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Other Discussion / COSA

« on: September 21, 2007, 09:55:27 pm »

Earlier I found something called Project COSA, which appears to be an attempt to create a system with entirely different paradigms than the ones currently used (e.g. algorithms). It was very interesting, but I started to suspect that the guy who is in charge of it is a little crazy when I saw the stuff about biblical prophecies (it is worth noting that Isaac Newton was obsessed with things like this). You can find it at: http://www.rebelscience.org

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Graphics / First Sprite from Scratch

« on: September 17, 2007, 09:12:36 pm »

As I said in the topic, this is the first sprite I made from scratch. It's an improved version of the main character from the first game my friend made.

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Discussion / Free Software GM

« on: August 26, 2007, 06:45:17 pm »

Earlier today I found that someone (besides Venus) was making a free software replacement for GM. The current (2.x) branch is still in alpha, but once it is finished it will be able to create games in a similar way to GM in Java and convert Gamemaker games.

http://www.g-creator.org/doku.php/

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Other Discussion / Warcraft III in Wine

« on: August 14, 2007, 10:31:28 pm »

I used Wine to install Warcraft III. Everything works fine, except that when I try to create a profile, nothing I type is entered, and when I try to play online I says that it can't tell what my version is.

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Other Discussion / Post Your Browser [again, 56k warning]

« on: August 14, 2007, 01:50:42 am »

Post a screenshot of your browser here. Here is mine:

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Entertainment / What Indie Bands Do You Like?

« on: August 11, 2007, 07:54:08 am »

Yesterday I activated the Jamendo plug-in for Rhythmbox, which lets you listen to the independent bands on Jamendo through the program. After listening for a while, I liked Scoldt and Wenlock. Has anyone else heard of them?

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Entertainment / Battle for Wesnoth

« on: August 10, 2007, 11:23:20 pm »

Does anyone else here play it? If you do, I'd like to see how I'd fare against you.
I used to play Undead, but now I usually use Drakes.

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Coding / How easy is it to swap music in the OOT ROM?

« on: August 10, 2007, 03:13:20 am »

I had an idea. I'm not sure if it's against the rules, since it seems kind of borderline. I just want to be able to replace the music with MP3 or OGG files. Is that possible?

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Debates / New Job: YouTube Watcher

« on: August 10, 2007, 02:38:46 am »

I came across this from StumbleUpon

http://valleywag.com/tech/job-descriptions-from-the-future/the-valleys-most-dreaded-job-youtube-watcher-287141.php

Apparently you now can be hired to search for copyright infringement on YouTube.

This could take off a lot of things I would want to see.

If people keep believing in "intellectual property", then worse things could happen than this. Discuss.

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Other Discussion / Truthism

« on: July 31, 2007, 06:47:57 am »

http://www.truthism.com/

My sister came across this from YouTube. I didn't read the whole page, but from skimming through it, it sounds like a bunch of conspiracy theory !@#$% (Fact: the first sign of !@#$% is horrible web design). One line is specifically worth noting: "Religion and science are simply forms of control that were created by the ruling elite long before you were born."

Pure dumbassery...

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Coding / BEHOLD... first Python program

« on: July 30, 2007, 10:11:06 pm »

Actually, this is also my first completed program too.

It's just a small app that lets you copy text files.

Code: [Select]

# Create the equivalent of: COPY MENU.TXT MENU.BAK

#Create a loop that will last until the user exits the program
programOver = 0

while programOver == 0:

    # restart the exit question loop
    computableAnswer = 0
   
    # ask user for name of new file
    file1 = raw_input("What file do you want to copy?\n")
    file2 = raw_input("What do you want to call the copied file?\n")
    #remember \n creates a new line

    # open the files to read(r) and write(w)
    inp = open(file1,"r")
    outp = open(file2,"w")

    # read file, copying each line to new file
    for line in inp:
        outp.write(line)

    print "\n1 file copied...\n"

    # Now close the files
    inp.close()
    outp.close()

    #loop if user doesn't want to exit
    while computableAnswer == 0:
        userExit = raw_input("Do you want to exit(y/n)?\n")
        if userExit == "y":
            programOver = 1
            computableAnswer=1
        elif userExit == "n":
            programOver=0
            computableAnswer=1
        else:
            print "Answer does not compute\n"   
           
C + C anyone?

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Other Discussion / A few things I have learned

« on: July 27, 2007, 07:43:02 am »

This is a list I submitted to one of those email forwarding sites. What do you think of it?

1. No one knows everything. This should be obvious, but it is worth stating. Even the most wise and intelligent people always get something wrong.

2. Learn as much as possible. Try to learn something from everything you do and everyone you speak to. You may gain some important new knowledge, even if it was not intended.

3. Nothing is above criticism. You can never judge the value of anything (value is meant in a few ways), unless you see its faults.
Once you stop listening is when many problems of all manner start.

4. Wanting something to be true doesn't make it. This applies to many things such as religion, love, and ideas such as that good people always win in the end. It is better to change a bad reality for the better than to deny it.

5. Don't be afraid to stand for what is right, even if you are the only one standing. This is very important. If no one ever did this there would be little or no progress and we would live in a much worse world.

6. Ignorance causes more harm than malice. Very few people have genuinely bad intentions, but because of ignorance they will see the bad things they do as good.

7. Anger is useless. It is better to fix a problem rather than getting angry over it. A "problem" here could be anything.

8. Don't pretend to be more than you are. Humility would do the world a lot of good. This includes admitting you are wrong.

9. Life has no meaning and there is no such things as perfection. This is actually a good thing. Because of this you can create your own meanings of purpose and perfection.

10. Don't resist change. But always analyze it.

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Other Discussion / lol lynx

« on: July 27, 2007, 02:33:16 am »

Since I have to reinstall Gnome, changes are being made to Firefox. While I wait I have to use Lynx. It's actually pretty nice for a text-only browser

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Other Discussion / Can't Get into Gnome

« on: July 26, 2007, 10:34:06 pm »

Beginning yesterday I haven't been able to go into Gnome. Soon after I get to the splash screen, the screen goes black and I can't do anything. I waited for a few minutes and nothing happened, and I was not able to turn it off except by taking out the battery. I am able to use KDE as if nothing was wrong, but Failsafe Gnome and E-Gnome also do not work. In E-Gnome I get a message saying something about the Session Manager not being able to be found. I don't remember making any system-wide changes the day before, but I did uninstall glade-common and installed glade-gnome. I did the reverse yesterday, but it didn't change anything. I also changed the theme to a Mac OSX-style one, but I doubt that could cause this. Does anyone know what could be going on?

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Other Discussion / Can't Move Cursor While Holding Down Keys on Ubuntu

« on: July 19, 2007, 12:05:28 am »

As the title says, I can't move the cursor while holding down keys . I had this problem ever since I installed Ubuntu, and it makes it really hard to play Nexiuz.

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Other Discussion / I'm Choking on the Stupidity

« on: July 09, 2007, 10:50:30 pm »

I found this weird Christian site with really bad graphics and bright colored text. Kind of like a MySpace page, I guess . It also has a lot of conspiracy theories all over. Overall I'm @_@.

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/

Edit: The site reminds of this page: http://www.chick.com/reading/books/158/158_01.asp. Doesn't that basically prove Christianity is !@#$%? Coming from a Christian?

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Debates / Bush, What Do You Think of Him?

« on: July 07, 2007, 06:05:04 am »

I was curious.

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Other Discussion / What Music Player do You Use?

« on: July 06, 2007, 02:32:46 am »

I used to use Winamp until I moved to GNU/Linux. Now I use Banshee (I used Rhythmbox until today). A lot of you listen to music on your computers, so I'm curious what you use.

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Debates / There is Meaning in the Universe

« on: July 05, 2007, 05:10:36 am »

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/07/03/paul_davies/index2.html

This article obviously proves that the Force exists.

Discuss.

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Graphics / New Geany Icon

« on: June 29, 2007, 07:53:04 am »

Geany is my favorite IDE for many reasons, but it's icon isn't one of them. So I decided to make my own one. Here is the original icon:


Pretty crappy, eh?

Heres the first version of my new icon:


Doesn't it look like it could fit in with a Genesis game?

Here's my finished icon:

What do you think?

I'm going to send it to the folks who make it. They said they were looking for a new icon.