The 100% Happy Wheels Discussion Station

[SupSuper]

Fine, next time I'll just say "math sucks" and be done with it.

[AndrewTaylor]

Actually, the largest number is about 45 billion.

[philby4000]

I'm going to go ahead and ask why the numbers that are more than that don't count.:(

[Akuryou13]

Find two and you can use them for data encryption.

The point is rarely as clear as it seems. Many major discoveries in maths and science -- maybe even most of them -- are made by accident. But you have to research something to find anything. As long as 'blue-sky' research is done, it will turn up useful and interesting results periodically.

Finding large primes is probably more use as a tool for other researchers than anything else.I guess that makes sense.

[Paul.Power]

delicious. (http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=12056)

[Squirminator2k]

You should see what's for pudding.

[worMatty]

That looks, sounds and plays much nicer than what I was expecting. I'm looking forward to it. I'll have to get a PC joypad!

[GoDxWyvern]

delicious. (http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=12056)
Holy damn. I'm having a hard time trying not to wet myself on the spot. The visuals and audio are beyond brilliant, and the physics are almost perfectly recreated. I'm absolutely rapt away.

I'll spare myself the jumping around like a schoolgirl, though.

[philby4000]

You should see what's for pudding.
Sounds a little hard to swallow.

[FutureWorm]

delicious. (http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=12056)
wow, i can't believe they actually have a semi-working release. perhaps this project will impress me yet.

brb, rebooting into windows

[FutureWorm]

holy crap this is awesome. of course, getting all the assets together for the whole game will still take another couple years, and i doubt that they'll be able to stick it out that long. however, my mind is rather blown at the moment.

[Melon]

Unfortunately, my laptop doesn't support the resolution it wants, my screen isn't big enough.

Oh well. It does look amazing though.

[SupSuper]

Well it definitely plays like Sonic, which is great.

I sure hope those requirements are purely a guess though, otherwise they're challenging Crysis.

[GoDxWyvern]

They have to be, all three versions work without framerate drops on my machine (P4 2.54 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 256 MB GeForce 6200).

[Paul.Power]

I think it was basically tested on one machine, and they decided to make that machine's numbers the rec specs because they didn't have the funds to test it on others.

[Melon]

Of course, I didn't actually try to run it before. It doesn't need full screen and works perfectly on my laptop!

Hooray! My laptop isn't the worst laptop for gaming ever!

[SupSuper]

So how about that The Sims movie... (http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/9244/tcid/1)

[FutureWorm]

So how about that The Sims movie... (http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/9244/tcid/1)
can't say i'd heard about it, but after reading the pitch it sounds really ****ing stupid

[Akuryou13]

So how about that The Sims movie... (http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/9244/tcid/1)oh my god that sounds generic and horrible!

[AndrewTaylor]

Yeah. I went there.

[Squirminator2k]

You forgot to add "War Hero and Former POW" to the beginning of the thread title.

[AndrewTaylor]

Former POW

I think it's fair to say he's still a prisoner of war.

That, or he has that Stockholm syndrome -- he was a prisoner of war for so long that he fell in love with it.

[Squirminator2k]

Bender's "demonstration" of Stockholm syndrome is brilliant.

But that's off-topic.

[FutureWorm]

awesome thread title

[SomePerson]

I was about to say the same thing

[FutureWorm]

I was about to say the same thing
hey! are you registered to vote?

although you're in california so it's not like your vote counts, lol :-/

[SomePerson]

Hell yeah I'm registered. Voted for Obama in the primaries, and intend to do so again.

That is kinda funny though, how your vote counts more if you're in one of the so called swing states. Although I'm still voting if not at least just to say I voted for Obama, and because California would be a terrible loss should such a thing happen, and we don't want that.

[thomasp]

What's the point in voting in America? McCain's just going to rig the result so as he wins - like Bush did with Gore. And then McCain will pop his cloggs and Palin will be in charge and we'll all be even more doomed than we already are :p

[FutureWorm]

What's the point in voting in America? McCain's just going to rig the result so as he wins - like Bush did with Gore. And then McCain will pop his cloggs and Palin will be in charge and we'll all be even more doomed than we already are :p
i realize you're joking, but come on now, you're sounding like a stupid european

also, sp, my vote is worth at least three of yours :cool:

[Paul.Power]

We've had more sunshine in the last two weeks than we did in the whole of July and August.

Seriously, what the hell, weather?

[GrimOswald]

We've had more sunshine in the last two weeks than we did in the whole of July and August.

Seriously, what the hell, weather?

Man, do NOT get me started on weather. In New Zealand it goes from boiling to raining to snowing to humid to cloudy to cold to SQUIRRELS. All in the same day. Silly things like seasons are certainly nothing to judge by.

[Squirminator2k]

LA Weather = Sunny and Warm Forever.

I'm getting a bit irritated by it. I miss the rain. Dear Glod, I miss the rain.

[Paul.Power]

Man, do NOT get me started on weather. In New Zealand it goes from boiling to raining to snowing to humid to cloudy to cold to SQUIRRELS. All in the same day. Silly things like seasons are certainly nothing to judge by.I always think Captain Cook should have named New Zealand "New South Wales" instead of... well, New South Wales. Rain, mountains, sheep, rugby union... there's a connection here :p.

[AndrewTaylor]

That is kinda funny though, how your vote counts more if you're in one of the so called swing states.

That's almost fair enough... it's the fact that you win on number of states and it's not adjusted for population. Effectively, Connecticut is a rotten borough.

[Paul.Power]

That's almost fair enough... it's the fact that you win on number of states and it's not adjusted for population. Effectively, Connecticut is a rotten borough.
Well, it is adjusted for population... there's the whole electoral college thing where California gets 55 seats and Connecticut gets 7 and so on.

[AndrewTaylor]

Well, it is adjusted for population... there's the whole electoral college thing where California gets 55 seats and Connecticut gets 7 and so on.

Some bits are and some bits aren't. I forget which are which -- it doesn't matter since so many of the voters in all states are morons.

[SomePerson]

Senate has 2 seats per state, and the House depends on population. Electoral college combines the two, so that smaller states get slightly more representation than they deserve. Honestly, it seems that even in this country most people want to do away with the whole electoral college. You can theoretically win with a minimum of 26% of the vote if you barely get the states you win and if you lose the other states catastrophically.

[FutureWorm]

Some bits are and some bits aren't. I forget which are which -- it doesn't matter since so many of the voters in all states are morons.

cool, thanks

[AndrewTaylor]

cool, thanks

What? Wait until the election, see how many people vote McCain/Palin. That number, plus 100% - voter turnout, is the lower limit on the number of morons in the electorate. Does it much matter which morons you ask?

[FutureWorm]

What? Wait until the election, see how many people vote McCain/Palin. That number, plus 100% - voter turnout, is the lower limit on the number of morons in the electorate. Does it much matter which morons you ask?
it seems like your only thought on americans is that they are stupid hurr hurr which gets tedious after a while

[AndrewTaylor]

it seems like your only thought on americans is that they are stupid hurr hurr which gets tedious after a while

Tedious perhaps, but also important and demonstrably true.

I don't mean to sound like I'm stereotyping here, but by now only someone whose brain is not properly functioning could support McCain. He constantly lies, even where the truth would have worked just as well, he reads books and then relates the tales as if they happened to him, he's a 72 year old man with a 4000-page medical record which he refuses to release despite having chosen the single least qualified VP selection in history, he votes with Bush all the time except when he doesn't bother to turn up which was about one in three times before he started campaigning and is now every single time since April, except last week when he went to vote on the bailout, which he claimed was because he was needed despite having repeatedly admitted he doesn't understand the economy, and was in fact a rather stupid attempt to escape a debate (which he's running ads saying he won -- ads which went live before the debate started), he has the lightest workload of any candidate in memory and admits he's 'not sharp' if he has to get up early, his VP is a Creationist who thinks she has foreign policy experience because Alaska is near to two other countries and there are video clips of her in church denouncing witchcraft and supporting an organisation whose aim is to get Alaska out of the USA. Oh, and I think there was something about a bridge.

Edit: ... and literally since I wrote this message, because the runaway mine-cart that is the McCain campaign just never stops acting stupid, I have found out that he's running an advert attacking Obama for sometimes agreeing with him (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec3aC8ZJZTc).

According to Gallup, Obama leads 48% to 45%. That means that at least 52% of the electorate are morons. This election will directly affect me but my opinion is not considered and the issue is being decided by a dumb system in a country slightly more than half of whom are idiots. This concerns me and I think it's important enough to bear mentioning a couple more times.

Any questions?

[Xinos]

I wonder how many people in FanArt think I've gone completely insane now from watching static. :D
It seems plausible that someone might start hallucinating after going through over 800 channels of static.,

[worMatty]

Stuff

Holy ****. What he said!

Where do you get your info., Andrew? You look like you have a good grasp of US political goings-on.

[SomePerson]

he's running an advert attacking Obama for sometimes agreeing with him (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec3aC8ZJZTc).

HAHAHAHA that advert is amazing. I'm in shock - that can't possibly be real, can it?.........Oh dear...

[AndrewTaylor]

Holy ****. What he said!

Where do you get your info., Andrew? You look like you have a good grasp of US political goings-on.

I get a lot of it from the Jed Report. McCain is just hours of fun.

[Xinos]

McCain has a nice lump on his cheek.
There's just something about how he talks that creeps me out. He reminds me a bit of both Bush and Montgomery Burns.

[thomasp]

Well... The Simpsons do always portray Burns as the leader of the Republican party, so I can kind of see where you're coming from. All McCain needs is a long pointed nose and that'd be that!

[bonz]

He definitely has the bad health of Burns.
All he'd need was the Finger Pyramid of Evil Contemplation. :D
http://a414.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/76/s_96697f36353d91623c8c9b75bb0cc1c5.png

[SupSuper]

Nintendo can be incredibly clever sometimes (http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii)

[FutureWorm]

Nintendo can be incredibly clever sometimes (http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii)
that is absurdly cool. i can't imagine how long it took to code

[AndrewTaylor]

That's brilliant.

[Squirminator2k]

I'm in love with Nintendo.

[Akuryou13]

that was possibly the neatest thing I've seen in a long time!

[Melon]

I was totally not expecting that! Amazing!

[bloopy]

but by now only someone whose brain is not properly functioning could support McCain.

I disagree. It's not a one-off thing for politicians to lie or make promises that they can't keep. It makes more sense to vote based on your political alignment rather than dwell on the flaws of the particular candidate. Surely having your country go in a direction you don't want it to is much worse than having your president ridiculed in the media?

[Xinos]

That Nintendo thing was awesome!

But more importantly, I feel that the pizza discussion needs to be revived. Today I had the opportunity to photograph the baddest pizza we got.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6201/cimg1201gz6.th.jpg (http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg1201gz6.jpg)http://img145.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
It's quite healthy :)

[FutureWorm]

That Nintendo thing was awesome!

But more importantly, I feel that the pizza discussion needs to be revived. Today I had the opportunity to photograph the baddest pizza we got.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6201/cimg1201gz6.th.jpg (http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg1201gz6.jpg)http://img145.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
It's quite healthy :)
i get physically nauseous looking at that

[Akuryou13]

That Nintendo thing was awesome!

But more importantly, I feel that the pizza discussion needs to be revived. Today I had the opportunity to photograph the baddest pizza we got.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6201/cimg1201gz6.th.jpg (http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg1201gz6.jpg)http://img145.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
It's quite healthy :)that isn't pizza. that's some sort of mutant food-impersonating alien disease.

[Pickleworm]

i get physically nauseous looking at that

I was pretty much going to post this verbatim

[Xinos]

that isn't pizza. that's some sort of mutant food-impersonating alien disease.
Hah, I knew it!. Well, at least they are not all like that. =P

The next time you are hungry just look at that picture and you will be cured and good to go for at least a hour!

[worMatty]

Wow, that looks nice.

[AndrewTaylor]

I disagree. It's not a one-off thing for politicians to lie or make promises that they can't keep. It makes more sense to vote based on your political alignment rather than dwell on the flaws of the particular candidate. Surely having your country go in a direction you don't want it to is much worse than having your president ridiculed in the media?

You say that, but it's a false dilemma. You can pack Congress with Republicans and still have Barack Obama be the one with his calm, rational, well-informed finger on the nuclear button. Besides which, these things come in shades of grey. It's not really the case that conservatives have a choice between being incompetently led forwards or competently led backwards. In most respects Obama wants the same things as McCain: a strong economy, security, low crime, etc. People focus on the differences for obvious reasons, but honestly, a moron on your side will do more damage to your dreams than a smart man you disagree with about the best way to get things done. And there's always the danger that a 75 year old man in a stressful job might die, at which point you have a choice between a smart man you disagree with and a fundamentalist nutcase with less political experience than Weebl and Bob.

In any case, 'his direction' is the same one that over the last seven years has ****ed up the economy, started two wars, tried to 'debunk' climate change, suspended the Geneva Convention and passed laws requiring creationism be taught in schools. I don't see how anyone can support that either.

But mostly, I just don't accept that the fact that other politicians are bad too makes it not matter: the only politician that is credibly running against McCain is Barack Obama, and I think that you will find it very difficult to unearth evidence of him lying or making the kind of phenomenally dumb gaffe that McCain makes every other day.

[bonz]

Reading the "Current Activity" on my profile page, I can see that I'm browsing the OD forum and threads within OD.
Has that been that way before for OD members?
Or has something been changed by accident since the VB update and now everyone can see me browsing secret forums?

I can also see volcadmin browsing the Admin Control Panel. Can't remember that from before. :-/

Edit:
When logged out, as a guest, I can see volcadmin on the Admin Control Panel.

Edit 2:
Nevermind.
Someone browsing OD shows up as "Viewing Thread" only for a guest, so I suppose it's the same for non-OD members.

[thomasp]

Reading the "Current Activity" on my profile page, I can see that I'm browsing the OD forum and threads within OD.
Has that been that way before for OD members?

Yup

Or has something been changed by accident since the VB update and now everyone can see me browsing secret forums?

Don't think so. It shouldn't do, since we use a standard vB way of restricting access to OD.

I can also see volcadmin browsing the Admin Control Panel. Can't remember that from before. :-/

Yup, always been there. And you might see random moderation-related things with me & andrew.

Edit 2:
Nevermind.
Someone browsing OD shows up as "Viewing Thread" only for a guest, so I suppose it's the same for non-OD members.

Yes, it is. That occasionally comes up in OD leak threads that people are just viewing a generic thread rather than a specific one.

[Muzer]

bonz, I'm way ahead of you, I looked at that as soon as I saw it was upgraded. I suppose there is the offchance that in the future someone will look at that and wonder why it doesn't specify a thread... maybe someone could hack it to display "viewing forum index" for non-ODers.

[Pigbuster]

Korean comedian does Starcraft unit impersonations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx4sOAt2EPM

:D

[SupSuper]

As someone who keeps driving random IRC channels into Starcraft quoting wars, that is pretty damn awesome.

Although it still surprises me how he doesn't have to worry about people "not getting it" in Korea. :p

[philby4000]

So 'the Core' was on channel 4 last night.

I never realized lightning was so explosive.

[Alien King]

I never realized lightning was so explosive.

That film proves just how little I know about things like 'Science'.

:rolleyes:

[AndrewTaylor]

So 'the Core' was on channel 4 last night.

I never realized lightning was so explosive.

It is the greatest film ever made. I love that they even threw in a bunch of errors that didn't affect the plot at all -- just in case we thought they knew that the science was wrong but prioritised drama over realism. Nope, they're just dullards.

[Zero72]

It was basically Armageddon going backwards, if memory serves.

[SupSuper]

And yet the writer (http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14288) thinks it's pretty sound.

[Paul.Power]

The trouble with that writer is that he's taking apart something of a strawman argument.

Now this... (http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html)

(He's also complaining that people don't tear apart other movies with the same enthusiasm. Not a valid complaint as, well, the site I got that review from does, for one. (http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/)).

[AndrewTaylor]

And yet the writer (http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14288) thinks it's pretty sound.

The DVD commentary is great -- he points out a couple of other errors I hadn't spotted. But come on, there's a needless science error in the first two minutes, a punctuation error in the last two, a spelling error in the 'destini'/'destiny' caption, and he thinks one is a prime number.

I admire that he tried. But he failed.

[thomasp]

Randomly came across this on YouTube earlier - part of the latest Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors episode to be screened in the USA on November 2nd '08. It seems the Simpsons producers are quite anti-republican...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ&feature=bz301

[bonz]

Randomly came across this on YouTube earlier - part of the latest Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors episode to be screened in the USA on November 2nd '08. It seems the Simpsons producers are quite anti-republican...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ&feature=bz301
I have read that the McCain campaign team isn't pleased that this episode will be aired on November 2nd, two days before the election.

[Squirminator2k]

This is because they think it might sway that guy who's going to vote for them into not voting for them.

[thomasp]

All that clip says to me is that the USA's election process bears many similarities with that of Zimbabwe's. A nice "free" and "fair" election in other words :p

[SupSuper]

So I found this: http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker

If you've got an incessant need to keep your software up to date like me, it's very handy.

[AndrewTaylor]

If anyone wants a full list of thread titles, it's easily done, but it's very, very long. (About 175 excluding typos.)

[Akuryou13]

HAHA! I love the new one :D

[Squirminator2k]

Yes .

[thomasp]

All 183 thread topic title changes. Note that each entry is not what it changed to but what it changed from. I'm sure you'll figure it out :p


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17:16, 19th Sep 2007 thomasp Thread title (original 'The 0.00003% of EVERYTHING EVER Thread!') changed
23:44, 19th Sep 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The ∞% of NOTHING NEVER Thread!') changed
23:52, 20th Sep 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'Save The Cheerleader, Save The 100% Off Topic Thread') changed
01:04, 22nd Sep 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'BANG! And The 100% Off Topic Thread Is Gone!') changed
11:02, 23rd Sep 2007 thomasp Thread title (original 'BANG! Und Der 100% Off Topic Thread Ist Gone!') changed
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[thomasp]

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22:23, 3rd Oct 2007 thomasp Thread title (original 'The 63% Off-Topic Thread (damn quitters)') changed
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01:24, 13th Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The 10% Off-Topic Thread (these quitters are getting really annoying...)') changed
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18:17, 15th Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'I'm CJ, And I've Been A Winner On Beat The Nation, Fifteen To One, and 100% Off Topic') changed
17:57, 17th Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'How Does A 100% Off-topic Thread Look Like?') changed
00:05, 21st Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The X100% Japan Off-Topic Thread') changed
21:02, 22nd Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'Kelster, your 100% off-topic thread is a harshly-coloured monstrosity.') changed
21:03, 22nd Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The Twelve Twelths Off-Topic Thread That Refuses To Go Metric') changed
13:18, 25th Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The Twelve Twelfths Off-Topic Thread That Refuses To Go Metric') changed
16:15, 28th Oct 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'HackerMan's "Rockstar have said this thread is 6,000% off topic MINIMUM" Thread') changed
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22:01, 4th Nov 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'by the way thomasp you can probably un-sticky the 100% off-topic thread') changed
22:39, 7th Nov 2007 thomasp Thread title (original 'Dwarf Fortress: More 100% Off-Topic than MFAH's topic.') changed
11:32, 10th Nov 2007 thomasp Thread title (original 'I Gon Dun Made me a Fred: 100% Off topic Stupidity on the Forum') changed
23:51, 16th Nov 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'Let's Play '100% Offtopic Thread' Again!') changed
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15:15, 23rd Nov 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'Okay its 20% i won't create an off topic thread. And 80% i will.') changed
10:43, 26th Nov 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'Super 100% Off Topic Thread Galaxy') changed
11:14, 29th Nov 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original '100% Off Topic Thread Error. An Email Has Been Sent To The Administrator.') changed
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20:48, 12th Dec 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The 100% Off Topic Thread On Legs') changed
20:17, 16th Dec 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The 100% Off Topic Thread Will Draw You!') changed
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10:24, 22nd Dec 2007 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'Bah, 100% Off Topic Humbig!') changed
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18:37, 30th Jan 2008 AndrewTaylor Thread title (original 'The Ill-Thought Out Intensifier Themed 110% Off-Topic Thread') changed
23:11, 1st Feb 2008 thomasp Thread title (original 'And Now, The 100% Off-Topic Intros Round') changed
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08:42, 27th Feb 2008 thomasp Thread title (original 'The 100% Off Topic Thread Is Gay And It's Great!') changed
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19:17, 12th Mar 2008 thomasp Thread title (original 'Why Was The 100% Off Topic Thread Deleted?') changed
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**Current title: I'm Paul Varley, and I approve the 100% Off Topic Thread**

[Squirminator2k]

Can we just rename this thread "THREAD"?

[thomasp]

The title's only just been changed. Plus it has to have some reference to 100% OT in it :p

[Squirminator2k]

Well you're no fun.

[Squirminator2k]

I have a sudden urge to make a "Taylor/Whateverthomaspslastnameis" campaign logo.

[Muzer]

So I found this: http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker

If you've got an incessant need to keep your software up to date like me, it's very handy.
Or you could get a good distro of linux with a large database of packages, such as Buntu...

[Squirminator2k]

Let's not have this discussion.

[Paul.Power]

Let's not have this discussion.

You came to the right thread.

So, USB numeric keypads. Handy for laptops if you want to play GMod or Dwarf Fortress or something.

[Xinos]

You came to the right thread.

So, USB numeric keypads. Handy for laptops if you want to play GMod or Dwarf Fortress or something.

Yes. That sounds handy. I wish my laptop keyboard had a numeric pad, but it doesn't. However, I'm not sure if the USB keybpad benefits are worth it, I find having stuff on USB annoying. For every thing you plug into a laptop it's mobility is reduced.

[worMatty]

People who need to use an external numerical keypad will be keeping their laptop set up in one place for a decent length of time, won't they?

[AndrewTaylor]

I have a sudden urge to make a "Taylor/Whateverthomaspslastnameis" campaign logo.

It's not Palin.

[bonz]

It's not Palin.
Is it "Power"?
The secret child of Paul?

[Paul.Power]

I think Thomas told me what it was once, but he doesn't want it to become public knowledge.

In lieu of an answer (and because it's funnier), here, have this:

31920

[bloopy]

For every thing you plug into a laptop it's mobility is reduced.

Unless it's wheels or wings.

[bonz]

Unless it's wheels or wings.
Or jet and rocket propulsion.
Or the Chronosphere.

[KRD]

All 183 thread topic title changes. Note that each entry is not what it changed to but what it changed from. I'm sure you'll figure it out :p

Those are so awesome.

I propose "100% Melamine-free Chinese Powdered Milk" after Paul has been elected.

[bonz]

I propose "100% Melamine-free Chinese Powdered Milk" after Paul has been elected.
You need to PM those suggestions to the mods, so you don't spoil the fun in advance. :-/

[SomePerson]

This makes my life! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU

It's a guy with a Ukulele/piano/kazoo all in one.

[Akuryou13]

I don't know if that is more hilarious or pathetic :D

[MtlAngelus]

So just this week I have about enough money to actually buy a wacom cintiq, and the dollar suddenly goes stupidly expensive.
Here's a nice chart.
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&from=USD&to=MXN&submit=Convert

So now it'll actually cost me a lot more than it should.
Maybe I should wait it out. :-/

[Akuryou13]

lol what the hell happened there?!

also, explain the cintiq to me. is it just a fancy monitor or is it an actual computer?

[Xinos]

lol what the hell happened there?!

also, explain the cintiq to me. is it just a fancy monitor or is it an actual computer?

No it's just a fancy tablet monitor.

[FutureWorm]

lol what the hell happened there?!

recent global financial turmoil has, for some reason, caused the dollar to gain significantly on other global currencies

[Kjatte]

is this the 100% offtopic thread? :P

[Muzer]

Indeed .

[AndrewTaylor]

recent global financial turmoil has, for some reason, caused the dollar to gain significantly on other global currencies

It might even approach its usual value...

[Squirminator2k]

Paul Varley was at PAX! And I can prove it!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2810088497_5fbeb8a6b3.jpg

Third Cowboy on the far right, singing the Bad Horse refrain to Felicia Day.

[MtlAngelus]

Ah now I remember where I saw that gal. She was in a House episode.

[Melon]

Isn't she from Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog?

[Squirminator2k]

She is indeed! She's also remarkably cool to hang out with.

[worMatty]

What cowboy wears a bowler hat?

No, that isn't a banker joke.

[SomePerson]

My roommate showed me this cool open source fractal calculating program, XaoS (http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php)

That's some pretty freaking trippy stuff there. :eek:

[FutureWorm]

She is indeed! She's also remarkably cool to hang out with.
well aren't you just hobnobbing with the d-list celebrities

[FutureWorm]

i love getting new shoes

http://h.photos.cx/Photo14-626.jpg

but on another topic, what am i supposed to think about this

http://h.photos.cx/41Yb2yCdJKL._SS500_-e79.jpg

[thomasp]

Yanks will sue anybody or anything for anything: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7673591.stm

[Paul.Power]

Yanks will sue anybody or anything for anything: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7673591.stm

Brilliant. Major props to both Senator Chambers and the judge (as little sense as it makes to support both sides of the argument). Well, assuming they're both joking anyway. Still, as an atheist it's fun to watch from the side and make notes :p.

I wonder what would happen if someone tried to sue Father Christmas? After all, he has a known address (indeed, two known addresses: the North Pole and Lapland).

[MtlAngelus]

I just went trough all the troubles in the world to buy the Watchmen graphic novel. I know I've already read it (how? I'm sure you can put 2+2 together. :p). Why? Well, I think it's easier to re-read it when having a physical copy, and also because it's easier to get other people to read it. :D

[bonz]

I wonder what would happen if someone tried to sue Father Christmas? After all, he has a known address (indeed, two known addresses: the North Pole and Lapland).
I thought he had moved to the Coca Cola HQ in Atlanta, GA, USA many decades ago.

[AndrewTaylor]

Paul Varley was at PAX! And I can prove it!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2810088497_5fbeb8a6b3.jpg

Third Cowboy on the far right, singing the Bad Horse refrain to Felicia Day.
I'm sure I've seen video of someone else Bad Horse Flashmobbing Felicia Day. I vote the next group do alternate lyrics.

These are my suggestion:
You'd think it would enrage her
When everywhere she goes
A group of random strangers
Dressed in cowboy clothes
Sneak up behind Felicia
And start to sing "Bad Horse"...
(It's a group song yet no-one tries
To learn the parts and harmonise...)

[Pickleworm]

i love getting new shoes

http://h.photos.cx/Photo14-626.jpg

http://h.photos.cx/20081017-qr3d3tihyyajctdmtkh87k942-522.jpg
[i]what it look like...

[FutureWorm]

http://h.photos.cx/20081017-qr3d3tihyyajctdmtkh87k942-522.jpg
[i]what it look like...
my shoes > your shoes

[bloopy]

Paul Varley was at PAX! And I can prove it!

What a devilish-looking rapscallion!

[Paul.Power]

I love how I managed to fit the sentence "Admittedly "most vivid memories" is a relative term in regards to cupholders" into the "What browser do you use?" thread :p.

[Akuryou13]

I love how I managed to fit the sentence "Admittedly "most vivid memories" is a relative term in regards to cupholders" into the "What browser do you use?" thread :p.you truly are a master wordsmith. I bow to your expertise.

[Akuryou13]

ya know? I've heard people say jokingly that one day the most revolutionary advance in medical technology would be invented and it would first be released as a video game. well, I just got finished watching an episode of a fairly new show on Discovery called Prototype This! In that episode they designed and built a car that could register its driver's anger level and switch the car into neutral when they got too stressed/angry in order to prevent accidents through road rage situations. they did this through use of the new Emotiv Mind-Control Gaming Headset.

obviously the application they used it for was of relatively minor significance, but if this most basic level of the controller can be used to do something as advanced as that, I can't wait to see what's done with the technology in other fields.

[Paul.Power]

ya know? I've heard people say jokingly that one day the most revolutionary advance in medical technology would be invented and it would first be released as a video game. well, I just got finished watching an episode of a fairly new show on Discovery called Prototype This! In that episode they designed and built a car that could register its driver's anger level and switch the car into neutral when they got too stressed/angry in order to prevent accidents through road rage situationsI would not like to be driving along and the car suddenly went into neutral because I got angry.

It's bad enough when I do it accidentally while slipping from first to second.

[SomePerson]

If I'm angry and my car goes into neutral, that's just going to make me more frustrated, which will make it stay in neutral, etc. I don't feel like your car going into neutral is really going to have a sudden calming effect, or that it's really going to do anything positive.

I see what you mean in some regards about technology, but I dread to think how annoying "brain happiness scans" could get. It's not about how angry you are, it's more about how you control your anger. And if you had to pass a certain "happiness threshold" to board an airplane or that kind of thing, that would be terrible.

[Pickleworm]

my shoes > your shoes

http://h.photos.cx/20081022-1xm6jirin4ke4tqtjqt6u5hhuc-0e7.jpg

I usually wear these...w/e dude. And dont tell me there a thing wrong with rod lavers

[Akuryou13]

I would not like to be driving along and the car suddenly went into neutral because I got angry.

It's bad enough when I do it accidentally while slipping from first to second.I meant it more in terms of the technology available. the idea is a horrible one :p

their suggestion for the idea was to have the cars, in the future, pull off into a pit stop if the driver gets angry. granted, that idea isn't much better.

what impressed me was the idea that we have technology now to adapt situations and objects to your mood. or the ability to scan a person's brain waves in a portable device at all. I look forward to more advanced control of things through brain power once they evolve the technology a bit more. if nothing else, the idea intrigues me.

edit: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37492 awesome way to close the "continue the story!" thread, guys :D

[Paul.Power]

*randomly finds out through Wikipedia that Rhodri Morgan, the First Minister for Wales, is a supporter of the British Humanist Society, along with a whole bunch of other people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Humanist_Association#Distinguished_Support ers)* Awesome.

[Star Worms]

ya know? I've heard people say jokingly that one day the most revolutionary advance in medical technology would be invented and it would first be released as a video game. well, I just got finished watching an episode of a fairly new show on Discovery called Prototype This! In that episode they designed and built a car that could register its driver's anger level and switch the car into neutral when they got too stressed/angry in order to prevent accidents through road rage situations. they did this through use of the new Emotiv Mind-Control Gaming Headset.

obviously the application they used it for was of relatively minor significance, but if this most basic level of the controller can be used to do something as advanced as that, I can't wait to see what's done with the technology in other fields.So basically, don't get angry when in the outside lane on a motorway.

Ford are planning on introducing a parental control system to their cars where parents can set a maximum speed to stop their children driving fast.

What is this world coming to?

[bonz]

Ford are planning on introducing a parental control system to their cars where parents can set a maximum speed to stop their children driving fast.
How the heck do they think that this will that work?

Parents limit speed to 120kph, kiddie crashes the car with 70kph in a 50kph zone.
Parents limit speed to 50kph, kiddie gets crashed from behind by truck when entering the highway.
:rolleyes:

[SupSuper]

Parental control is incredibly paranoid these days. I've seen home laptops for kids that let their parents limit for how long they can use the computer / go online based on an amount of score gained from educational games included.

[worMatty]

Wow. Now is the time we start to automate looking after our kids, too.

[Squirminator2k]

It's been happening for years. It is for this reason that I absolutely detest the LeapFrog Learning Pad, a horrible little device that teaches your children how to read. I'm strongly of the opinion that a child should not have to walk into another room to tell their parents that they can read now. Parents should be more involved in the upbringing of their kids.

Honestly, if you didn't want to look after the child, why'd you have the bloody thing in the first place?

[Akuryou13]

It's been happening for years. It is for this reason that I absolutely detest the LeapFrog Learning Pad, a horrible little device that teaches your children how to read. I'm strongly of the opinion that a child should not have to walk into another room to tell their parents that they can read now. Parents should be more involved in the upbringing of their kids.

Honestly, if you didn't want to look after the child, why'd you have the bloody thing in the first place?lol, exactly. this is a HUGE problem we're having here in america if not everywhere else. parents aren't taking an active part in raising their child but rather using all these neat little toys to do it for them. children are growing into spoiled brats and parents aren't disciplining them as they should be because they're just too lazy to do so. it's bad when people either clap or get offended when someone disciplines their kids in public.....

[FutureWorm]

It's been happening for years. It is for this reason that I absolutely detest the LeapFrog Learning Pad, a horrible little device that teaches your children how to read. I'm strongly of the opinion that a child should not have to walk into another room to tell their parents that they can read now. Parents should be more involved in the upbringing of their kids.

Honestly, if you didn't want to look after the child, why'd you have the bloody thing in the first place?
quite right. although i taught myself to read so

[Pickleworm]

Am I supposed to love or hate google? Because Google Docs might be my most favorite thing ever

[Muzer]

I don't see much point in google docs.

[MrBunsy]

Any computer with web access can get to your docs - very, very handy.

[Muzer]

Just stick em on an FTP server. I have about 5 that people on the internet have offered me :p

I'm sure there's probably an app to synchronise a folder with a folder on an FTP server every hour and at shutdown.

[MrBunsy]

Then you've got to have an ftp client, which are rarely on random library computers.

[bonz]

Then you've got to have an ftp client, which are rarely on random library computers.
Every decent web browser has FTP support.

Besides, I wouldn't want to have Google, the multimillion dollar, data hoarding and web crawling company, to watch over my content.
Content you might want to publish in a scientific magazine or research data that are the base of your whole work.

BTW, I've signed a non-disclosure agreement at the company I'm working for, so I couldn't use applications like Google Docs anyway.
All the data has to stay at the in-house servers, with VPN connections for external access.

[FutureWorm]

Am I supposed to love or hate google? Because Google Docs might be my most favorite thing ever
'scoo !

[AndrewTaylor]

Every decent web browser has FTP support.

That's really not something you want to rely on, and your suggestion is overcomplicated and ugly.

[SupSuper]

I just stuff it all in my e-mail.

[Pickleworm]

Every decent web browser has FTP support.

Besides, I wouldn't want to have Google, the multimillion dollar, data hoarding and web crawling company, to watch over my content.
Content you might want to publish in a scientific magazine or research data that are the base of your whole work.

BTW, I've signed a non-disclosure agreement at the company I'm working for, so I couldn't use applications like Google Docs anyway.
All the data has to stay at the in-house servers, with VPN connections for external access.

Yes but I'm a stupid high school kid and I'm not writing anything groundbreaking here. And Google Docs is ultimately much more convenient and less headachey than using a browser's ftp interface to edit documents with whatever. I was basically asking just to figure out whether we regarded Google as an evil company that's going to steal all our information and brainwash us yet or not.

[AndrewTaylor]

I like Google. They do good things and most of it is free. I know I pay with information, but I don't care: relevant ads are good for me as well. Also, Google seem to be nice people, which is important to me for some reason. Companies like Microsoft, Sony, Nestle and so on always seem quite impersonal and it's easy to see them as the standard capitalist monsters, but Facebook, Google, innocent and suchlike feel more human and I tend to expect morals with that. Of course, you can do that cynically, but generally I think the people who would do that would be bad at it.

[SupSuper]

Good Old Games (http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/) has gone into open beta, for those that missed out before.

[MtlAngelus]

So I went to see Max Payne. A lot of the story was changed, that makes me sad. :(

[Star Worms]

I like Google. They do good things and most of it is free. I know I pay with information, but I don't care: relevant ads are good for me as well. Also, Google seem to be nice people, which is important to me for some reason. Companies like Microsoft, Sony, Nestle and so on always seem quite impersonal and it's easy to see them as the standard capitalist monsters, but Facebook, Google, innocent and suchlike feel more human and I tend to expect morals with that. Of course, you can do that cynically, but generally I think the people who would do that would be bad at it.
I would agree about Google, but not Facebook since it was sold. All they've done is buy the popularity of Facebook. What have they actually done? 1. Made user-submitted applications. I like that. What did they do wrong? Then tons of people ended up with a bazillion application boxes on their profile. Their fault you may say. I think it's Facbook's for making it a default select. After realising their error they obviously decided they needed a way to get rid of all the boxes. And so the crappy new Facebook layout was born.

What I liked about Facebook when I joined was that everything was nice, clean and tidy. Not like MySpace where everyone had ugly designs and pieces of crap all over the place. It was a relief to be able to clearly read things. I liked ow Facebook had everything nice and organised. Now though, I'm not allowed to simply read posts on my wall, I have to click to read each post. And it makes no real sense to merge everything together into the mini-feed. It just doesn't work. Image is everything on the internet, and if Facebook aren't careful, I think people will start moving to another site.

Anyway, rant over. I like Google, but not Facebook.

[worMatty]

What I liked about Facebook when I joined was that everything was nice, clean and tidy. Not like MySpace where everyone had ugly designs and pieces of crap all over the place. It was a relief to be able to clearly read things. I liked ow Facebook had everything nice and organised. Now though, I'm not allowed to simply read posts on my wall, I have to click to read each post. And it makes no real sense to merge everything together into the mini-feed. It just doesn't work. Image is everything on the internet, and if Facebook aren't careful, I think people will start moving to another site.

I dislike clutter on pages, too, Andy. That's why I closed my MySpace account, and also because the place seemed more of a site to accommodate show-offs than a useful social networking app. Some of my Facebook friends do have application overload, and though I refrain from commenting on that, they know my thoughts on it and if they don't, they can probably glean that from looking at my profile. I'm a minimalist when it comes to web apps; I like simplicity but without sacrificing convenience, and I think Facebook achieves this very well.

It took me a little time to get used to the new design but like anything new and complicated, time is needed to adjust. I think the change in layout was necessary, due to what has developed and been added as the service has grown. I imagine it was a difficult task for the developers (drawing from my own minimal experience of trying to shoehorn things in to web pages). But now I know my way around it, I still find it comfortable, clean and fast.

If you prefer the old list style of wall posts, go to your profile, and while on the Wall tab choose 'Posts by others'. They will all be listed for you.

I don't think people will be moving from Facebook at all. Its core functionality remains exactly the same, and if you don't like what other people put on their profiles, you don't have to visit them. These days I receive far less stupid invitations to become a vampire or a drug lord, probably because eventually people realise I don't go for that kind of stuff. Thank Steve they created the 'ignore all' function.

I have a Facebook group to admin, too :-) The Maplin group, which holds 452 members currently. Otherwise I don't use the service a great deal for things like chatting, but my profile is always there for my friends. I couldn't do without it these days. In fact, it's the best way I've found to keep in touch with people. An email address or telephone number written down or saved in a phone's memory could be accidentally lost or deleted. "Do you have Facebook? Search for me," is now all it takes.

Google can have my information. Their email service is, without exaggeration, the best I have ever used, including POP and IMAP, and I am so glad my current ISP Be* do not supply one for as part of their packages, because I wouldn't have looked at Google Mail seriously. My only disappointment is that my address isn't really an @gmail.com one, it's @googlemail.com, but I can still receive mail to @gmail.com so that's the domain I publish my address with, and what I put in the reply-to field. Sadly, a decent mail client will still display the email as coming from me @googlemail, even though it constructs reply emails to the other.

[AndrewTaylor]

I like the new Facebook look, too. I literally can't understand what the perceived problem with it is. To be honest, I read wall posts in GMail, though, so maybe if other people use the site differently then the changes will be different to them.

[SupSuper]

Facebook is awesome because you can set the language as "English (Pirate)". :cool:

[worMatty]

For ten minutes, yes.

Speaking of Facebook, I used their Help system recently and submitted a request to add Chester as a regional network. I got an email saying they planned to include it as part of their next update! Hopefully other cities will be included. Presently I can only choose Manchester or Liverpool; Wrexham seems to have been removed.

[Xinos]

So I went to see Max Payne. A lot of the story was changed, that makes me sad. :(

Why do you want to see a story you already know?

[MtlAngelus]

Why do you want to see a story you already know?

Why do you re-read a book you've already read?
Why do you watch a movie you've seen before, or a re-make of a movie you've seen before? Or replay a game you've played before? Re-listen a song you've listened to before?

It's a really stupid question to ask. :p

[SupSuper]

from: Gareth Manderson <mahamadi@kele.com.cn>
to: webmasters@dream17.co.uk
date: 25 de Outubro de 2008 22:55
subject: Recession Fears Stoke Global Market Woes

Markets in tailspin
Always good to know.

[worMatty]

Why do you re-read a book you've already read?
Why do you watch a movie you've seen before, or a re-make of a movie you've seen before? Or replay a game you've played before? Re-listen a song you've listened to before?

It's a really stupid question to ask. :p

On the other hand, why do we get bored of things we already know and like to see things that are different? Xinos has a point.

[bonz]

On the other hand, why do we get bored of things we already know and like to see things that are different?
Because those things were boring, shallow and easily predictable in the first place.

[MtlAngelus]

On the other hand, why do we get bored of things we already know and like to see things that are different? Xinos has a point.
I'm all in for new takes on stuff I already know(I loved the new take on the Joker on the Dark Knight), but not when they not only add nothing to the story, but actually take a lot away from it.

[Pickleworm]

Why do you want to see a story you already know?

*re-reads a story*
*doesn't get anything new from it, ever*

[AndrewTaylor]

On the other hand, why do we get bored of things we already know and like to see things that are different?
Nobody does that.

[worMatty]

Yes they do.

[Pickleworm]

Yes they do.

It's because those things sucked and lacked replay value anything that matters that you truly enjoy you will be able to enjoy with lasting value, which would you rather watch on tv for the rest of eternity, "meet the fockers" or "eraserhead"

[AndrewTaylor]

Yes they do.
I put it to you that Coldplay still exist. People like to see the same stuff they've seen forever, over and over forever, and those that don't are rare and precious.

On an unrelated note (http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/10/27/somebody-is-going-to-get-fired/),
I never would have guessed Governor Sarah Palin had a style team. Her outfits are so hideous and her hair is quite unprofessional looking.

[Paul.Power]

I love rereading stuff I've already read. Sometimes I pick up new stuff, but mostly it's "oh, that was an awesome bit, I want to have it transferred from the printed page through my eyes into my brain again".

[Paul.Power]

Jim Davis on Garfield Minus Garfield (http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/):

“I think it’s an inspired thing to do,” Davis said. “I want to thank Dan for enabling me to see another side of Garfield. Some of the strips he chose were slappers: ‘Oh, I could have left that out.’ It would have been funnier.”

Hey, looks like he has got some soul left.

The specific press release (http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/day/2008/07/31/)

[Zero72]

I gotta admit, amazon.com impresses me sometimes. Having spent 20 minutes in my turned-off car beaming Lordi to my radio and having the hell rocked out of me for the first time in a while, imagine my thrill when I found an email a few minutes later saying "Hey, we have exactly what you want -- Lordi's new album Deadache, and we have it for $14!" It wasn't even one of those "Hi there, you bought this, so you might like these" ones they periodically send out, this was a specific "We know you want this" one. Bull'seye. Maybe not so technically impressive since I've bought every other Lordi album off them, but still. Their strategy must be a damn efficient one. Show people what they want via buying-history-sensitive recommendations, and then make the purchasing process extremely fast and easy.

Edit: They're so good at the buying-history-based recommending, in fact, that after I bought a specific USB WiFi Connector, Monster Hunter Freedom 2 started coming up in my recommendations. Most of you probably know that this is something I already have, and in fact, is the very reason I bought the connector.

[Muzer]

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37261

[Akuryou13]

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37261yes. already in the stupidity thread :p

[Muzer]

yes. already in the stupidity thread http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/newsmilies/tongue.gif
Whoops, wrong thread.


I think I might give Kubuntu-KDE4 another chance.

[Star Worms]

Go Hamilton!





That is all.

[thomasp]

Awesome telly tonight - nail-biting finish to the F1 (don't think a championship's ever been decided so late in the season!) and Top Gear messing about with artics Strictly Come Dancing :D

[Paul.Power]

Awesome telly tonight - nail-biting finish to the F1 (don't think a championship's ever been decided so late in the season!)Well, apart from last time.

Although in terms of "decided by one guy overtaking another on the final lap in the final race", then yes, probably the latest.

[Star Worms]

Well, apart from last time.

Although in terms of "decided by one guy overtaking another on the final lap in the final race", then yes, probably the latest.And on one of the very last corners too.

I thought he'd lost it (as I'm sure anyone watching did).

[Xinos]

I like our "Spawn Car" key. In a very short time the level can be filled with buggys that just drive around aimlessly.

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/8903/carspawnve4.th.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=carspawnve4.jpg)http://img381.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

I am amazed at the fact that polygons don't seem to make much of a difference in terms of framerate. Each buggy in that picture is about 18000 polygons. What makes it slow down is that each buggy has physics properties and they are colliding into each other.

[AndrewTaylor]

In case any of you haven't been paying attention, I've rigged my laptop so I can play music using a Wii Guitar Hero controller.

http://www.realvg.org/display.php?type=articles&id=259

I love how fast writing code is in C#. It makes this kind of tinkering much more accessible.

[Muzer]

I stopped reading at the word "C#".

[Star Worms]

Go Obama!





That is all.

[AndrewTaylor]

I stopped reading at the word "C#".

That's rarely wise in anything about music.

[thomasp]

Especially if you're playing Beethoven's 14th Piano Sonata.

[bloopy]

New Zealand election is coming up this Saturday. It's pretty much certain that we're getting a different prime minister simply because most people are tired of the current political party & leader.

[Muzer]

That's rarely wise in anything about music.
LOL!

Well, in music, you generally tend to see it written on a stave, not actually written "C#". Then it looks something more like #d but the d looking more like a note and having a line going through it. (or not, if it's in a space)

[SupSuper]

Really cheap games! Audiosurf (http://store.steampowered.com/app/12900/) and Eets (http://store.steampowered.com/app/6100/) for just $2.49 each!

[Zero72]

Decided to look up that Face Your Manga (www.faceyourmanga.com) thingy I'd been seeing products of around the Internet here and there...

32052

Not too bad.

I printscreened the result rather than give them my email address, by the way. I looked at the privacy statement, but it was in Spanish (despite "lang=eng" in the url) and apparently they want to send you a jpeg anyway. Why bother with that?

[Paul.Power]

Oh right, that. I wondered where they were all coming from.

dammit, why are all the eyebrows bar one set angry ones.

dammit, why isn't there a dark brown.

[bonz]

Makes me look like a child...
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8712/bonzmangaeu0.png

[Paul.Power]

Oh hey, not far to post 14444.

[Akuryou13]

Oh hey, not far to post 14444.is this an important number?

reasonably accurate:
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/719/faceyourmangauq9.jpg

[Blinx]

Here's me.
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/846/paranoidandroid1hotmailnx7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Muzer]

Can't be arsed to get flash working :p

[Paul.Power]

is this an important number?
No, but it looks nice.

[MtlAngelus]

I printscreened the result rather than give them my email address, by the way. I looked at the privacy statement, but it was in Spanish (despite "lang=eng" in the url) and apparently they want to send you a jpeg anyway. Why bother with that?
That's Italian, actually. :p

Anyway:
:cool:

[Xinos]

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/6443/mangafacehb3.jpg

My hair is not that blond. But it was more accurate than any of the sites browns. Oh well.

[FutureWorm]

I printscreened the result rather than give them my email address, by the way. I looked at the privacy statement, but it was in Spanish (despite "lang=eng" in the url) and apparently they want to send you a jpeg anyway. Why bother with that?

that's italian dude

e: ah **** i read thread good

[Akuryou13]

My hair is not that blond. But it was more accurate than any of the sites browns. Oh well.yeah I had that problem too. the shade I went with looks kinda sickening but it's the only thing that isn't bright blonde or dark brown.

[Pickleworm]

i spent like an hour+ drawing a picture

it only saved one layer

this is the layer it saved:

http://h.photos.cx/anime-fbd.gif

woot

[Zero72]

That's Italian, actually. :pHeh, whoops. I only glanced at it. :p

[MonkeyforaHead]

e - i - e - i - o

[KRD]

Not really, though. My hair's actually really long and mostly kept behind my ears these days, but I couldn't find anything appropriate; technically I am planning a haircut anyway. Also, I can only wish I could grow a beard at least remotely resembling that. :eek:

[GoDxWyvern]

Actually pretty accurate, though I wish I had a Space Invaders shirt.

Edit: Too bad these are too big for a new fad, eh. :P

[Akuryou13]

Edit: Too bad these are too big for a new fad, eh. :Phardly. it would take all of 5 seconds for me or someone with a similar program to shrink them.

[worMatty]

Is it possible to not look evil or smug in that anime avatar app?

[Paul.Power]

Is it possible to not look evil or smug in that anime avatar app?
There is one set of eyebrows that does it.

However, they look stupid.

[SupSuper]

Edit: Too bad these are too big for a new fad, eh. :PThis fad has long hit the rest of the internet though so it wouldn't be as shocking.

[Star Worms]

As always I either have to have bright orange hair or brown hair...

[Akuryou13]

As always I either have to have bright orange hair or brown hair...I love how video games, avatar sites, etc all think that the only way to be a red head is to have bright carrot-colored hair. it amuses me and it never fails to be true.

[Xinos]

I love how video games, avatar sites, etc all think that the only way to be a red head is to have bright carrot-colored hair. it amuses me and it never fails to be true.

It's probably because they all just copy each other and just think about ratings. The sites are still popular and they all get away with it. So why bother?

[Pickleworm]

It's probably because they all just copy each other and just think about ratings. The sites are still popular and they all get away with it. So why bother?

f*cking hair color conspiracy... down with games

[Zero72]

I love how video games, avatar sites, etc all think that the only way to be a red head is to have bright carrot-colored hair. it amuses me and it never fails to be true.And, ironically, I'm probably the only one here whose Face Your Manga result actually has a reasonably close hair color. :p

[Akuryou13]

And, ironically, I'm probably the only one here whose Face Your Manga result actually has a reasonably close hair color. :pmine's pretty close if not for the sickly shade of it.

[Akuryou13]

I enjoyed this FAR too much not to share:

http://www.somethingpositive.net/arch/sp11102008.gif

[AndrewTaylor]

I love how video games, avatar sites, etc all think that the only way to be a red head is to have bright carrot-colored hair. it amuses me and it never fails to be true.

Miis don't even get that. Blond, brown or black are your options.

[SupSuper]

Or none.

[worMatty]

Good find, Nathan.

[Star Worms]

It reminds me of the difference between babies and bowling balls.

[Muzer]

It reminds me of the difference between babies and bowling balls.
What's that?

[/complete lack of knowledge of jokes]

[AndrewTaylor]

If you throw a baby in the gutter it doesn't come back.

[Star Worms]

What's that?

[/complete lack of knowledge of jokes]

You can't unload a truckload of bowling balls with a pitchfork.

[AndrewTaylor]

You can only get one finger in a baby.

[Akuryou13]

You can only get one finger in a baby. *awards andrew the "Most Inappropriate Statement of the Year" award :eek:

[Akuryou13]

I think I found myself a new gaming mouse!

15 buttons = awesome in a can

http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/partners

[FutureWorm]

you can only get one finger in a baby.

nnnnnnnnnnice

[Star Worms]

How do you get a baby in a jar?



Using a blender.



How do you get it out again?



Nachos.

[thomasp]

Thank you for that Star Worms, I had just eaten :p

[MrBunsy]

There are far worse :p

On a different note, these arrived in the post this morning!

http://www.lukewallin.co.uk/images/bunnies.jpg

[MtlAngelus]

I think I found myself a new gaming mouse!

15 buttons = awesome in a can

http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/partners

Overkill? :p

[Akuryou13]

On a different note, these arrived in the post this morning!did you file a formal complaint?

Overkill? :pwell I've got 9 buttons on my mouse, but only 4 of them are usable. so having 15 buttons would equal about 8 usable buttons. basically, just what my mouse has plus the D pad. I think that sounds very nice, personally.

:mad::mad: MOAR BUTTONZ!!! :mad::mad:

[MrBunsy]

did you file a formal complaint?
You hurt their feelings :(

[FutureWorm]

There are far worse :p

On a different note, these arrived in the post this morning!

awwwwwwwwwwwww

[worMatty]

The style of that mouse resembles the house robots from the UK Robot Wars TV show.

[philby4000]

The style of that mouse resembles the house robots from the UK Robot Wars TV show.
Holy crap, it's Sir Killalot.

[Akuryou13]

Holy crap, it's Sir Killalot.the knight with the spear thing? I don't see the resemblance.

[Akuryou13]

holy crap. this guy's a friggin GENIUS! it makes PERFECT SENSE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn2UCqL5qyo

I challenge any of you to dispute the theory! in fact, I challenge any of you to understand the theory enough to even consider disputing it!

edit: also, this thread from The Escapist is a great read: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.71500?page=1

[Muzer]

I got scared and closed the tab after the first sentance :p

[Paul.Power]

That "stupid things people say" thread is like the proverbial car crash.

Saying that, I have just looked away, so...

[Akuryou13]

I got scared and closed the tab after the first sentance :pbut then you've missed comic gems like:

"Russia's Czar will never stop invading random countries, like he has for the last ten years, until he allows a revote for Cuba's next president who will hopefully sell the nuclear weapons Russian gave them and has been forcing Cuba to threaten America with. When theat happens, China will have the chance they have been looking for to invade from the north and take Russia once and for all."

also, I seem to have linked to page 4. I'll go fix that.

[Star Worms]

Anyone know of a decent program that can convert excel tables into html?

And before you say, Excel can't do it properly - I have tried. It alters the widths of the columns and overlaps the text.

[AndrewTaylor]

Export to csv and then find-replace works pretty well.

[Xinos]

The Left 4 Dead demo is out and is awesome!

I was playing it all night with some friends last night. I was quite impressed by it. Very solid gameplay and fantastic animations. I just love seeing all those zombies tumble when they are shot running :D

[MtlAngelus]

The tank is awesome. And deadly. And awesome.
Unfortunately my teammates usually run away from it and leave me alone facing it. :P

[Star Worms]

Export to csv and then find-replace works pretty well.I found a similar tip online, which said that Dreamweaver can import table data (after converting to csv).

I also read during my internet travels that in court Microsoft admitted to deliberately doing this to make it only work with Internet Explorer.

[Pickleworm]

I need to figure out where these two curves intersect:

2x^2+3y^2=5
y^2=x^3

I've already found the answer by just plugging it into my calculator, but I need to solve it algebraically in order to receive full credit. I know that I'd find out the point(s) of intersection if I just solve this system of equations, but when I substitute I get

3x^3+2x^2-5=0

And unless I'm mistaken, that doesn't factor. There's a flake of a memory of how to solve for the roots of the equation without factoring, but it was convoluted and was pretty much guess and check. Is there anyone who knows how to solve this? It seems like it should be really simple as the answers are just (1,1) and (1,-1) but maybe my mind isn't working in the right way at the moment

[Akuryou13]

*cues paul*

[Paul.Power]

I need to figure out where these two curves intersect:

2x^2+3y^2=5
y^2=x^3

I've already found the answer by just plugging it into my calculator, but I need to solve it algebraically in order to receive full credit. I know that I'd find out the point(s) of intersection if I just solve this system of equations, but when I substitute I get

3x^3+2x^2-5=0

And unless I'm mistaken, that doesn't factor. There's a flake of a memory of how to solve for the roots of the equation without factoring, but it was convoluted and was pretty much guess and check. Is there anyone who knows how to solve this? It seems like it should be really simple as the answers are just (1,1) and (1,-1) but maybe my mind isn't working in the right way at the momentWell, if the answers are that simple then it has to factor. You know from your calculator that x = 1 is in the solutions, so "try" long dividing 3x^3+2x^2+0x-5 by (x-1). I'll bet the other two roots are complex, but that's not the issue as long as you show that they're complex and therefore not of interest. And once you have x, y is a walk in the park.

[Star Worms]

I need to figure out where these two curves intersect:

2x^2+3y^2=5
y^2=x^3

I've already found the answer by just plugging it into my calculator, but I need to solve it algebraically in order to receive full credit. I know that I'd find out the point(s) of intersection if I just solve this system of equations, but when I substitute I get

3x^3+2x^2-5=0

And unless I'm mistaken, that doesn't factor. There's a flake of a memory of how to solve for the roots of the equation without factoring, but it was convoluted and was pretty much guess and check. Is there anyone who knows how to solve this? It seems like it should be really simple as the answers are just (1,1) and (1,-1) but maybe my mind isn't working in the right way at the momentHow about this?

2x^2+3y^2=5
y^2=x^3

2x^2+3y^2 -5 =0
3y^2 - 3x^3 = 0

2x^2+3y^2 -5 = 3y^2 - 3x^3

2x^2 -5 = - 3x^3

2x^2 + 3x^3 - 5 = 0

x^2(2+3x) - 5 = 0

so x = 1

Then plug that into one of the original formulas

y^2=x^3
y^2=1
y= +1 or -1

And just to double check:

2x^2+3y^2=5
2 + 3y^2 = 5
3y^2=3
y^2=1
y= +1 or -1

ie (1,1) and (1,-1)