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Yeah, I'm kind of worried about the whole Sony situation too, although for different reasons. I've been waiting forever to get my hands on a Cell processor and I really hope they continue working on the model. Plus, it's really banking on a wave of new technologies. The rise and fall of the PS3's practically connected to that of the Blu-Ray. But I think it'll pull through because...Final Fantasy p3wns all. At least sales-wise.That and the price of the Blu-Ray component's coming down thanks to mass production improvements. It's been predicted at a 100 USD fall methinks. So we could see a $500 PS3 sometime soon.

Hey... I use that for half of the stuff I have. Time for the great migration...Well, you never know. They might keep it separate (e.g. NOT mess with it) in order to prevent people like you and me from going.But still... why? Do that many people go to photobucket or does MySpace just need another set of image servers?These crazy recent business mergers...

For those of you (er, any -if that's the case) who've heard about the Synthesis Kernel in Massalin's PhD thesis, has anyone tried to make an x86 version?And to everyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about:The Synthesis Kernel was a self-modifying os kernel written in 68k assembly that emulated unix. (a Sun's version I think, I can't remember)Seems that the emulation went faster than the real thing, maybe the only time that ever happened. Anyway, I'm thinking about making a remake of it for the x86 and merging it into my own kernel as a module,just wondering if the attempt's already been made because I can't seem to find anything about it.

@CrazyRob: I mean the Apache:ASP package. You can find it by a simple "apache"+"asp" search on google. :unsure:I know mono's geared for .NET stuff, but I never knew that it handled ASP too. Seems strange that two apache projects are working on a bit of the same thing. @Saint_Michael: Yeah, 'tis true. It does take a little time to get it all done properly from what I've heard.(I have no need for ASP, but according to certain developers...) -At least that's the case on Linux. There's binaries for Windows if I'm right, but I haven't played around with Apache on that thing. Addition to the suggestions: Instead of taking the time or resources to make a windows server, one could emulate its services. I think mod_mono and Apache:ASP would be perfect for it. Mod_mono's being updated all the time - they're working on a Silverlight implementation right now, so there's no worry about new services being emulated. Besides, with everything else one could use wine. And after all, we could brag about offering windows server features without buying Microsoft's products. It wouldn't cost any money and (hopefully) wouldn't take too much time to get working properly.

@Carson: Actually, that's the reason I switched over to linux back in the day. Too many viruses indeed.If you're still trying to play around with firewalls or anitvirus systems, don't forget the free ones, some of them are actually good, such as Avast antivirus and SensiveGuard.The former updates nearly daily. Check it out sometime.

ASP? Hey, what's with the windows heresy? Actually, I second that idea. - even if it's not exactly feasible because a bunch of us could use some practice with the giant's many, many specific technologies besides ASP. - Btw there St. Michael, there is an Apache package for ASP features if you're willing to play around with perl a little.

Nice site. Although I am a bit curious about where you got that "espanish"-sounding name from. I think some more content on the sides could be useful, but I suppose you're getting banners to do that already.But - haha, more Joomla. And here I was thinking maybe hand-typed HTML. - besides that, it seems fine.If you're going to expand your content beyond artwork, I'd suggest you make more use of the outer rim of your site.- preferably with multiple frames or something, just anything outside a single PHP handler.

You might also want to explain how that's simple. There's no way a newbie to C/C++ could get through that as it is. I myself learned the conditional operator after operator overloading.Oh yeah, and you're missing a label for everything as "C++" and the use std commands.Gets errors on ANSI-strict compilers such as Dev-C++

You'll always hear one that's "better". Admit it, people have different preferences. I myself like Gentoo first and MEPIS (Ubuntu derivative) next. I prefer speed to reliability. Now others may feel differently. I hear that it takes forever to boot, but I look forward to trying it out this weekend.

I quite strongly disagree with that. Look up a guy named Stanislav Petrov and you'll see that he basically prevented nuclear war between the US and the USSR.And when was it first proven? It was never proven. History doesn't prove anything, but it does give good theorems. And "one man can't change the world" isn't one of them. Now,for everyone who considers World War III NOT to be a little thing in this world: this article's at least stimulating and probably one of the better ones that are made here. True, it is all folly. But didn't we acknowledge that once we started? Umm... read the past posts.

Eh, at least give us the title of your book when you've published it.Hey glenstein, what happened to the update?

Lame sites on geocities? Last time I checked, those "lame" sites taught me my basic graphics maneuvers .The PC Game Programmers Encylocpaedia 1.0 hasn't been worked on for a long time if I'm right,but it's still very useful for a bunch of three-dimensional techniques.Question though - why's this posted in the C/C++ forums? I thought half of the stuff therewas either language-independent or based on x86 assembly.Edit: Oh yeah. This thing hasn't been worked on in forever. Last update was back in 1997 and that was for thesecond version of the encyclopaedia.

Hmm... I tend to agree with the last few posts. Problem with the whole system is that there may be a better way to govern, but a democratic republic is possibly the most stable system we have, so any change would take a while to get through anyway. Agreed, true democracy died a long, long time ago. But it doesn't mean that a variation of it couldn't work in the modern world.The problem is that in a democratic-republic, it takes too long for the system to realign to a change of power. E.g.:We know that in the US we have federal and state governments and they both have different arrays of powers, even though they're supposed to balance each other out. Well, that balance went away in the Civil War with the federal government out on top. But the system of government was kept the same except for blocking the confederates from coming back. - The government shifted in power, but no laws were made to account for them. - And still, we have no greater power in the federal government than in the past.- And again, there's the case of the imperial presidency. Presidents are free to wage their own private war for 60 days without Congressional approval. Sad to say, this came out of a compromise. As the military power of the nation grows, the greater the power of the executive branch becomes. So we have a president that has the power to plunge the earth into nuclear war on his fingertips. Scary thought.What I'm trying to say is that even though the system's built to adjust, it just can't because people have too much faith in the system to change it. Some madman can be elected president out of popularity and start WWIII as of right now. - And no one can stop him because we traditionally trust the president. And in the modern era, people do not have the power to stop the government from doing something destructive in the long term during a crisis - they've got machine guns, we don't.For a better mechanism, I think you need to have a people that are willing to constantly change their government system and their constitution. The best thing I can think of right now is a greater-scaled republic, where people vote for mayors, mayors for district leaders, district for state, state for region, etc. and run a triumvirate if need be.

@ghostrider: Haha, reading QTPartED code is something I wouldn't be doing either. It'd have to be good to be used in MEPIS anyway, which is actually a reputable distribution.@Johnny: I did try it and I didn't see anything new. Thanks for the idea though.So, right - I'll be reformatting away in some time.Thanks for the input everyone.

Tell you what. Go ahead and try one of the given examples or methods posted below.We won't sue you. Promise.Not to mention that if you *did* actually take over the world,what's the point of suing you in court then?

Woah. I couldn't even compile that one. (Probably because I don't have the identical headers to yours, I'm sure I even have a copy of dos.h) Mind commenting through the file? I mean, I'm probably one of the last people who should say this, but it's really necessary sometimes. Especially when you're talking to a public who has no clue what useX is used for or why it equals 41 instead of 42 So yeah, please comment through it. Otherwise it'd take us a lot longer than it should to find a problem and you'd get less people to help you.

Yup, already backed up my data a while ago. As far as Windows is concerned, it doesn't exist. I mean, I don't have any windows partitioning program, I'm just going by the lowered disk space count in the control panel... which is really trivial now that I think about it. I used QTPartEd, which came as part as the MEPIS live cd. Of course, the CD might be corrupted, but I've checked the MBR table and the 6 GB is part of the NTFS partition. I haven't looked at the source code of QTPartEd yet, but I doubt that a program would reformat partitions without explicitly being told to do so in a Unix development system. Oh, haha. Funny thing about that. I get the same error message when I log into Safe Mode also. Just that it occurs a lot less often. Plus I have one of those new Dell BIOSes and mine's been shutting the OS down whenever the system's about to get into a lock. (I believe when thread switches are mishandled and the cpu gets stuck in a one-thread loop from some asm experiments gone horribly wrong - think LOADALL with a Pentium 4) But, it was just a venture. At this point I have no clue where the error could be coming from. I think I'll just wind up reformatting the whole thing because windows doesn't accept partition transplants.

Oh. Heh. I remember those times. It'd have been better if you posted this in the games forum though.Well, you'd first need to know what your language your game was made inin order to do it the easy way. The hard way is to get a disassembler andpatch your games after you learn assembly language.Yeah, it's not that easy unless you know what you're doing.Care to specify?

@ghostrider: Linux says that the space is actually part of my NTFS partition.What I don't get is that the partition wasn't formatted, so I thought that you could just reattach it.And the error message is just a variable display in hexadecimal, I'm guessin' a display of stackor registers right now. No english whatsoever. - I think it's a BIOS display actually.@Johnny: Lol. I don't have the windows cd right now. And I did try the Last Known Configuration thingy.Well, if there's any hope, I've noted that after about 30 boots, I've logged into my normal configuration.Which means I'm leaving the computer on all day.Thanks for taking your time guys, and I'd appreciate any more help.

Ok. I've recently tried to install MEPIS Linux. Or, well, attempted to.I first defragmented my NTFS partition and then made a 6 GB partitionof it into free space. So I tried to go back into Windows XP to see ifanything went wrong and it went something like this:load...load...load... stop. Error message with some random numbers.I'm guessing that the partitioning directly led to the problem, so I went backand enlarged the NTFS partition to reinclude that 6 GB portion.Still Windows doesn't work normally. I logged in by safe mode and looked atthe C drive stats and it says that the 6 GB portion isn't part of C-though my Linux partition tool says otherwise.Anyway, I'm stuck using safe mode - I'm actually writing this from safe modewith networking, and I'd like to know how to fix this thing.Does anyone know how to get windows to recognize that the partition has beenincreased - or if I have yet another problem? I'd like to see my graphics again.

Heh. Well it's definitely not too boring, but it is a good question. I've kind of been wondering the same thing as you with the cricket matches -except I was watching the Brazilian national team play in the World Cup last year. Seemed like everyone there was great, but not really playing as a coordinated team. - Don't get me wrong, it's my favorite team, but it seemed like the team couldn't coordinate itself too well. I've also been wondering about it in the case of some national politicians, but I don't feel like starting a flame war on something so trivial.I guess I'd say they're half and half. Because some people really are so great because they're good manipulators. That's what makes great politicians.And you'd need a stronger bound for the word 'manipulate' in order to discuss this I'd think. I could say that a scientist is really a great 'manipulator' of data and theorems in an empirical way. Or I could further say that all people manipulate, therefore great people would also be great manipulators. It'd depend on your specific definition here.

Yeah, he's right. Take a look at the stats. They lose like $240 US dollars on every 20 GB system they sell. Not to mention that they're practically selling a miniature floating-point supercomputer in each release too. I mean, just take a look at some of the screenshots to see what I'm talking about. I think a universal system is possible. After all, if we can make software emulators on the PC, we can make hardware ones too. But there's not too much of a need for one either, since major game companies like to sell their product on the different video game consoles.

Heh, sounds like hmwk to me.You'd probably want to do two while loops - one nested in the other - one for determining how many numbers to display, and the second displaying the numbers. Both of your outputs display numbers in increasing order, so you'd probably just reverse the increment/decrement in the outer loop and change the index variable to get the other.-Just an idea, you probably should look through tutorials and such. They normally cover this stuff in the example section. It isn't that hard to transcribe it for your case.

Hmm... probably the greatest stumbling block for this type of thing is that you have more than one group of people trying to take over the world at the same time. Granted only one can even possibly accomplish the feat, but the groups will try to eliminate each other either by alliance systems or something resembling wars of attrition. So not only do you have actual countries combating the world-dominator-to-be, but you also have other potential candidates trying to level each other off as well.Also, when you DO finally take over a country, it becomes harder to take over another. I can't think of a better example than the Bolsheviks in the 1917 revolution. By taking over Russia, they made nearly every Western nation concerned about possible communist uprisings in their nation. The key case in this is Post-WWI Germany, which almost fell to the Sparticist uprising but didn't because a majority of the populace saw a similar case as in Russia. In other words, since a group did get the job accomplished, people start fearing and working against that group in order to safeguard their own rights. It's basic human nature.So it's an uphill battle all the way. You take over one country and the world gets suspicious. You take over another, and the whole world's against you. But this is assuming we're using force to take over countries. Perhaps there'll be a different case for other methods, but I'd like to see a counterexample nonetheless.

Alternatively (or in combination I presume) , matak, you can use the mingw system for Windows. It's meant to emulate a unix development system in minimalist mode. I wouldn't suggest going for this straightaway, but if you feel you can handle trying a set which allows for cross-platform code development while handling its respective issues, go for it.