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Random Chat / Re: So I got my new computer today............

« on: September 28, 2007, 04:16:08 PM »

I like it.  Good buy!

I would have probably gone with a single 8800GTX (768MB VRAM) but, then again, those are hellaciously expensive.  The twin 8600s should serve you well.

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Random Chat / Re: My mom's computer sucks, help me fix it.

« on: September 28, 2007, 04:14:19 PM »

Heh, I don't think that the SNES is quite at the level of the Atari 2600.  To do anything with the latter you needed to do all of that.  At least with the SNES you didn't need tricks to get decent looking graphics.  The Atari 2600 literally only allowed for two sprites, two missiles, a ball (literally, one pixel), and a playfield.  The display is normally mirrored.  In order to do anything substantial, you had to heavily modify the settings going to the graphics chipset as each scanline was being drawn.  By rights, multicolor sprites aren't even supposed to be possible with the 2600, yet people have done it.

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☃ / Re: be an idiot

« on: September 28, 2007, 04:55:25 AM »

I use cunt to describe things more than I probably should.

I know I've called each of my computers a cunt numerous times (but not as many times as I called the Solaris 10 installer a piece of shit -- I'd rather compile it from scratch than use that horrid thing again...tis a shame, too, because it seems like a pretty nice OS).

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Random Chat / Re: My mom's computer sucks, help me fix it.

« on: September 28, 2007, 04:51:53 AM »

Oh, it could be worse.  You have to have knowledge of how TVs worked to program for the Atari 2600, haha.  I kinda figured a system like that would be rather basic -- easy to emulate and develop for -- until I read a bit more about it.  Woo...

I mean, yeah, the fact that you had that much low-level control made it kinda flexible and combining a bunch of tricks made things like Pitfall possible (compare that to just about any Atari 2600 game -- except for Pitfall 2, of course), but...damn.

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Random Chat / Re: The Official S.net "The Lame Replies Thread" Thread

« on: September 28, 2007, 02:44:15 AM »

You know what's sad?  The one change to DDR SuperNOVA 2 that excites me the most is the addition of Marvelous grading to normal gameplay.  They should have had that back in Extreme AC (and, from what I've heard, they did for a while).

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Gaming / Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments

« on: September 28, 2007, 02:34:59 AM »

*edit* i just realized the post where eggman said he passed go beyond [a].

Holy shit, I missed that too. O_O

Awesome job, Eggman!

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Random Chat / Re: My mom's computer sucks, help me fix it.

« on: September 28, 2007, 02:33:47 AM »

Visual Studio is quite fine for large projects.  I've written a number of applications in that IDE and its debugging of .NET applications is top-notch and the responsiveness of the environment is good.  The slowest part is starting it up and, with 2005, even that's not so bad.

Also, using something like MSYS or Cygwin essentially gives you a GNU userland under Win32.  The two are a bit different in implementation but they still provide the same basic thing (though Cygwin gives you a bit more, allowing you to use X11 under Windows).  Microsoft themselves even provide an environment with GNU tools and compilers for development (Windows Services for Unix, or whatever it's called).

Granted, it's not an out of the box experience, but you can still use the same ideas and utilities that you use in Linux in an Windows environment.  Hell, you could probably even use Visual Studio to code with and set up build events that call the GNU tools if you wanted to.  It's easily as flexible as any *nix setup, it's just different.

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Random Chat / Re: My mom's computer sucks, help me fix it.

« on: September 27, 2007, 11:26:54 PM »

I would give Notepad2 a shot but...no tabbed document interface. :<

Actually, I don't mind notepad++.  It's generally a pretty good editor.  The biggest problem that I have with it is that it really really sucks at handling large documents (like Quake movie scripts...a couple of megabytes long).  I literally have to use Wordpad for large files because notepad++ is incredibly sluggish with them.

And really, coding directly for any platform is usually like having teeth pulled.  I prefer to either have much of the nitty-gritty work involved with manipulating windows abstracted or made into a point-and-click operation (using WinForms or something along those lines) or just use the console.

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Creation Station / Re: kuromusic mk iivivxcivimmvsdgf

« on: September 27, 2007, 11:01:51 PM »

Not too bad; with a bit of work it would be good in the background, methinks.  The length is good right now, it just needs a bit more going on...a solid bass/drum line, maybe.

So I take it you still want the web space? XD

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Gaming / Re: Holy Shit Simfiles!

« on: September 27, 2007, 10:57:01 PM »

Haha, check out the discussions on the Into The Inferno simfile that's been sponsored.

Heh heh heh, yes.  That was easily the best $16 that Dan and I ever spent.  Who would have thought that it'd still be a sponsored sim?

I love how I made that file in like five minutes, too, mostly using record mode.

I'll have to upload my friend's remix of it when I finish the difficulties in the chart and tidy it up a bit.  It's funny (and the expert chart is actually pretty do-able 11, unlike the loltastic original).

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Random Chat / Re: The Official S.net "The Lame Replies Thread" Thread

« on: September 27, 2007, 10:54:18 PM »

easiest update ever.

EVER.

That was EXACTLY how web updates need to be. Christ, why can't all websoftware do this shit? *pouty face*

QFFT.  I don't even think I have any normal programs that are this easy to update.  Even if the updater was the only thing SMF had going for it I'd still be impressed with it.

Also, where can I find the backend scripting for SMF?

You mean to write mods and the like?

Changes are applied directly to the PHP files in smf/Sources.  I'm not entirely sure how to get changes made directly to the PHP files to be made into proper mods, though.  I'm sure a basic diff-like tool exists for that.

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Random Chat / Re: My mom's computer sucks, help me fix it.

« on: September 27, 2007, 10:48:51 PM »

Honestly I'm not sure how I feel about that. Seems that everything nifty that linux has, everything else must have a working port.

There's nothing wrong with that.  If anything, it'll give people a taste of the penguin (so to speak).  If people try KDE in Windows and like it, they may be inclined to give Linux a shot.

It'll also give people like me a bit more consistency.  Not to mention that I just like some of KDE's tools better than some of the Windows ones (hello Kate, goodbye Notepad++).

Apache, the konqueror rendering engine, cups... okay, I just hate Apple.

Yeah, Apple really loves to make it look like they actually wrote OS X.

As for the parts that they actually did write...well, let's just say that in my experience, OS X runs like ass compared to XP and every X11 environment I've used, even on superior hardware.

What I've come to like most about KDE is its tight integration. It's got everything you'd ever probably need a computer for, all tightly integrated.

Mmm, yes.

I've also found KOffice to be quite usable as a productivity suite.  I prefer KWord and its brethren to OpenOffice.  It might not have as many features but it sure makes a hell of a lot more sense.

GNOME's ease of use, intuitive behaviour and out-of-the-box pretty is why people love it.

I don't love it.   It's a fine product, I just don't care much for it for whatever reason.

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Gaming / Re: Holy Shit Simfiles!

« on: September 27, 2007, 02:13:09 AM »

Seven, if you include Into The Inferno.

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Random Chat / Re: The Official S.net "The Lame Replies Thread" Thread

« on: September 27, 2007, 02:12:01 AM »

I have Halo 3 but I haven't played it yet.  I promised my friend that I'd wait and we can start a co-op game together...MEH.   I'll probably get to play it tomorrow.

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Creation Station / Re: Photos

« on: September 27, 2007, 12:29:08 AM »

Yeah, dorm rooms generally are.  I love how dorm rooms are less than half the size of a bedroom in an apartment yet have twice as many people in them.

...or you could always do what DeVry's Columbus, OH, location does -- squeeze four people into a tiny apartment 10+ miles away from campus.  Yeah, I'd REALLY love to drive upwards of 16 miles to school through Columbus traffic...pass.