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  1. Re:Visual Basic?? on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    C#. Or rather than learning new languages, maybe try learning a real language (Mandarin, etc) or focus on improving your ability with C++. Make something and sell it.

  2. Re:Visual Basic?? on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I believe that she is not well-suited to be a programmer.

    Then rather than spending 1500 a semester on it, maybe she should pick something she would be better at. Or just to treat it as a hobby.

    Maybe you can call Simon Cowell and have him explain ill-suited career ambitions?

  3. Re:Unreal 101 on Unreal Gets Annihilated, Community Bonus · · Score: 1
    Holy smokes. Not at the evolution of the engine, but of your knowledge of it. Maybe they should hire you.

    BTW - I think the Deep Space 9 game, The Fallen, was an excellent and incredible use of the Unreal engine.

  4. Visual Basic?? on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If this is too difficult, then your mom really isn't interested in applying herself. Tell her to find a better hobby and stop wasting your time if she isn't going to take it seriously.

    Yeah, I'm tired of all this "old people can't do this stuff" line of thinking. If they had an interest, they would. My mother taught herself a bunch of stuff with the comp and took classes at the local community college in Unix, etc. at age 50+. Point is, if your mom had an interest, and she's not a retard, she would be able to handle VB.

  5. Re:simple on Browser Wars Mark II · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The article is about the treat that Microsoft poses to the web as we know it.

    Is it a salty tasty treat or a sweet tasty treat?

    Oh, and your mispelling agrees with my point of view that embrace+extend is about giving greater capabilities to web developers and users. Why does MS have this interest? They want to lock in their way of using the web. I don't see a PROBLEM here. I see a benefit. Someone wants to make the web more capable to persuade me to use their services. GREAT!

    Come on and admit it that you are angry that Web standards aren't being established by a commune of burnt out hippies on the WC3 (warcraft 3??) or whatever but are instead being made by folks who wear suits and have big houses. (Pardon my troll).

  6. UT2003 vs 2004? on Unreal Gets Annihilated, Community Bonus · · Score: 1
    Technically, are there many graphical differences? I have played both but have a hard time seeing them.

    I'm also of the understanding that Unreal 2 is a new engine, whearas the engine used for UT2003/2004 is the same original engine, just modified.

  7. Re:Carry a gun on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1
    You are playing simantic games that a 5 year old could see through and no one is impressed. Stealing is stealing and music piracy does make you a thief. Thieves are those who use other's property against the owner's will.

    What more can I say.

  8. Re:Carry a gun on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    You are playing simantic games that a 5 year old could see through and no one is impressed. Stealing is stealing and music piracy does make you a thief. Thieves are those who use other's property against the owner's will.

  9. Re:Carry a gun on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    No, but thieves in denial think they aren't stealing with all kinds of crazy rationalizations.

    If it wasn't stealing, the RIAA wouldn't be getting any convictions or settlements.

  10. What about prime triplets? on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 2, Interesting
    3, 5, 7?

    Or prime siblings that are seperated by numbers other than 2?

    Just seems silly. I mean, they all probably exist in infinity.

  11. Hope it's better than Driver 2 on Driv3r - Atari's Savior, Or Lara Croft-Style Travesty? · · Score: 1

    I had to write a review of Driver 2. Problem was I found it so hard I couldn't get off of the training level (this was the PC version). And I didn't find the PS version any easier.

  12. Re:iPod and UFS on Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod Competitors · · Score: 1
    I was speaking to a lawyer who specializes in software liscencing. He said he cautions his clients not to use GPL because of this reason. According to a report he wrote for a major international organization, he belives that, if tested, US courts would uphold GPL.

    I wonder why no one else has responded to this.

  13. Re:Yea But on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 1
    RAther than retyping, when you get the 20 second rule screen, just wait about 20 seconds and press F5. That resubmits the data and you don't have to retype it.

    Rather, F5 if you are using IE.

  14. Re:Poker odd distribution on Geeks and Poker? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's a good point. I was unsure if there was something else out there just out of my grasp.

  15. Xbox DDR on XBox Now Your Personal Fitness Trainer? · · Score: 1
    I guess this thread might be the place to ask.

    So yesteray I happened by an arcade and decided to try this DDR thing. I did NOT get very far. And the girl who was at the desk saw me and immediatly came over afterwards and schooled me.

    I've always wanted to get into the DDR thing and would getting the Xbox DDR2Ultra or whatever approximate the arcade? Are the floor mats about the same size? Can you stand on carpet to play it?

  16. Poker odd distribution on Geeks and Poker? · · Score: 1
    I was wondering if the following can be taken advantage of in Poker.

    Consider that a flush beats a straight. And that a straight beats a three-of-a-kind. Each of these has an increment of ONE over or below the other.

    However, the ODDS of getting one over the other is tremendous, sometimes a multiple of the hand that is but one step below it.

    So is it possible to take advantage of there being tremendous differences between the odds of hands that have an incriment of only one hierarchical step above each other?

    Just something I was wondering about.

  17. Matrix brand was damaged. on WB Using Game Reviews To Calculate Royalties · · Score: 1
    However, Bruno Bonnell, CEO of Atari, makers of Enter The Matrix, which didn't include this contract clause, comments: "We sold four million copies. That's $250 million worldwide... and Warner Bros. would penalize us because we didn't achieve 70%? Are they joking?"

    Mr. Bonnell made a game that sucked royally. He did severe damage to the brand in that if the game was decent, a sequel could be made that would do equally well. Also, the game would have sold much more than 250mil if it had gotten a good review - I would have bought it. But the reviews STANK so I didn't. Mr. Bonnell should be fired for his lack of intelligence in recognizing this.

  18. Re:3D? Nah... on Will Wright Talks New Sim City, 'Uncollecting' · · Score: 1

    It does work. It's called Sim City 4. Came out over a year ago.

  19. Re:What about using the most obvious Nuclear Energ on Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Something else along that line. Notice how over the last twenty years gasoline prices in the US seem to be immune to the effects of inflation.

  20. Re:Not to be compared with Second Life on There Inc. Stops Consumer 'Virtual World' Updates · · Score: 1

    Tried it. Dropped after 7 days. Conflicting interests of my own plus bugs destroying things plus the fact that I would have prefered to be able to create off line in a non-laggy environment and then move them into the world.

  21. Not to be compared with Second Life on There Inc. Stops Consumer 'Virtual World' Updates · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Second Life was a limitless environment - people living inside of a CAD programing environment. You could *create* your own RPG or FPS or whatever within it. Mostly I created odd architectual objects and star trek uniforms. But you could really create any kind of object and program scripts to make it do pretty much anything.

    Most people just built houses and furniture, but some were exceptionally creative and ambitious.

    Compare There to the Sims Online maybe. Not to Second Life.

  22. Re:The Music on John Woo to Direct Spy Hunter Movie? · · Score: 1
    Don't forget probably his most memorable work - "Moon River."

    One time at band camp.... heh, really, we did a very nice medley of all of Mancini's best known songs. The solo in Panther was for the sax and made us trumpets jelous.

  23. I'm getting into line now. on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 1

    Yes sirii. I want to be sure to get tickets to this winner!

  24. Re:Scary part is that they can afford it on EA To Get Exclusive NFL Player Rights? · · Score: 1

    FYI - MS announced they are canceling most of their sports, including Fever.

  25. Re:Sega Sports Series / Virtual Concepts on Sammy Finally To Purchase Sega · · Score: 1

    Yep. And when I had an Xbox I would play the Segasports games on Live.