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There are lots of games on the internet that sound weird, stupid, pointless, or just too simple to be any good, but turn out to be really fun and addicting. If you come across any such game post it here and we can make a big list. I'll start:

Falling Sand Game - http://forums.xisto.com/topic/40071-falling-sand-game-a-strange-sounding-but-addictive-game/ (description in link)

Mini Putt - http://www.addictinggames.com/sports-games/miniputt3.jsp (Just a game of mini-golf)

Plasma Pong - http://www.plasmapong.com/ (pong with fluid dynamics and whatnot - the fluid dynamics test mode is really fun)

There's another I played once where you were a small vehicle with two grappling hooks which was really cool. Unfortunately I can't remember where it was or what it was called, but I'm looking for it.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limewire, it is written in Java. The article also says that there are installation packages, which are usually exes. You could try searching your Limewire directory for any jar files, which are basically executables.

I'm currently making a game in Pygame (http://forums.xisto.com/topic/38927-pygame/), which doesn't allow animated gifs, so I need ways to store sprites and animate them. Right now I just have a bunch of nested associative arrays that are like this:

type of attack (stab, swing, not attacking) -> walking, jumping, or standing -> facing left or right -> list of images

This is all I can come up with, has anybody had success with anything different?

At one point I was looking up things you can do with them and different commands you could use, and I found this: http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm. It's a big list of all the DOS/command prompt commands, what they do, and how to use them.

Wow. People never actually realized that, like all OS features that are non-Mac,

You see this? This is when people stop caring what you think.

Just ring up your government and ask them.. surprise them, heck, record the phone call, if you get a stupid person..

Just pointing out that in some states consent from both parties is required to record a phonecall >_>
The laws on the internet are generally the same as the laws in the area where the server is located. For example, any servers in California would be subject to U.S. federal laws and California state laws. Also when you sign up for internet service you sign a contract with your ISP and they put on other restrictions (bandwidth, things you cannot do [like hack], things you cannot host if you set up a server, etc.).

But in reality, a lot of these laws are ignored either because it's hard to find out/prove that you've done it (like downloading music) or because most people really don't care (looking at porn if you're too young, also goes under the first reason).

This is one of those games whose concept is really weird in theory, but is actually quite addicting in practice.

 

Basically, sand, water, salt, and oil fall down and you can mess with them with things like walls, fire, wax, and plants. There are also other versions, like "Hell of Sand," which has zombies, and "Pyro Sand," which has more explosive items.

 

There are also mods, like "Burning Sand," which has many more elements, and (in my opinion) the best interface. Another, wxSand, has a good interface too, but not as many elements as some of the others. My favorite is EnigmaSand because you can use XML to make new elements and change how they interact.

 

Links:

FSG Wiki: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Official site/forums: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Burning Sand official site: http://www.naglmax.de/

EnigmaSand download (I like 3-Alpha): http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/viewtopic.php?t=696

wxSand site: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Edit: Topic description, missing space

From that conversation he sounds a bit like SmarterChild. Also if he's always on the same computer you could infer that he never leaves, and maybe bring that up.

I started reading one of the books and it's really dry... and slow and boring. Luckily my school doesn't start until after Labor Day.

There are required subjects because not everyone knows what they want to do for a living, especially by the time they start high school. Some people go through college and post-college life not knowing. Making everyone take a variety of classes helps people get exposed to different areas and decide on a future career.

I haven't looked but there's probably important stuff in there and/or they're there for a reason. Just have it disregard stuff that starts with an underscore or is named cgi-bin.

When I first read the title I thought you meant the books.But skin goose bumps are cause by coldness or strong emotions. Decide which.

One, you're promoting bad HTML. You should never use the font tag, and some things (like bgcolor and align="left") are better left to CSS. Two,

Wow, that's good, your right, HTML is the base for many web-langauges.

 

No it's not. HTML is a markup language, real web languages like PHP and ASP are nothing like HTML. XML is similar to HTML, but not based on. XHTML is just HTML but more strict.

I've heard of Autoit before and wondered what it was. This tutorial doesn't really seem to have a lot of 'meat,' though. A good tutorial should give you enough information to do something.

It's stupid to think that any corporation's purpose isn't to get money. Google is no exception. What are you going to do about it? Tell the press? OH WAIT THEN THE PRESS GETS MORE MONEY FROM SELLING THE STORY! This is the whole point of capitalism. Provide a service, make money off it.All that being said, Google is much less evil than many companies.

Fun fact: Blu-ray will fail like so many other Sony proprietary formats: Betamax, MiniDisc, SDDS, UMD, etc.

everyone loves mario! but the so-so graphics, and the lame games of the game-cube may be the fatal flaw of the Revolution. (But the controller looks cool!)

You seem to be forgetting how little Nintendo has revealed. Even though it seems not to be very good right now, there is a very good chance that Nintendo is putting other technology in the Wii or using special techniques to get the most out of the processor. And the games shouldn't be a problem- Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Red Steel, Sonic Wild Fire, etc.

It sounds kind of like Pandora (/), is it? I never thought of applying that kind of system to websites. Maybe someone could do it with video games or even books.

Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 21,250,000,000 for a. (0.11 seconds)Yahoo: 1 - 10 of about 10,900,000,000 for a - 0.02 sec.Sure Yahoo is .09 seconds faster, but Google has almost twice as many results.

I have to read these three huge books (one's actually a trilogy) and write a four-page essay on one. Add that to the fact that I'm trying to test out of precalculus.... Summer work sucks.

Here are a couple more languages:

Python

def factorial(n):	 if n is 0 or n is 1:		  return 1	 else:		  return n * factorial(n-1)

Java

public static int factorial(int n) {	 if(n == 0 || n == 1)		  return 1;	 else		  return n * factorial(n-1);}

PHP

function factorial($n) {	 if($n == 0 || $n == 1)		  return 1;	 else		  return $n * factorial($n-1);}

Edit: I'd like to add that although the PHP and the Java look very similar, they are very different languages. You'll notice the "int" in the Java example. It's there because Java likes its variables to stay one type, while PHP doesn't really care. This Java code would not work:

String s = "11";s++;//compile-time error

However, similar code in PHP would work:

$s = "11";$s++;//s is now 12 (an int, not a string)

Pretty sure AI is only for games xD

And not robots? AI has a lot more uses than just making NPCs look real.

Could you describe the projects? I've never used JSP but I think I have a book.

It would help if you posted the whole method that that's in but a "missing return statement" error generally means that you have a method with a defined return type but you never actually return anything in the method. For example:

public static int sum(int a, int b) {	 int c = a + b;}

The method has code in it but nothing is returned (in this case it should be c). The code you posted should work, but I usually put the [] on the type of object as opposed to the variable (e.g., Card[] decker), though I don't think that it matters.

If your server has a router you may need to forward port 50000.