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Just saw this quote: "I like taxes. With them I buy civilization." True indeed.

What am I going to do? I can't live without those 1.26 microseconds or whatever it was! Earth-shattering news people.

Wait, if you want to do any kind of video editing at all why would you get a "discrete" graphics card? Few graphics cards are a lot more than discrete nowadays anyway. Also, it's not hard at all to get a computer to work with 1080p video. You just have to use the right software and know what you're doing. Dude. He's making capture card videos. I think Windows Movie Maker/iMovie would do more than he wants to do anyway.

You probably got a message that said "Driver Error"? When one person gets that everyone gets that, as it is a server side issue and nothing wrong with your browser or system. It seems to me that the forum has been down quite a bit lately.

^ Linux before Ubuntu was indeed like that, but you'd be hard pressed to not call Ubuntu a desktop operating system. PiTiVi for more basic editing (PiTiVi will come with 10.04 this spring, which says something about ease of use I think) and Blender for more advanced editing.

Illinois rocks. They've got the Sears tower. Chicago is an amazing city. (I know that it's called the Willis tower now, but the name will never stick and I don't want it to.)

I have kind of an interesting perspective on this- I moved to Finland from America, went to a school in English where Finnish was the other dominant language, and then moved into a Swedish school with zero experience in the language. No lessons, no nothing. What makes me wonder, though, is why obligatory Finnish in Swedish schools never creates much discussion. Most of the students have a rudimentary grip on it already, and can make their way around in it if they must. Most Finnish people I know of my age wouldn't- And couldn't- speak Swedish pretty much at all. If they go to Sweden they ask for service in English. This is mostly because, in my opinion, of the horrible Swedish education offered in schools here. It's not because Swedish is hard- English is harder and there's no problem or argument about learning that, is there? It's the quality of the education. Consider this: When I moved into a Swedish school, my friends continued going to an English school, where the Swedish teacher is known to be bad. In a year I could speak Swedish fluently. I met my friend from that school around Christmas time last year, and he could hardly speak anything. The solution could be to do the same as I did, to have schooling fully in Swedish for a year with the exception of English and Finnish classes, and then do the reverse. Sort of an extreme immersion-style learning system, because honestly, no matter how many years of classes you take, nothing makes you scramble to learn a language like the pressure I felt in the first year of that school. If you don't mind me asking, are you Finlandssvensk? "With every language you learn/know, you are one person more". Kind of a rough translation. Why sign language? :P I wouldn't personally consider it that useful, or even really an entirely language altogether. It is an entire language, complete with its own vocabulary and grammar. It could be very useful if you're looking for a job working with disabled people or in education. More useful than you might think.

Same here. Those freaking cheesehead packer-backers.

Ubuntu has become incredibly easy, even for novices. But here's the thing: He has never owned a Mac, and is more than willing to try that out, he's even considering spending money- And the OS X interface is equally, if not more different to Windows than that of Ubuntu. Installing Java and graphics drivers is incredibly trivial on Ubuntu nowadays, and I know that I will put my "money" where my mouth is if he tries it out and runs into problems.

Linux, of course. The operating system costs less (i.e. no cost at all) and can do everything you listed.

WOOO MINNESOTA! Yeah! But of all people to say that, why you? Dude, everyone hates you. And you are inherently wrong. Did you not know that or something?

I avoid those "Head First" things because they look so stupid. You can actually tell a lot about the contents of a technical book by its cover, I've found, as the publishing companies that don't bother to hire a graphic designer are usually the ones that don't pay much attention to the quality of the book. Especially the ones that try stupid things with the cover, like some silly version of a serif font with a fisheye closeup of a guy smiling.

Yes, but it enables you to write the code that resets the properties only once- and invoke it in one line of code. Also, nesting functions isn't nearly as readable as just one function call.

That seems like a pretty roundabout way of doing it IMO... clone methods are easy to write and make for more readable code.

Lol, we've been using it actively since like early-mid '08.

I would say that using your own clone() method is probably a good idea. Just make so clone() makes so that that the correct properties are made unique or reset so that you can differentiate between objects.

I believe strongly in books as a main source of training because unlike tutorials on the internet, they are required to have a certain standard of quality in order to get published. Some books are better, some are worse, and some are incredible. I'd like this to become some sort of reference on what books to get or not. So post your experiences with books on programming or web design, I suppose. Some books I've read: Learning PHP 5 (David Sklar/June 2004/O'Reilly Media) tl;dr: Pretty good- When it was relevant. This is the book I learned the basics of PHP from; It also teaches some basic SQL (It assumes prior knowledge of very basic HTML/CSS). It covers the basics: basic syntax, form handling, databases, XML, string manipulation and a few extra things here and there. The thing is, PHP has changed quite a bit since this book was released in 2004, and if there isn't an updated version I would recommend a generic introductory PHP 6 book. It is easy to understand though. Good, but not exceptionally good. PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice 2nd Edition (Matt Zandstra/December 2007/Apress) tl;dr: A third edition updated to reflect the changes in PHP 6 would be the be all and end all guide to object-oriented programming in PHP. Already fits that role for PHP 5, in my opinion. This is an extremely good book. It's not the kind that you read once and you're done with, there's no way you can read this book in less than two months it's so packed with information. It starts off with the basics of object oriented design (What are objects? How do you make them in PHP?) and how you actually make them, then goes on into inheritance. The rest of the book (About 300 pages) is dedicated to design patterns and the practical stuff that prevents you from banging your head on the wall. It explains all kinds of patterns in detail and shows practical usage and code examples for each one. You can read this book even if you don't have a clue what objects are (I'm living proof), I would recommend this book to anyone who is thinking of seriously doing PHP. It doesn't cover some of the very newest syntactical features of PHP like anonymous functions and namespaces (At least completely), but that is understandable as the book was written in 2006-2007 and those features were released in 2009.

Oh, sorry. Fix'd. :razz:

She never stated anything. She just said to discuss about it, we all know that it simply isn't true that Wikipedia is perfect and free from vandalism. E: Gender fail.

Piracy is not actually against the rules of the forum, using the forum as a means of piracy/acquiring information on how to pirate or advertising/posting information on how to pirate is however. The difference of course is that what Tip.it's rules say is actually enforceable.

Nah, it was a malfunction in a codec, as is explained in the video description. Well between the two of you then, you lick the platter clean like it. :razz: I had to choose where I cropped carefully or the whole thing would be flashing and it's annoying enough, I think. Yeah anyway back to the topic. What about a bad sig contest like I suggested? We can obviously invite people from the outside community to show us how much they suck.

I listened to Gorillaz D-sides and Demon Dayz on Spotify today. Well, not all of D-sides, but like half the first disc. :P Maybe I'll finish listening later, stupid ads.

I screwed them up, partly as an experiment to see how long it would take people to go wtf. :P My sig is six cropped frames of that video. But you have to admit, it looks pretty cool amirite?

Get help man :lol: I'm also gonna read the LOTR books next time I get to a library... Which is probably like when that book "C programming: A modern approach" goes off hold. Spent like 1½-2 hours clearing nearly a meter of snow off our garage roof today. I estimate that we need to remove ~75% of the snow off our roof today or get water damage when the temperature hovers around zero on the weekend.

Now that I actually took the time to read the first post (:|), maybe we should have a contest for the worst signature. I mean, you can make something bad, but then you can make something that is well and truly bad that makes you want to scratch your eyeballs out.