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Also to make a note about the actual OP,
Accessibility is a HUGE issue in the computing world. In fact anywhere you go, generally with open source software, they will emphasize heavily on accessibility. So what Apple is doing is either redempting or a stupid marketting ploy.
At 11/6/10 10:05 AM, Wolfos wrote: OS-X is open source cocksucker, we can't say that about Windows, can we?
Windows is proprietary. Most Linux distros are not.
At 10/24/10 02:55 AM, Gagsy wrote: Well now, that's just rude.
Your huge tits are rude.
No mention of the Beastie Boys?
The BB were associated with 90% of the bands listed here. They were legendary, originally a hardcore punk group, and revolutionized the '80s hip hop scene by being unorthodox. Yet, apparently we're all posers here.
RIGHT?
The things about sponsors is that it's redundant..
The whole idea is to get you publicity and to give you a share of money that's earned by the sponsor. Anyway you look at it, you'd probably end up making more money yourself if you marketed the game on your own than by the sponsor. The whole concept is designed to rip you off, especially those without any credibility, such as websites that steal flash games or people who want to start their own portal websites without any integrity.
At 9/18/10 03:11 PM, gta0004 wrote: how would i add a decay factor to that so the heat meter drops while you are not shooting?
Jesus christ dude. Learn to figure out things for yourself.
When you shoot, things go up. When you don't shoot, things go down.
Logically, you would make the decay factor smaller than the heating factor.
There's a rule of thumb that if you are spending too much time fixing cross-browser issues, then something's wrong with your code. That's because people don't really understand what they're doing, so they arbritrarily write stuff until it works, and coincidentally spend a lot of time then making fixes so it works in all browsers. The easiest way is to not complicate your code or to use solutions that don't conflict with standards or how browsers work...
When you're near the exit of one level, you can simply load the next level and do an animation to center the camera on the next level's starting position, then unload the previous level.
At 8/30/10 08:07 PM, liljim wrote:
Obviously immaturity is a core concept that runs rampant among a lot of web 'designers'. My friend, who has dealt with computers all his life and is getting a job in networking (which pays a lot more than these folks will probably ever get in their lives) feels the same way about non-IE browsers. He says that he intends to block any browser besides IE because in his opinion IE is the only one that gets it right.
I'm not saying he's not biased, because he is, I'm just saying this anti-IE mindset is stupid. Especially considering none of you will get much money aside from free-lancing in the long run. And if you intend to work for a company the anti-IE mindset will definitely shut you out too.
Uh...no.
You have to use an 'enumerator'. Prototype's enumerator is 'each', I'm sure JQuery has something similra.
At 8/18/10 04:18 PM, rymonator wrote: Thanks - the server we are going to have soon is going to be a beast and there aren't going to be an extraordinary amount of users so that shouldn't be a problem.
A lot of the times you want to make sure that when you design something, you get it right the first time. Otherwise you'll probably get stuck in the trap where your project ends up expanding faster than you realized, or you run into a bunch of unforseen problems (they are a bitch.)
So even if you're not looking for optimization or large scale efficiency, do a lot of research first.
At 8/18/10 10:45 PM, Seltzer wrote:
This is a mindset taken on by a lot of rookies.
On a large scale, IDEs are definitely your best bet for productivity and efficiency. But either way, in the long run, it's better to learn how to utilize IDEs for even small projects so you can get a feel for it. There are a lot of skills involved such as project organization and top-down design.
In fact there's really no reason NOT to have code completion or the ability to quickly look up a function. Programming is about solving problems, not how much time you spend writing actual code or memorizing things. Of course, for learning purposes, you may be limited to this but eventually you'll move on to realizing that you're better off adapting. Or stay limited, whatever.
See, the issue is a lot of tutorials on the web are written by misinformed or arrogant people. It's about time you saw the big picture.
Sure, for your 'hello world' program you may not need to type in a lot of commands to compile it.
But just look at the command line output in an IDE for a library or a simple project and you'll be amazed.
At 8/17/10 09:43 PM, CaptinChu wrote: I have no idea what you're talking about, but I don't see why you can't draw 20 lines in a row.
For memory reasons it's more efficient to draw a linestrip than 20 lines in a row...
I'm sure in the documentation somewhere there should be a method or something that should allow you to adjust the line width. But then again you can just google that. :)
At 8/14/10 06:43 AM, Nano256 wrote:At 8/14/10 05:42 AM, slingshot24 wrote: I dont want to upload what I make to NG, because that would be stealingActually, no. If code is open source you're pretty much free to use it as you wish.
Open sourced code comes with a license. It doesn't automatically mean you're free to use it as you wish.
At 8/14/10 07:47 AM, oiMate wrote: onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.player.hitTest(_x, _y, true)) {
_root.gotoAndStop(3);
_root.player._x = 525;
_root.player._y = 340;
}
}
It's possible that setting the player's position AFTER changing the frame is the source of the issue. It could be anything else too because you're incredibly vague about your code.
At 8/14/10 07:08 AM, HypNosE777 wrote: how would i code that then :i ?
what codes on what sympel and frames
Here's pseudo code:
bool first, second, third;
first = second = third = false;
if (first == false && player.touches(tree))
second = true;
if (second == true && third == false && !player.touches(tree))
{
second = false;
third = true;
}
if (third == true && second = false && player.touches(tree))
{
second = true;
third = false;
}No offense but if you can't figure out things for yourself, you shouldn't be programming. Everyone starts out slow but the whole concept of programming is solving problems.
At 8/14/10 06:13 AM, AdmittingZero wrote:
This isn't hard.
Here's the idea:
FIRST PHASE -> SECOND PHASE
SECOND PHASE <-> THIRD PHASE
You need two booleans. One that checks if the player has reached the tree for the first time, and to cycle between the two frames. Or, once you move away from frame one, you might not even need a boolean at all - just make sure you never go back to frame one.
FRAME ONE
If player reaches tree, and you are NOT on frame two, move to frame two.
This starts the cycle.
If player is on frame two, and NOT on frame three or frame one, then go to frame three.
If player is on frame three, and NOT on frame two or frame one, then go to frame two.
As you can see you never go back to frame one, but you still only need one boolean.
At 8/14/10 02:06 AM, GreenAlienAnimations wrote:
Velocity is a combination of speed and acceleration. A scalar is simply a number used to create a new vector when multipled by one. So in other words, Velocity is a vector, that when multipled by scalar -> a new vector.
Your velocity would most likely be a vector (0, X, 0) where X is your character's X coordinates. So you would move your character with a scalar 1 to produce (0, X + 1, 0). Of course with acceleration, while you are moving, your acceleration increases, and so does your velocity.
If you had a speed of 1, and an acceleration rate of 1, your velocity would be (0, 1 + (accelRate), 0). When you stop running, your acceleration rate goes down and your character moves at a slower velocity until it reaches 0, aka, your character slides until he stops moving.
The asshole above was trying to sound smart because he assumed you were stupid. Considering this is advanced stuff for you, I suggest you read up on it.
At 8/12/10 02:57 AM, blah569 wrote: Sorry for the double post, but it would be really nice to get some help.
Once I tried to make a type of flashlight ordeal where it would be attached to the player, and rotate with the player as well. However, at first, the flashlight rotated independently of the player.
I realized that even though the flashlight kept up with the player's position, whenever the player is rotated, it does not apply the transformation to the flashlight. You have to apply the transformation to the flashlight as well.
In other words, you need to rotate the flashlight along with the player, instead of assigning it to the player's rotation.
Nobody seems to take into account that if you're immortal, you cannot die, but you can still suffer from wounds (see above post.) That means anybody can throw you into space, and you can do nothing about it. :D
Or infinite torture. You will be an exhibit for scientists all over!
At 8/12/10 12:59 AM, AndyPerfect wrote:
It's a hierarchy. Each space transcends onto a child element. Like html p would affect all p elements directly nested in the html tag, but not necessarily nested in child elements of html.
So .post .month .date would be represented as:
<span class='post'>
<span class='month'>
<span class='date'>
</span>
</span>
</span>
Span tags were used for the sake of brievy. If you don't include a space, then it will not be a child element.
div#id would find a div marked with the respective id. But div #id would find a child element of div with the respective id.
At 8/10/10 06:06 PM, bgraybr wrote:
In XNA, there are two important methods: Update, and Draw.
Update handles processing and Draw handles displaying. A GameTime object is passed to Update, and Update is usually called 60 times per second. When we're doing the processing, a common task is to multiply units by the game time so they are measured discretely and stay consistent regardless of framerate.
ie,
rotation += rotationSpeed * gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.MillisecondsSo you can call an event 60 times a second, but if frames are dropped, you can measure things in programmable units (rather than literal units) so things stay consistent even if the frames are dropped (ie, the method isn't called.)
At 8/4/10 08:41 AM, Argoneus wrote: http://pastebin.com/SsedRMYa
It gives the error on line 28.. any ideas why? :x
Probably because not every single line in the file has 7-8 characters?
At 8/1/10 09:14 PM, RubberTrucky wrote: Though it has a hard time beating its predecessor, 25 might prove to be the best number yet.
It's akin to a quarter, of a quarter, of a quarter of a quarter of a quarter...
At 8/1/10 01:48 PM, therealsylvos wrote:
God doesn't play favorites...
People are so fucking arrogant to believe that God will answer prayers in a personal and unambiguous manner. After all the faith builds upon being impersonal and ambiguous. 'God works in mysterious ways' is an example. Let alone, he's not entitled to anyone not of faith, nor to those not entirely faithful...or whatever list of laundry that you have to go through.
Point in case, God's not entitled to you or anybody else. If anything, we're all looking at this on the wrong scale. Most people assume that faith is as simple as 'oh there's some powerful being, he must answer my prayers simply because I believe so.' No, not really. There's a such thing as the Bible, and it pretty much details why God doesn't play favorites. Because he's an asshole, and he doesn't have to answer to you.
At 8/1/10 10:53 AM, Ericho wrote:
I'm sick of the 'reality vs fantasy' argument. It's so fucking flawed.
It's not about being able to tell the difference. It's called provocation. Video games invoke some feelings of aggression and adrenaline. It's a good way to vent it, considering most teenagers don't go to the gym or box at a club or whatever. Mentally ill people often live out their fantasies and video games happen to be one of them. Or...it could just be completely unrelated to video games at all.
I mean, somebody killed somebody at a movie theatre. Are we going to blame it on the movie?
I understand if you're doing this for a side project, but PLEASE don't use captcha for user authenication. It's really user inconvenient and a bad way to fight against spam. Use a more simplier intuitive method.
Here's the big kicker!
'cops believe'
As in that's what the cops are willing to release to the press, or as much as they felt like investigating. For all we know it was a murder and staged to blame the kid.
At 7/17/10 06:20 PM, snowclouds wrote:
You don't ever develop on the iPod itself (he already said this.)
You develop applications on the Windows using an IDE that's linked to the iPod SDK. THEN you put the application on the iPod. It's similar to XNA, which you don't develop on the XBox itself.
The 'webs' domain and the 'free website' insert at the bottom demonstrates that this site is a template. So going straight into 'css' and 'tables' is beyond the scope of what he has so far. He needs to start from scratch first.
