Everything posted by obfuscator
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WoL Help Topic
What controls the number of available plots I can gather resources on? New ones seem to appear from time to time.
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Hardrock/Heavy metal
Yeah it really sucks, no one makes good metal anymore. Maiden is still good enough for me though :)
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Questions about humanity.
We absolutely have a primordial survival instinct. The problem is, the human brain is so developed that it is capable of supressing it, aka justifying the situation using common sense. A person who stays with an abuser may feel as if they have nowhere to go, as if the abuser is the "best they can get", in which case they stay despite the abuse. I wouldn't say we are de-evolutionizing. I would say that we are allowing eveyrone, even the "imperfect" a chance to live. It is true that many people have lost the toughness and ability to work for things in todays society of instant gratification. Yes, I do. There are some animals that are, but the majority aren't. If you look at the life cycle of children, human children have one of the longest animal developement stages. In the wild, fathers will stay with their children until they are adults at least, or ready to move on. In humans, the "growing up" process takes so long that by the end of it humans don't have a desire to "mate again" so to speak. Yes, I think so. We have a need to unleash anger and stress. In the past violence fulfilled that, so yes, we turn to sports to a degree. I think humans were meant to live however suits us. I can't agree with population size contributing to crime rate. For example, many small cities have much higher crime rates than larger ones. It's the poverty gap that causes crime, not the how many people we are surrounded by.
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Introduction to Programming & Programming Languages
I did what you did for C with Java. [spoiler=Java] Used for: Similar to C, it can be used for just about anything. It's commonly one of the first programming languages taught to programming students. It has a reputation for not being as fast as C but over the years it has been fine tuned to be of comparable speed. Been around since: 1995. Pros: Simple syntax like C, huge support and libraries. Easy to learn (the basics at least). Cons: Not quite as fast as C, generally not ported to consoles as well. public class example{ public static void main(String[] args){ someFunction(); } public static void someFunction(){ int i; float j; for(i = 0; i < 10; i++){ j = i; if((j/2) == (i/2)){ System.out.println("i is even"); } else { System.out.println("i is odd"); } } } } EDIT: Ok done, I don't know C so I don't know if its the exact java version of what you were trying to do.
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Java Game - Math Issue
No problem, glad you got it working :)
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User reputation
If we do that, I'd say keep it positive only, and maybe make people able to give out +1 rep per 10 hours or something....
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User reputation
Agreed here, tip.it has functioned fine without it for ages. I kind of like the fact that we are unique in that respect, its a big turn off when I see that kind of stuff on other forums. I see no need to test something that I'm pretty sure will be abused.
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The last thing you wish you didn't eat.
Me too. I stopped drinking pop.
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[Update:1/28/2010]Tip.it Clan Tournament 2010
I vote that DF and DV have to be one team. Seriously though, 2v2s should be interesting now that we have a couple top 10 in the tourney.
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Battlefield Discussion Thread
Looks solid...I really need a new computer though, best thing my laptop can run is TF2 :(
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Apologies...
So Arch, do you write essays like that for every one of your 7k posts? ;) Agreed with the feminism bit - women have long been maligned by society but a "reverse effect" propogated by extreme feminists won't solve the problem. Feminism should be about equality, but often it becomes about preferential treatement. In terms of the human rights deal - yes, right and wrong can been seen from certain perspectives but it stands to reason that certain things should be unacceptable. Nazi's have been treated humanely and given fair trials - and you can't possibly say the Nazi viewpoint of the Jews as "wrong, and needing to be punished" as fair. As far as the human rights declaration goes, its an interesting issue. How is it possible to cater to everyone? People have different views of what rights they want and often they come into conflict. I suppose as in the past, the "majority opinion" should prevail but then we see the minorities being effected negatively, such as polygamists.
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Reveal Confessions, Secrets & Regrets...
I think you forgot that nobody cares about morals. This, and the fact that not everyone carries the same morals. One person may say that stealing is wrong, while another could say that Walmart deserves it with the low wages and lack of health care provided to their workers. It all depends on who you are, Regardless of whatever social inequities Walmart may propograte, using this as moral justification for illigal vigilante actions is unwarranted. One day, he'll find himself caught, and I'm sure a corporation such as Walmart will push for the maximum sentence in court.
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rate my latest bandos crash
I agree, treat others like you would want to be treated yourself.
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The return of Muffin Maddy
Its been a while since I've posted here, good luck with your goals and such!
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Java Game - Math Issue
Basically you want it to (when it explodes) explode in a stationary fashion, but the explosion animation follows the mouse around? I won't be able to run it for another 10 hours lol.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer autographs a student's mac laptop
Ultimania, every time I see your signature I find myself staring at it for 10 minutes, hypnotized... OT: Clever, Das get his autograph!
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Java Game - Math Issue
Looking at your code it appears you're basically saying if(mouseLocation) explodeanimation.setvisible; Seems like it's doing exactly what you're telling it to - when do you want the explosion to occur? Maybe I'm just reading your code wrong, I can't run it at the moment.
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Your language of choice
Much agreed! The Uni' is backing Eclipse as the IDE of choice for it's teachings but I can't stand it in comparison to Netbeans! There's something about the Eclipse GUI that I rather dislike... One of the one things I don't like about netbeans is how lazy it makes you - i type sout(tab) all the time now and I can't hard code a gui for the life of me.
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Your language of choice
Netbeans is the most awesome thing ever.
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Rivarly posible in tip it?
I see pvp rivalries as generally being "more" exciting, but certainly CWA rivalries can be exciting as well. I actually prefer rivalries at the CWA level, top clan rivalries these days are pretty much reduced to crashing, hacking, and ddossing.
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Apologies...
From what I understand, A and B have already been done. In terms of C, no. Extremism is in no way an attitude held or condoned by any more than .01% of citizenz of the arabic countries. It makes no sense for them to have to apologize for something they have no control over. And in terms of arabic people being anti-american, I disagree. Like someone was saying, they may disagree with some policies but that is a right they have. Even if they are anti-american that doesn't matter to me - everyone is entitled to their opinion. For my part I have never met an arabic person who didn't carry reasonable political beleifs and treat me with respect.
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How will you be remembered to your clan?
I'd say I already am remembered as a bad-joke making, monty python loving, tip.it advertizing terrible tank.
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What do you do to relax ?
Team fortress 2, or sleep. I also find working out to be relaxing, but in a different way.
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Introduction to Programming & Programming Languages
Great post Davis, hopefully it can be stickied once its done. I'll try to come up with some terms shortly.
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Recent Digital Painting
I am very impressed, great job! Good luck with the unfinished ones as well.