At 3/1/09 03:54 AM, mike wrote: Alien Hominid & CC are done with a combination of Flash and C++. All of the game logic is ActionScript, which is run with a home-grown Flash parser written in C++. The parser has special optimizations to let us run Flash quickly (and even still we rewrote certain AS parts into C++)

That's incredibly bad-ass! Who codes the C++ part? How about the AS part? I'm really curious to know

On Xbox360, all of the art and animation is stored as an SWF file, which gets rasterized when the game loads. This is how we pack a lot of animation into a small file! :)

Again, really clever. Are you using a third-party library to render and rasterize the art?

Puppy Linux Supremacy

At 2/23/09 01:43 AM, evillouis wrote: Yeah well I'm going to be learning some basic xhtml/css soon but I just need some thing right now.

It won't happen unless you're willing to pay. Even then this job really is very simple but whoever takes it will probably charge you more than it's worth.

At 2/23/09 01:43 AM, evillouis wrote: Yeah well I'm going to be learning some basic xhtml/css soon but I just need some thing right now.

It won't happen unless you're willing to pay. Even then this job really is very simple but whoever takes it will probably charge you more than it's worth.

I know it seems easier to just store a serialized array in a database, but it's a very bad idea.

Make a column for every account setting. You can always add more later on, it's not a problem. It will also help you making specific queries like fetching all users with X posts, registration date before Y, etc etc

Fucking SHIT!

I was trying out the orgasm one, and as I felt my boner rising for no reason at all, my fucking dad comes into my room saying he's hearing a weird sound.

Geeze, thanks dad, you asshole

Two tracks from my album. Will upload more if successful!

Pour Anna - November, by Sir-Davey Type: SongGenre: New Wave

Pour Anna - July, by Sir-Davey Type: SongGenre: New Wave

At 1/17/09 01:44 PM, 066pop wrote: At 1/15/09 Some random time, some peeps wrote:

At 1/15/09 07:37 PM, Sir-Davey wrote:

At 1/15/09 07:17 PM, sasuke2910 wrote:

At 1/15/09 11:08 AM, henke37 wrote: Flash alone can not do this.

it can to

It's hard to tell if you're a troll or if you're actually that stupid.

If it's the first, then wow you sure put a lot of effort in looking like a douchebag

Im not going to go on about this. You appear to be a troll if you so bothered by someone you think is a troll, and reply insulting them.

End of subject.

You're a troll for calling me a troll because I called out what I think was a troll who was obviously trolling the thread.

At 1/15/09 07:17 PM, sasuke2910 wrote:

At 1/15/09 11:08 AM, henke37 wrote: Flash alone can not do this.

it can to

It's hard to tell if you're a troll or if you're actually that stupid.

If it's the first, then wow you sure put a lot of effort in looking like a douchebag

Not directly, no.

Though what you can do is make a nice little advertisement for Joy2Key so your users can use their gamepad for your game. It's plenty of fun (and it made Alien Hominid actually playable for me, LOL)

At 1/15/09 05:29 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: RewriteRule /([a-z]+/mypage.php?secondVar=([0-9]+) /mypage.php?firstVar=$1&secondVar=$2

Not tested, and I'm a bit rusty, but that should work at first glance.

That would be

RewriteRule /([a-z]+)/mypage.php?(.+) /mypage.php?firstvar=$1&$2

which would allow more flexibility in what variables are accepted. Firstvar being hard-coded, the rest will allow anything

About two months ago, I decided to offer my (now ex) girlfriend something different for christmas. I recently started learning how to use Cubase SX3 and thought it would be a good idea to offer, as a side-gift, a self-made album of electronic music.

I took piano lessons for about 2 years some time ago, and that's pretty much all I know about music. I know about major and minor chords and not much else. However, I do love making music as a hobby and that was the perfect opportunity for me to try out a serious project.

The plan was to initially record vocals over these songs, however due to lack of time/microphone I couldn't make anything worthwhile so I just decided to make it a musical CD. The final result is not as polished as I wished it was, but making 6 songs in 1 1/2 months was a crazy bet and I had to overlook some details to make it happen (some of these songs are really short). And if you're wondering, my name is Florian and her name is Anna. The title of the album literally translates to "For Anna".

Please overlook the cheezy side of the gift (one song for every month of our relationship, album art, etc) and try to rate the music itself. If you think some of the songs are repetitive, it's because as I said above, the tracks were made with lyrics in mind. I spent most of the time working on the sounds themselves, as I'm more of a technical guy and I love trying to come up with original sounds.
So, without further ado, here it is:

July (instrumental):
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/jipn/Flo rian---Pour-Anna---July--instrumental-

August:
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/eipz/Flo rian---Pour-Anna---August

September
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/miwf/Flo rian---Pour-Anna---September

October:
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/wkuo/Flo rian---Pour-Anna---October

November:
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/pwvy/Flo rian---Pour-Anna---November

December:
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/zuco/Flo rian---Pour-Anna---December

And if you can, please tell me which one you prefer!

Bump because I am desperate

I need someone who can speak (and type) russian. I need a couple of words (mainly names) translated into Cyrillic alphabet so I can find an old friend on vkontakte (russian, most likely government-run, facebook clone).

8 Swiss Francs through PayPal if you help me. That's a little less than 7 dollars. For 10 words MAX.

At 11/9/08 08:34 PM, sasuke2910 wrote: no remote desktop
and i have no internet so that's not the problem

Did you read my post? Read it again, especially near the end. You need to download ShellExView and try disabling some context menu handlers

Did you recently add a network drive and disconnect it? I had this problem because I mounted one on a local IP adress on my network. Every time I right-clicked any file, windows would lock up for at least 20 seconds looking for that unexisting network share. If that is indeed the problem, here's how I tracked down the problem:
- Stop all applications using the internet (torrents, aim/msn,etc)
- Start > Run > cmd
- type in

nstat -a 1

- do a right click somewhere, see if a new local ip adress shows up in the list (displayed and updated in cmd). If that happens, then your problem is indeed a bad network share
- memorize the IP adress
- Start > Run > regedit
- Edit > Find...
Now type in the IP adress, and delete every registry key with a reference to it. Now restart your computer and everything should by fine!

If that's not the problem, it's most likely a bad Context Menu Handler. To fix that, download ShellExView and disable Context Menus one by one until the problem is fixed.

If that doesn't work, you might want to consider a fresh install of Windows

That sure is a lot of fancy JavaScript!

At 10/11/08 05:06 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: CodeBlocks is better

I want to bring this to your attention, OP

Dev-C++ is old, not maintained anymore and full of bugs. Code::Blocks is actively developed and more "down-to-earth". Also, it's not coded in Delphi lol

???

what's the point of this topic?

At 9/26/08 04:27 PM, Dillxn wrote: If I release it and everyone knows the algorithm, then nothing encrypted in it is secure anymore.

my point exactly. Leave the cryptography to the cryptographers. If you want something encrypted and secure just use one of the many open, public domain algorithms out there. I don't think you "get" cryptography.

Now post the fucking source already

At 9/25/08 04:58 PM, Dillxn wrote: I appreciate the advice, but patents are for manufacturing. :)

Does it really matter? That's totally not the point I was trying to make. do whatever you want, but I don't think anyone's going to want to spend hours trying to figure out the algorithm just so you can post it later on. Just post it or don't.

Just know that any actual encryption algorithm should still be secure once the source is published...that's the idea behind cryptography. Security through obscurity, ever heard these terms? That's exactly what you're doing. So I hope your algo uses encryption keys as well because otherwise your it is pretty worthless.

At 9/24/08 06:45 PM, Dillxn wrote: What's weird is that I've actually considered those things... ... ...Anyways, I don't want to release the algorihm because I haven't protected it at all yet. I don't just some random yahoo come onto this site and take it and claim it for his own.

Auch (also), good to see the excitement here over it!

I'm sorry but even though your algorithm may be cool and seem quite powerful, I doubt anyone is going to steal it. There are many alternatives invented by cryptographic engineers which have been proved excellent by the test of time. Take Blowfish or AES for example.

You're better off releasing the algorithm to the public domain, that way people can improve on it. Don't take offense but some algorithm designed by a kid (alright, teenager) doesn't stand a chance against AES. Besides, if you want to wait until it's protected, good luck getting a lawyer, thousands of dollars and several years to file the patent.

This algorithm looks pretty cool, but encryption is generally best left to cryptographic engineers. There are so many aspects of encryption that you/I don't know about. For example, how do you know two encrypted strings won't collide? How do you know the key is secure? Are you sure the results are predictable? (ie: not out of the 32-bit range)

I would really like you to post the algo, instead of letting us "guess" how it's done. All I can figure out is that the first character seems to be the length of the original string. I haven't otherwise looked into it.

Thank you for this insightful post!

If those files arrived on your server without you being aware of it, it means they probably had access to much more. I would just flat out reformat the server because you never know how much spam your server could be sending out every second.

If the shape you are trying to escape is stored as a vector shape (which I hope it is) you can just use some basic hittesting on close shapes to find out which one your object is. Then traverse every point of the shape, calculating the distance separating your object and the line formed by the curr. point and the next one. Then just take the shortest one and calculate the motion vector required to exit. It's not that hard and as was said above, you can't make this any lower than a O(n) problem.

(in english in case someone else has the same question)

Try using AutoHotKey. I've never used it personally, but I think it has the ability to remap keys entirely. You could remap these special characters to numbers, and the numbers to these characters. If you have a DELL laptop you can probably call them up and order a different keyboard: it's cheap and extremely simple to change.

Achète-toi un clavier suisse (QWERTZ) parce que les claviers francais sont vraiment les pires qu'il y aie. Autrement il te suffit d'aller sous
Panneau de Configuration > Option Régionales et Linguistiques > Onglet "Langues" > Détails
et ensuite de tester les différents claviers francais/suisses.

I believe the XBox uses the .NET framework, meaning games could be programmed in C# which is a whole lot easier than C++. I'm talking out of my ass here so do correct me if I'm wrong.

	//fix the effect of magic quotes
	if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
		function stripslashes_array($array) {
			return is_array($array) ? array_map('stripslashes_array', $array) : stripslashes($array);
		}

		$_COOKIE = stripslashes_array($_COOKIE);
		$_FILES = stripslashes_array($_FILES);
		$_GET = stripslashes_array($_GET);
		$_POST = stripslashes_array($_POST);
		$_REQUEST = stripslashes_array($_REQUEST);
	}

This will fix the effects of magic quotes, without requiring access to the php.ini file. Don't thank me though, thank god