At 10/12/09 02:48 PM, brewbeer wrote: Not all of them are on that list yet.

Yes, they are. Any submission that's got approved medals is automatically on that list.

Publish settings of WHAT? The FLA you're publishing, or what you're doing with the WAV file when exporting it and then doing a fresh import into the FLA, before exporting the FLA to SWF? I can't stress how important it is to be as detailed as possible when you're describing problems like this, and what you've done to try and fix those problems.

I would imagine this is to do with bit rate/sample rate. Try it at 16 bit, 44.1khz. Also, next time try the Flash forum, since although this is an audio related question (and would otherwise belong there), it's actually the import into flash that's causing you the problems and I can guarantee you won't be the first person to have come across this problem before.

You submitted a track in 2008.

Date Submitted
07/15/2008 | 12:47PM EDT

At 10/7/09 08:45 AM, citricsquid wrote: How fast is mysql_num_rows compared to count, is it a noticeable difference?

Yes. "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table"; will always return ONE row with one cell (unless you're doing somethign like "SELECT COUNT(*), AVG(somefield) FROM table[ GROUP BY whatever]", which would give you two cells etc), even if the output is 0 (i.e. the dataset is empty.) "SELECT [whatever] FROM table [WHERE... GROUP BY.... ORDER BY....etc]"; and then analysing that dataset with mysql_num_rows() will force the database to retrieve every row in the database that matches the query. Doing this just to get a tally of the number of entries is assinine.

Imagine you have 1 million rows in your table and all you want is the total number of entries in that table. You really don't want to sit waiting around for a query to fetch every single row back from the table just to get that total, which is what you'd be doing by selecting a dataset and then running that through mysql_num_rows().

Here's an example of output from a COUNT():

+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
|  1951870 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

At 10/6/09 11:15 AM, ThePortalGuru wrote: This is something very strange that happened to me recently. I set my date and time back to 1989 to see what effect it would have on the internet. Yahoo and other stuff didn't work, of course, but I was surprised to find that Newgrounds had in fact logged me off of my regular account, and logged me into the user Deleted's account.

I found it strange at first, so I tried to log off, but it wouldn't let me. I was able to send PMs and post new newsposts under the account, but when I tried to post on the BBS, it didn't recognize me as logged in.

This is an error that is very new and odd to me, and I think other users' security would benefit if this was fixed. This may be an error only I experience, so if anyone else could try it out and come back with results, that would be great.

Oh really?

The last login from the "deleted" account was 2007-07-27 01:31:01.

He hasn't ever sent any private messages since the event log archive was centralised in July 2007.

He has no news posts.

The simple fact of the matter is that when you mess around with your date and time settings, the browser gets confused and displays "deleted" as the username because it gets confused with the expiry of the cookie and the "current date" it think's it's at.

It's the top 10,000 (I think) users who've been actively voting in the prior month. Therefore, 27,000 or however many more above him, did not vote last month and weren't included in the pool. He did vote last month, so he was one of the 10,000 users who actively voted and was therefore included.

Next month, he might not get in, if other users with more experience than him vote again in that time period.

At 10/3/09 07:13 PM, Shreddy wrote: so $5000 from the sale of all of these going to Nathan, i see hes not willing to actually invest any chunk of his own money into this documentary

with a budget of this size it best be damn good

I really don't understand your logic.

This project of Nathan's has been in the works since November 2008. Not only has he invested his own money in getting it off the ground, he's also invested a lot of time making things like the Plushies to fund what he's doing. If he'd been in the UK, he'd have gotten a great deal more in all this time from just being on benefits. You'd get more in student loans, etc, etc. It's not like he's asking for handouts.

By the time you factor in travelling thousands of miles, food and accommodation costs, you certainly wouldn't get any change out of $5,000. If you think you can do better, then I suggest you do it, rather than belittling other people for trying.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3A newgrounds.com%2Fportal%2F+%22staff+comm ent%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mo zilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

At 10/1/09 01:01 PM, denverbroncos59 wrote: Oh I didn't see that thread. I looked down the general forum page and didn't see any topics relating to it so I figured it wasn't addressed yet. I apologize for wasting thread space. You can close/delete this if you want haha. Thanks for the help

You have absolutely no reason to apologise, that thread was a day or two old and would have disappeared into the abyss of the general forum by now. I just wanted to point out that this issue has been raised and that we're aware of it. :)

I don't think there's any shame in talking about or admitting this, for those of you have told this guy to "man up" or "lock the thread". I think it takes a bigger man (mentally, rather than physically) to own up to this kind of thing than someone who's prepared to diss that person over a public forum.

It seems to me that it's a reasonably common problem in both males and females.

I've gone through it a couple of times, most notably for me at a U2 concert, where there were around 50 urinals in the toilets at the stadium I was at, and a queue of people behind each urinal. What made it worse there, was that there were drunken women coming in and out of the place as well - peeing on demand in public view is un-nerving, I would imagine, for a lot of people.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you start having difficulties when peeing in private, then go to the doctor and explain your symptoms, because prostate cancer (and other illnesses) is not something you'd want to end up with, left undiagnosed.

We are attempting to rectify this issue. Please read my comments here:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1108 330/2

At 10/1/09 10:01 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: o_O

I can understand if you mix music, but I can't ever imagine dropping that kind of cash for head phones...

Thing is, the only thing I can even listen to music on anymore and enjoy it is this set of old Boston speakers I inherited from my parents. Anything coming out of this modern stuff just doesn't compare to some cheep wood vibrating along with the music... and though I'm sure 100 - 1000 dollars would sufficiently increase my enjoyment of music, I don't think I could bring my self to do it. :o

It all depends on what you're wanting from music. If you appreciate the subtleties of what you're listening to, you go for the higher end stuff. If you take a track like Radian by Air (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U42tNCEI THc), you can really pick out the details of each instruments etc on a decent set of headphones or monitors. Details that would otherwise be lost on cheaper alternatives (in that track, on a good set of headphones or monitors, you can almost feel like you're right there in the room with the people who're playing the instruments.) Oh, and if you're going to listen to that track I linked, keep in mind that it's going to have been compressed significantly, you're better off getting a CD when trying to draw comparisons.

The "modern stuff" as you put it actually offers much more clarity than anything in the past, but you have to be prepared to pay the right amount of cash to get the right system. One of my friends is heavily into music and took out a loan several years ago to pay nearly £4,000 (around $6,5000) for an Arcam system that literally would blow your mind if you heard the clarity that comes from it. And he opted for a cheaper setup than he was actually after. I've noticed that Arcam have since started offering smaller, more budgetable, setups.

As for the next set of headphones I plan on getting - they will probably be either the Beyerdynamic DT 100 or Beyerdynamic DT 150's, which are designed for studio work and broadcasting etc and cost around $170, though I was talking to Shok a while ago about this and he recommended other sets.... which I've since forgotten. I'll have to ask him again, I guess.

At 10/1/09 08:59 AM, zrick wrote:

At 10/1/09 08:52 AM, liljim wrote: I have a couple of pairs (different models). Did yours come with a ridiculously long jack lead? Both sets of mine did.

Erm, I wouldn't say the jack lead is ridiculously long but it's definitely longer than I expected. How come you have a few pairs of them? Do you work in a studio etc or are you just a fan of headphones or something?

Well, you can read my pet peeve about the cables they came with here (and an idea as to why I got two pairs): http://liljim.newgrounds.com/news/post/9 6705

I'm just not comfortable with the in-ear headsets, so canned sets are a must for me, since I tend to listen to music all day long. And I do have a home studio, so aside from recreational listening, I'm also listening back to music I've recorded quite regularly.

Simon: what model did you go for? Also, if your pair comes with a shorter lead than you need (read comments in the link I posted above), be sure to take the headset to a store with you and check that any new leads you might buy fit.

I have a couple of pairs (different models). Did yours come with a ridiculously long jack lead? Both sets of mine did.

HW - The Celts (non-album), by haywirehaywire Type: SongGenre: Hip Hop - Olskool

T.H.C-Mental Madness, by UncleSqueezins Type: SongGenre: Techno

Fall, by Cayler Type: SongGenre: Pop

Elements (Orginal Song), by TerraNation Type: SongGenre: Trance

Tech Carnival! [HOUSE], by MMANNYY Type: SongGenre: House

Those are the top 5 for last week. Go to google -> type in "newgrounds audio". Top link should be the front page of the audio portal. Click "cached". You will have to be fast, as google indexes newgrounds regularly, meaning that what I just saw probably won't be there for long.

Check your junk mail folder. It's also possible that some of your favs haven't submitted anything recently.

I'm pretty sure those e-mails still go out.

Try Trilogy / Trillian:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvmY-50Lx 5E
http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments /trilogy/demos.html

Hiya.

None of this is really my business, as I:

a) don't live in the US
b) left school years ago

etc.

However, I do have some questions for the school goers in the US - what sort of hours do you usually go through? When are the holidays, and how long do they last?

My Mum was a teacher, she's now retired, but since she retired, the school she taught at has gotten a new headmaster and he's switched teaching times around.

When I was at school (and I'm going back over 14 years now), we used to have to be in for registration in our tutor groups for around 8:45am. We'd then start classes at 9:05am. Each class would last around 40 minutes, some classes would double up, so that you'd have a consecutive session of 1 hour and 20 minutes. That made total sense to me for courses like design/technology, where you'd be in a workshop, since 40 minutes for a session of carpentry after regsitering for that class and getting everyone settled really wouldn't have been enough time.

We'd have a break at around 10:35am for 15 minutes, then lunch at around 1:05pm for 50 minutes. A couple more classes, then a break for 15 minutes at 2:35pm, and then one more class before going home at 3:30pm.

School ran from the beginning of September (around the 7th or so), to half term (a week break around halloween), then up to Christmas (2 week break there), then from January to February (another half term), up to Easter, where we'd get another two week break, through to Whitsun - another week's break. Then we'd go to the end of July, before a 6 and a half week break or so.

Anyway, the changes that were made to the school I went to since my Mum retired included a change of lesson times - where they'd been extended to 1 hour classes, every other week, or something like that. I said to her that that was a bad idea, but she seemed keen on the change, despite her being out of teaching. She said that with the 40 minute schedule, it'd take 10 minutes to get everyone settled, take the register for that particular class, so only 25-30 minutes' worth of teaching time, because everyone got antsy 5 minutes before the bell rang for the next class. I suppose she had a point.

I know most of that is off topic, I'm just genuinely curious as to the differences between the US school times and UK school times (or other countries, for that matter.)

Getting back on topic:- I don't really know how to comment on whether or not adding more time in school is going to do students in the US any amount of good, given that young people tend to have relatively short attention spans (I did.) They probably gain a lot of skills during social events, which they'd be deprived of attending if they're in school for longer periods of time.

To anyone else posting - please do not derail this thread by getting into "my country's education system is better than your country's education system" remarks. That crap got old years ago.

At 9/27/09 07:42 PM, AlphaCentauri wrote: What if McDonald's bought NG?

What if.

Please read my comments here:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1108 330/2

At 9/28/09 07:53 AM, grinAndBearIt wrote: I have a game that requires a user to login to get access to elements that can be saved and the high score etc. The login is currently in HTML. I want to know if I upload my swf of the game will there be any problem if the user clicks LOGIN to open a HTML page with ther login pages?

Other games do it, though I don't know how. This is probably a question better asked in the flash forum.

Also, is there an problem with loading external .swf files into the game?

Regardless of whether or not there's any problem, I would avoid using external resources in the submission. The reason for this is that Newgrounds can quite often send more traffic to the external sources than they can handle - bandwidth exhaustion, server overload, etc. If the site you're hosting them on goes down for any reason, then your submission will get lots of negative feedback, which isn't something that you'd want.

At 9/27/09 01:12 AM, rifledark1 wrote: Upside is that you can mute them, but seriously tom? You know how annoying these are going to be? >:O

This has been explained many times in the past, but I'll do so again for clarity. The ads come from outside parties - the campaigns aren't very often chosen by NG at all. We do ask that they refrain from running campaigns with auto-playing music or sound, but some creep in now and then.

In case you missed his news post, Tom's been away in Denver since Thursday, so it's likely that he doesn't even know about these ads.

As is often the problem with this sort of thing, no specifics have been provided as to where this ad has been turning up - "a game in the portal" really doesn't help, since the ad campaigns sometimes differ according to the content rating of the page (adult/teen/mature/everyone), so without further detail, it's difficult to know which company to approach to ask them to remove that content.

If you're using firefox, you can right click on the page, go to view->page info, click the media tab, and see all the media files that are being served. You can then right click and select all, then right click and copy and then paste those details into a PM, which would give the actual addresses of any ads (amongst other files) that are being served and something for us to work from.

At 9/21/09 01:08 PM, Luis wrote: This is WAY early, but i have to submit the weekend I am having London Meet 2010 in by Thursday so that it can be included in the 2010 ng calendar, I imagine the dates for reading and leeds festivals arent yet available (or maybe they are) but is there particular weekends in august i should AVOID?

You could always come over during that time and actually go to one of the festivals, as they're decent fun. You don't have to go for the full duration, either - you can get day tickets to both.

I don't understand why you'd need to avoid those dates anyway, unless you plan on being in or around the areas that they're held during the start/end of the festivals, as that's when the local transport networks tend to run at a crawl.

It wasn't actually a "portal" - webcam entries were manually added/removed and the real problem was that people weren't updating their images in real time, which was kind of the point of it being there in the first place.

There used to be an archive of old images, but we had to do some house cleaning during the redesign and that was one of the things that died with all of that.

At 9/19/09 04:42 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote: You have just been pwnd by the guy who's been there.

In South Africa, Winston the Pigeon is faster than the Internet.

http://picon.ngfiles.com/511000/portal_5 11976.gif

Click the link ^^^^

Refresh the page when you're there and see if that helps?

I have had the red rings with the xbox, too. They repaired it in a reasonably quick time frame. I have a PS3, too, but the ONLY time I ever use it at the moment is to watch shows I've missed on iPlayer (which is an online service in the UK that allows you to watch programmes from the BBC you might have missed.)

I'm sure that this is going to turn into a huge flame fest, but if you're able to get the xbox repaired and have lots of games etc, I'd stick with that for now. The consoles will continue to come down in price, so if you change your mind and want to give the PS3 or Elite a go later down the line, you won't have a problem there and might actually save yourself some cash by holding out a little longer.