hippiman

A while ago, I was learning about threads, and about asynchronous and synchronous functions. The way this site explains it, synchronous code makes the current code wait for the function you called to return. Asynchronous functions are called, but the current code just continues after it starts the function. What I don't understand is why they use them the way they do. I'm pretty sure synchronous means something about more than one thing being in sync. ("occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase" from google's definition.) Asynchronous is just the opposite, then, meaning more than one thing not being in sync. ("not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase ".) So, if synchronous code has to wait for a return, that means that the current code and the called function are not executing at the same time, and therefore not synchronous, right? And if asynchronous code doesn't wait for a return, that means the current code and the called function are executing at the same time, and not asynchornous. I don't get it. If someone has some better way of explaining it that makes their definitions make sense, I'd appreciate it. It seems to me that they just used those words backwards to confuse people while they're explaining threads.

Flash is a lot more powerful than it looks at first. I don't know how you could think that all it can do is slide shows and play video.Have you ever seen a flash game? Or YouTube? Or anything animated in flash? I'm pretty sure there are some whole cartoons that are animated just with flash.The main things people love about flash are how everyone has it installed already, the IDE (like flash MX or CS3) has a really easy to use interface, and the fact that actionscript makes almost anything possible.I have an internship right now where the software we're developing uses flash as the front-end. It was a lot faster to set up and be able to add effects to the GUI with flash than it would have been if we just used C#, which is the language the back-end is in.I've never really used Flex Builder, so I have no idea why it needs so much RAM. IMHO you should have at least 1 gig of RAM anyway. It's pretty cheap, especially if you really had the money to get Flex Builder.Adobe's not really a sham, but they are getting close to being a monopoly on graphic software, just because it has become the standard.GIMP can do a lot of the stuff Photoshop can, but you would have to learn a new interface, and stuff like that.Nothing else really comes close to what Flash can do, though, in a web browser. Java applets can do it, but it takes a lot longer to develop, and not as many people have Java installed. I don't think hardly anyone has the JMF installed to play video, so flash is winning so far when it comes to web-based stuff like that.And people are able to make some flash content free, if they know actionscript enough and they found one of the open source projects. So instead of having to figure out everything you'd need to do to make the java applet, and just hoping that everyone using the site will have java installed, they can just make whatever they're doing in flash.I think java should try making its graphics APIs better, and try making an IDE like flash uses, then it might even out their use a little.But flash is really powerful, if you know how to use it.

USB Ram? I think you're talking about a flash drive, which has nothing to do with system memory. There's no way to speed up your computer with a flash drive, it's just extra space.If you get more RAM, it would definitely help speed up your whole system. And stuff probably wouldn't crash as much. I have no idea how you're able to run anything nowadays with less than 512MB of RAM, unless you're only using your computer to edit text documents or something. I don't see why you wouldn't get more RAM, it's really cheap now, and it's not hard to install.

Actually I haven't really tried that. I didn't even think of it.I'm pretty sure it's impossible to name an array '3', though, but I get what you mean.

Completely made with open source software, and almost completely Blender: Project page of Elephants Dream. I think they have a link to the video on there. Or, you can watch it online on youtube: Youtube version And someone is working on a new one, I think it's called Peach.

I just found this out today: When you're using arrays, when you reference a certain index, you can switch the pointer and the subscript around. I know I'm not explaining that very good, but here's and example: int a[] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11};int b =1;int c[] = {0,-5,11,0,0,5,0,0,0};cout << b[a][c]; //Same as c[a[b]]; See? 'b' is actually just an integer, it's not an array, or pointer, or anything. Usually, you would have to put the array first, then an integer. Like if you have an array of type int, of length 5, you could reference something at index 3 using: a[3]//OR3[a] It doesn't really make sense, but I found this on a forum, as someone's signature: int main() { char o[1920]={0}; int _; double l[]={0,-5,11,0,0,5,0,0,0},_1=0.174533; for(_=0;_<36;++_) (((int)(2[l]=((cos(_1)*(4[l]=2[l]))+(sin(_1)*7[l])))+12)*80 +((int)(7[l]=((cos(_1)*7[l])-(sin(_1)*4[l])))+40))[o]=_<27?(((int)(8[l]=((cos(-_1) *(6[l]=8[l]))+(sin(-_1)*5[l])))+8)*80+((int)(5[l]=((cos(-_1)*5[l])-(sin(-_1)*6[l]))) +40))[o]=(((int)(1[l]=((cos(_1)*(0[l]=1[l]))+(sin(_1)*3[l])))+16)*80+((int)(3[l]= ((cos(_1)*3[l])-(sin(_1)*0[l])))+40))[o]='*':'*'; _=0; while(_<1920)putchar(_++[o]);}//don't forget to include iostream and use namespace stdThat was actually more garbled when it was in their signature, I just indented it, and added new lines where the semicolons were. What really confused me was that they used and underscore as a variable(hard to see in a signature, I thought it was a space or something), and there were some parts where they switched the pointer and the subscript for an array (like in that last 'while'). All this really does is print out a bunch of asterisks in the shape of an 's' with a circle around it. I'm pretty sure that the way they coded that isn't good practice, they were just trying to condense it a lot so they could fit it in their signature. But hey, I guess I learn something new every day.

I think IE is just trying to steal more from FireFox. FF has had all of those features for a while now, and many more. And if you go to their add-ons page, there are plenty more features. Probably even more than any one person will ever need. It just depends on what all you want to use it for.FF even has an extension to render pages with IE and stuff, for if you want to make sure everyone else will see the page the same as you when you're making something.It kind of helps, though, that people can add their own stuff to FF. Microsoft just has a group of employees that have no reason other than money to come up with new stuff. People that make stuff for FF are doing it just because they can, and they want a good browser that does whatever you want. It's all in the incentive.

That's kind of an old game, but it was still kind of fun for a while, I guess. I get bored really easily, though, so that's saying a lot.

I think that would be pretty cool, but I wouldn't want one personally. I would probably spill something on it or something stupid like that, and I would probably get a kink in my neck from looking down at it too long. That looks like something that is meant to stay with the businesses. I saw a spoof of their commercial on youtube, too: Microsoft Surface Parody SarcasticGamer.com (the site that made the parody) has a bunch of parodies like that.

I think I'm kind of late for this, but stage6.com has shut down on Feb 28th. They said it was too expensive or something. Just try going to Stage6, and you'll see their long explanation of why they shut down. I'm not sure how many of you used it, but I loved it. It was a good place to find free movies, for a couple of hours before they got deleted. They also had plenty of good user videos. And when you downloaded DivX, stage6 was the first place they sent you. Now they're trying to send everyone over to Veoh. I don't really have a problem with veoh, because I use that, too. But I don't really think they needed to shut down. They didn't even give much of a warning. I was just using it a couple of days ago. I don't know what I'm going to do now. Kind of sucks, huh?

It's pretty good, but I still say you should have made the animation!

I've been trying to make an applet to draw things, and I just started looking into it, and I realized with GeneralPath's curveTo function, it looks kind of pixelated. I'm not sure if it's the AWT image, or if it's the way curveTo works.I've tried drawing the curve to a bigger image, then drawing that image on a smaller image, and that didn't really help. It just used up more memory for no reason. Then I found this thing about anti-aliasing, and that didn't help.What I'm looking for is a way to make curves that are as smooth as the curves in Flash. It's just the edges that are pixelated, but I'm not sure how to fix it.I was going to ask my brother, because he knows a lot about programming and Java, but he hasn't come over in a long time and I'm getting tired of waiting for him If you can help, I'd appreciate it.

A couple of friends and I just did a programming competition using PHP and we just used a cookie with 3 values, for the different kinds of users.We didn't make it so that it didn't show the links, though. We just made each page show a thing saying that they don't have permission to use that page. I think what you're doing makes sense, too, though. I think you should also have each page deny access for if they just type in the right url, though.Nice tutorial.

I also found on their site that it's possible to make your own extensions. I started to look into it, but it got to be way too much for me. If you're good at programming, I guess you could look into that, because it looked like you could do pretty much anything, if you know what you're doing.

It also kind of helps to use a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver just to learn HTML. You make some stuff in design view, then look at the cod that was generated, and you can learn a lot. Sometimes it can help more than the w3schools tutorials.Once you get the basics from that, it becomes really easy to code in HTML. If you want to do something new, you can always just google it, or try and figure something out with CSS or javascript.PHP is more for the functionality of the website. If you need to use a database or something, that is the most useful, unless you know some other server-side language.