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.

At 9/19/09 12:28 PM, Marsume wrote: I just submitted something, along with a thumbnail, but now im just getting the [?] box thingy. Why? D:

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The latest submission that's in your profile has an icon.

At 9/19/09 12:15 PM, DumbassDude wrote:

At 9/19/09 12:04 PM, chubbthehippo wrote: In Britain.

Where else can he drive? France? Ha, fuck no.

I can drive pretty much anywhere in the world if I've made the correct provisions. Theoretically, I could be driving in France tonight.

At 9/19/09 11:44 AM, brenheezy wrote:

At 9/19/09 11:42 AM, liljim wrote: It was certainly true of the place I took my test at, my sister's friends managed to get next day re-takes after failing their tests after they'd switched to the theory/practical way of examination.

that doesn't sound safe at all!

Haha, I didn't say they passed after the re-takes. ;)

At 9/19/09 11:38 AM, ArthurGhostIy wrote:

At 9/19/09 11:23 AM, liljim wrote: like a couple of months. With this newer system, you can quite often retake the test as soon as the next day.

Fucking hell ~ that's not true.

I failed my practical a couple of days ago and now the earliest I can get is November.

I suppose it depends on where your test centre is and how much demand's on it. It was certainly true of the place I took my test at, my sister's friends managed to get next day re-takes after failing their tests after they'd switched to the theory/practical way of examination.

At 9/19/09 11:25 AM, citricsquid wrote: I have some "friends" doing driving tests etc. now and they've all passed theory the first time, I think you're right about the reason for them being separated, quite a few have to repeatedly take their practical test and fail it, it'd be silly for them to do theory again.

I think the only real problem with the separation would be for those who're illiterate. I remember my driving instructor telling me that he once taught a guy who couldn't read or write and had no perception of distances, in terms of judging how many feet/metres things were away.

He passed his test, however, as when asked by the examiner how many metres it would take for the car to stop at 30 mph, he replied with something like, "I don't know - but if we were where we are now and travelling at that speed, I'd be able to stop before that tree over there."

At 9/19/09 11:03 AM, Blue-Pill wrote: driving theory.
like thinking about driving?
not the driving test for a license?

i already got my license.

In the UK, you used to have a driving test and be tested on road signs and random questions about scenarios like stopping distances in the test itself. Quite a few years ago (in fact, I don't think it was long after I passed my test), they introduced a separate theory test.

These test things similar to what you were tested on when I took it, but it's done on computer, prior to your practical road test. I think they have simulation videos and things like that and you're given a multi choice on what to do in said scenarios, like:

Someone's reversing out of their driveway (in a video). Do you:

a) accelerate
b) honk your horn
c) slow down and prepare to beep your horn
d) something else

I just looked up some online theory tests, which are all multiple choice, but I have to say, I saw a few questions on there and was scratching my head over what they have to do with driving. Have a look:

http://www.driving-test-success.com/driv ing-theory-test01/theory-test-01.htm

One of the questions I'm referring to is "What percentage of all emmissions [sic] does road transport account for?"

Quite what that has to do with you controlling your vehicle, I have no idea, other than perhaps to hint that you should regularly maintain it so as to reduce emissions.

As for the reason they separated them - the theory test is probably more rigorous and allows the practical tests to be conducted in a shorter time, allowing more people to get through the test centres in a faster turnaround. Before they were introduced, if you failed first time around, the waiting list was pretty big before you could take it again - like a couple of months. With this newer system, you can quite often retake the test as soon as the next day.

I also think that this works out cheaper for people who repeatedly fail, since the theory test is likely to be considerably lower in cost that repeatedly taking the test when it was combined.

At 9/19/09 10:16 AM, Calintz wrote: I mean, I am sick of the 13 year olds too but still.

Your profile states that you're 19, yet you signed up in 2003. Doesn't that make you somewhat of a hypocrite? Just sayin'.

Have you tried rebooting your modem/router? I'm just wondering whether or not this is a DNS routing issue with your service provider or something like that. Trying doing this:

Open a command prompt (start->run enter "cmd" (without the quotes)). If you're running Vista, you'll need to right click your desktop (or any other directory) whilst holding shift and select "open command prompt here" - or something like that.

type "tracert picon.ngfiles.com"

Copy and paste the results in a PM to me.

How long has this been happening?

It looks to me like your GROUP BY clause is too broad. For example, with your DSL Modem, the number sold and quantity before sales are different, yet you're grouping by those... obviously they're different from one another, so returning two different result sets.

Try grouping on orders.itemID alone, since it looks like the relationship between the tables is multiple orders to each item - and use a left join on the orders table.

It's been a LONG time since I used mssql, but maybe something like:

SELECT 
	item.itemID, 
	item.itemName, 
	item.itemQuantity AS Quantity_Before_Sales, 
	orders.orderQuantity AS Number_Sold, 
	SUM(item.itemQuantity - ISNULL(orders.orderQuantity, 0)) AS Quantity_After_Sales
FROM item 
	LEFT JOIN orders ON orders.itemID = item.itemID
GROUP BY 
	orders.itemID
ORDER BY
	item.itemName;

I have to stop posting this late... if the screen is blank after that, set error reporting to E_ALL and do an ini_set and make sure that display_errors is on (all whilst testing - once you're up and running, switch things back.)

My fault, try this instead:

$db = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass) or die(mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($dbname, $db) or die(mysql_error());

Throw a call to mysql_error() and mysql_errno() to give you an idea of what's going on exactly. Not going to mess around with the code, you can investigate this for yourself, there's plenty of documentation. But basically something like:

mysql_select_db($dbname, $db) or die mysql_error();

If you're logged in and have previously reviewed, or posted on the bbs etc, then you will not need to check the box and indeed will not even see the box. If you log out, you will see it there again. It has always been this way and is nothing recent.

You did restart apache after making these changes, right?

Also, in the results of what you get from phpinfo(), you're sure that the file listed there as your php.ini is the same one you're editing?

Finally, when you write code like this:

<? echo 'hi' ?>

You don't need the semi colon. Multi-line blocks of code require the semi-colon. For example:

<?
echo 'hi'
echo 'hi'
?>

Will cause you problems, whereas:

<?
echo 'hi';
echo 'hi';
?>

Will not.

You're either gay/bisexual or you aren't. What you listen to, music wise, isn't going to change that. I listened to a lot of Placebo at University, still appreciate Queen etc etc.

Despite that, I still hanker for the ladies!

If you start using a framework like scriptaculous, you should check this out:

http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptac ulous/ajax-autocompleter

At 9/3/09 07:11 PM, smulse wrote: It's my birthday, yay!

Happy Birthday, Sam.

In other matters, can I ask you all to reply sensibly to threads you're posting in in this forum? I'm talking specifically about this thread:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1100 651

Whilst it's tempting to post "RTFM" in many threads that are posted here, remember that the rules of all of the forums essentially prohibit you from doing that, since it's leading the OP to another potential dead end.

If you want to say "google it", or something like it, then at least provide a link to the google search you did that you think might have answered the question in hand. I mean how hard can that be, if you're already putting in the effort to post?

I won't ever come down on you guys like a ton of bricks, I'm just asking you all to think before posting. If it's a question that's not worth answering, don't answer it, or post a relevant link to a google search or whatever.

In most cases, I'm already preaching to the converted, just wanted to try and get everyone else's attention over this kind of thing.

At 9/3/09 01:18 PM, WritersBlock wrote:

At 9/3/09 12:56 PM, liljim wrote:

Well, yeah, of course I know the word "movie" is spelled right, but I often find myself obsessing over little spelling issues even though I know it's better to just ignore it and move on. But it is only a spell checker, and if a word is spelled correctly, but doesn't fit the context of the sentence, or is grammatically inapropriate, there's nothing you can do but manually edit your writing. But then if you're doing that, why not spelling too?

As far as I'm concerned, the purpose of a spell checker (particularly with how they work these days, as opposed to how they used to work (where you typed everything up and THEN hit "spell check")), is to check your spelling on-the-fly (i.e. as you're typing.)

If you touch-type (which you should), then you're looking at the screen as you're typing, so as soon as you come across a word that's spelled incorrectly according to the spell-check software you're using, you're stopped in your tracks.

When it comes to grammatical errors, you have no other real option than proof reading and it's unlikely that you'll see any program that's going to reliably point out grammatical errors any time soon, because it's such a complex subject.

http://username.newgrounds.com/

?

Hi.

Well, it's important to remember that these tools are just guides as to whether or not you may or may not be typing something incorrectly. Obviously, there are words like "movie" that you know to be correct and can just move on.

It's also worth noting that these tools won't point out when you've chosen a word that's phonetically the same as what you're after, but is wrong in context, like this guy:

At 9/3/09 12:46 PM, fuzzum111 wrote: people make up words as they go, so weather it's complete or not is a matter of view. I use weird words often so I just add them instead of seeing that red line all the time. like Hir, shi, and other assorted names for roleplaying.

He meant "whether", but wrote "weather". I'm not picking on you, either, fuzzy person, I do the same thing quite regularly with "one" and "won" (I get them mixed up as I'm typing.)

I'm sure I'll probably come in for some stick for this, but back ticks in queries are generally a workaround for a problem you've created for yourself and should never be necessary.

In this case, "LEFT" is a reserved word in mysql, and I wouldn't be surprised if "ROUND" ended up on that list at some point. Avoid using these words for tables and in columns in your tables.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/r eserved-words.html

Also, check out the date/time functions mysql provides you with.

There's only one Fulp there and that's Tom.

Left-to-right from the top - Afro-Ninja with the Afro and green shirt. 36Holla to the right of him, with the black tank shirt. Egoraptor is pulling the o-face behind 36Holla, and behind Ego, The-Swain.

To the right of Ego, mostly hidden, SardonicSamurai. Luis (blue shirt) is standing in front of Sardonic. To the right of them is Kurt (cptyossarian). He's wearing the brown tank explosion shirt.

Tom's at the bottom left, Jonas is to the right of him with the Angry Faic shirt. Even though I met the guy on the right with the white cap, I can't remember his name... Sorry whoever you are!

There are only two staff in that picture - Tom and Kurt.

At 8/28/09 07:38 PM, ForNoReason wrote:

At 8/28/09 06:42 PM, jakenator85 wrote: How come, on Wade's myspace, there's a few pictures of him wearing a Newgrounds tank hat, but there's no hats in the store? A reccomendation possibly?

Isn't that back in the day when the Newgrounds "Store" was a cafepress.com store?

It's nothing to do with that. One of the former mods worked for a company that did custom sewed logos on t-shirts, caps etc. He made a bunch of caps for us guys. That's what Wade's wearing in his picture there. I have two - one's got the NG logo on it, the other's got an angry faic on it.

At 8/28/09 06:40 PM, EJR wrote: Isn't it past your bedtime, laddy?

Adults set their own bed time. Give it a few years, you'll get the hang of it.

At 8/28/09 06:23 PM, evan210 wrote:

At 8/28/09 06:22 PM, Volt wrote: Where's Sherbert?

I stol'd him

No you didn't. He's still inspecting the old webservers.

I generally don't get involved with conversations like this, but I think it's appropriate to do so in this instance.

There's a staff link at the bottom of every page of the site. On there, you'll find a list of people to contact for each and every problem with the site. Use that link and contact the right people for whatever the problem is.

We are a small site in terms of staff. However, we often have faster response times than other sites, even those that have corporate funding that runs into millions, if not billions of dollars, IF we're notified of inappropriate content.

It is naive to think that we're going to be able to look through every submission and then look through the submissions again if and when they're changed. Furthermore, posting in the forums is like a lottery when it comes to staff response - we can't be expected to read every forum post and then act upon those posts AND get any work done to move the site forward.

The key word in all of this is CONTACT. Don't rant about it in forum posts or in your blog, get in touch with someone and the matter will be dealt with more swiftly. The link, in case you can't find it at the bottom of the pages on the site is www.newgrounds.com/staff.

It seems outrageous to think that software that was created nearly 40 years ago could still be in use in some form or other right now, but there you have it. It's a testament to the forethought and whatnot of the guys who developed that software.

For those of you who're interested, Newgrounds runs on Debian.

No real point to any of this, just thought it'd be of interest and mark a milestone in the computing calendar.

At 8/17/09 12:22 PM, Minty-Hippo wrote: Of course if I remember correctly, tom had made a few other animations before this one was submitted, and had put them on his old Neo Geo site, before moving to newgrounds, Then I think he posted that one.

The animation you posted was the first one to be submitted to the portal as it is now, in its automated state. Prior to that, Tom had a bunch of animations and games (including pico, which is now in the automated portal, as he submitted it there years after), club a seal etc.

Along with that, prior to its automated state, the portal used to host a variety of different toons that people had e-mailed Tom. The portal frontpage used to look like a big swirling vortex (dunno if that's the right word for it). Clicking that would take you through to one of the random entries there at the time.

Some of these very old animations and games still exist on the site. For example:

http://www.newgrounds.com/seals/

The bop a seal game in that section pre-dates Pico.

As for the first topic on the bbs - in THIS incarnation, the link that was posted is corrected. But before this there was www.newgrounds.com/oldbbs/ and before that, another system, which didn't tie into user accounts, because they didn't exist back then.