: Article: The Six Sins of the Wikipedia
« on: July 03, 2006, 01:53 PM »
Wikipedia does seem to self-correct quite rapidly just because it can be edited by anyone.

At least for now. The number of people trying to provide usefull content seems to outnumber the trolls - sofar. Just wait till advertising companies discover wiki's. (Pay-per-post anyone?)

Just don't rely on wikipedia for accurate information,- which goes for just about anything on the internet.

I still think it's a nice collection of centralized information sofar. When it really becomes a problem I guess they could just disallow anyone from editing and add stricter moderated account-rules.



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Living Room / Re: Motivational sticky-notes
« on: July 03, 2006, 01:47 PM »
Yeah, but it should keep track of the focused window (the work window).
Eg: when visual c++ is focused, the alarm counter doesn't count, but it starts counting down as soon as the window goes out of focus.
You'd have to be able to define the 'work' window. Otherwise the alarm would go off while working.

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Living Room / Re: Motivational sticky-notes
« on: July 03, 2006, 12:20 PM »
 :-[ :redface: :-[

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Living Room / Re: Motivational sticky-notes
« on: July 03, 2006, 03:02 AM »
Yeah that one survived the storm.  :)

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Living Room / Motivational sticky-notes
« on: July 03, 2006, 02:55 AM »
I found a new way to encourage productivity.
Believe it or not, but it's STICKY NOTES!

A sticky note on your monitor is something you constantly look at while at the computer. A sticky note reminding you to go back to work actually does help, because you are constantly reminded by looking at it!

I started to experiment with this and it seems to help. I spend less time browsing etc,...

(However, I did spend the time writing this post :P)


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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none
« on: July 03, 2006, 01:09 AM »
The best registry cleaner is using applications that don't use the registry, but config or ini files instead.

Eventhough Microsoft hates this, and is secretly trying to get rid of ini files.

(Who's Leo? Never saw that site. There seems to be mostly very basic stuff on there. I don't think it's a good idea to scare new users into not-fiddling-with-their-computer... after all,... how else are they going to learn stuff? ;) )

[edit] Oh he's a Microsoft employee. That explains the shield-user-from-computer stuff. :) [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Will you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007?
« on: July 03, 2006, 12:55 AM »
Don't even use ms Office in the firstplace. OpenOffice works for me just fine for now, though it's a bit slow starting up ( Java :( ). I could also use the gnome office stuff or the kde office stuff, or staroffice, etc,... I'm not a heavy office-suite-user so any of these will do just fine for me.

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Living Room / Re: Spain outlaws ALL p2p file sharing.
« on: July 03, 2006, 12:49 AM »
It's all good, they'll just keep making new protocols :D

720
Developer's Corner / Re: Della's first Game attempt!
« on: July 03, 2006, 12:14 AM »
Actually everything rpgmaker can do, can be done in GameMaker. It also has it's own scripting language, and since it allows you to make plugins you can do about anything with it.

Some People have made an irrlicht plugin allowing you to use the 3d engine within game maker and create 3d games, however the plugin is vastly outdated and behind on the latest irrlicht developments. It's rather easy to make though, here's a C example: http://www.shawn64.com/shaltif/Stuff/gmirrlicht.txt

Another thing you might want to check out is Sphere. Sphere is, just like rpgmaker and gamemaker a gamerad tool thingie, but it is mostly script based. It doesn't have a drag-and-drop-code interface like gamemaker. http://sphere.sourceforge.net/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Della's first Game attempt!
« on: June 29, 2006, 01:39 AM »
See, so there IS a way to loose!

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Living Room / Re: Interesting article: ‘Big Brother’ eyes make us act more honestly
« on: June 28, 2006, 01:23 PM »
I don't think it's right to say that the eyes encourage honesty.
They encourage fear.

Fear != honesty.

And eventhough fear might work on some people, I don't think it's a good method at all. It can have some nasty side effects. The Nazi's used fear to control their people. It tends to get out of hand.

Causing fear also causes people to distance themselve from the fear-causer. This damages relationships, and damages the people involved.

What is needed is morality, understanding, and wisdom, and TRUE honesty. Not fear. Fear is the opposite of these.

How do you create true honesty? Connect with people! Help them understand!
Causing fear may be easyer, but in the end it's self-destructive, and all in all bad for the human race.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Della's first Game attempt!
« on: June 28, 2006, 03:24 AM »
How come, every time I see that picture, I think that coin is comming out of his Derrière?  :-[

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Developer's Corner / Re: Della's first Game attempt!
« on: June 27, 2006, 11:11 PM »
It switch my display to 640x480 or something; messed up my windows and kill my ATI TV picture.
-Rover (June 27, 2006, 10:52 PM)

Actually it switches to 800x600. You must have funky drivers for your ATI card :/
It's not really gamemaker's fault. You could make an options window first and such, but that would be a bit complicated for her first program - ever.

Here's a windowed version:
http://gothic.dcmembers.com/della/snailrescue_window.exe

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Living Room / Re: What do you do at Donation Coder?
« on: June 22, 2006, 12:23 AM »
for me:

1)    97% coding for DC while sitting on IRC.
2)    1% reading rss feed while checking email.
3)    1% replying to stuff on the forums that sparked my intrest in the rss feed.
4)    1% checking latest posts to see if i missed something in the rss feed
5)    Back to 1.

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