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Hey guys I'm working on a project for making a java based version of the Rummikub game and I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with an algorithm for determing if a joker being played in a set is valid. If anyone can throw some ideas on what to check for and do it would be great. I'm only starting to look into it now but its becoming clear it that it can be a bit complicated for my small brain. You can google the rummikub game if you have no idea and the rules behind it. Looking forward to hear any responses and idea to help me out thanks

wow some of your stuff is amazing thanks for sharing. I'm not as original as I would like to be at the moment so I mostly have to copy reference pictures but I'm hoping to get to the stage where I can remember how certain things are drawn or suppose to be drawn and then create my own. Here is a painting I attempted to do about a year ago its of this artist I like cookies for anyone who guesses her name

I did still do not know how people paint hair its so hard to pull off.

I think it looks good! I like drawing too so it's great to meet a fellow artist. I used to draw a lot too, but I mostly draw anime-style. I don't draw often now because I'm busy, but I still love admiring art.

Yeah it does take a lot of time to produce art that's probably the same reason why I didn't do it as much but seeing other peoples work inspires you sometimes and makes you want to create your own.

Here's my attempt to drawn and paint in photoshop. Its not my first but probably my best attempt so far from trying create something from scratch. I started off with initial sketch of the outline of the head and face structure I wanted and trying to keep things proportional. I have a book that describes it but its kinda hard to understand at times so they supply images as well. The book is by Burne Hograth and its called dynamic anatomy. He is a master in this field and I think the guy who created spawn character learned off this book too.I hope to be a fraction of their skill one day . I don't consider myself an artist but I'm surprised my shading and painting is improving so much. I'm still not happy with everything especially the features. I still dont know how to draw them properly and correctly but I think I'll keep learning and improving. I will use this post to keep track of this painting through its phases and update with more screen shoots. I don't know why I'm posting this really but I guess I just want to show you that painting isn't awfully too hard if I can do it then you guys can too. Don't feel like you cant draw or paint or you lost your talent if you try you can do it. We have such a huge community here and everyone is all into computers and web hosting why isn't there anyone who is into drawing ?I'm sure everyone is creative in their own way. Art and painting is just so awesome I'm so disappointed I didn't keep doing it through high school. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm ranting on about this if your not interested in art as much as I am all good to each their own. For those who are interested in seeing some awsome work just go to you tube and search for speed painting. Most of it starts off real basic and look horrible but in the end the results are unreal. PeaceSone

Ok I saw this this morning but I had no time so I'm only looking at it now. Your using an id tag in the new page but it has no define CSS for it that's why its not showing up correctly in fire fox. Also there is another problem you are using absolute positioning to control the heading and content so I guess it still works but not my idea way to do layouts.I've attached a screen shot in Firefox view with firebug. I checked the first style on your main page and just changed the id to that so its using that style 'new-content-main'Yours is 'new-content-title' so either make a new style for that and adjust accordingly.You will also have to adjust 'new-content' id as you can see in the screen shot its being effected as well but keep in mind if your other pages are using that same id it will be effected too so there it is I've pointed out the problem hope you can decide on a solution and have fun

Hey I checked out your site and I think you forgot to update something

Š 2004 Your Corporation. All rights reserved

Maybe you should change that to your respective company name and maybe update the year.

To the original poster I still do not get what your trying to say here. A programmer codes and a coder doesn't program? To me they are both the same you cant really just code and not program unless your just copy and pasting code you don't understand then they obviously wouldn't qualify as either. I don't get the mentality to try and distinguish between the two and putting coders on a lower level then programmers

Yeah that games pretty violent for a kid. The game is a mod of the original half life but its not correct that they be calling it half life since it is a completely new game all together. Its just using the same game engine I think as half life did. Maybe the game engine it self was called halflife engine? I dont know.

I have to agree with the previous post its the experience and quality of work you produce that matters. You can have a degree and paper but if your work is not of high standard you probably wont get hired over the next guy who has no degree yet his work could be outstanding. Its tough and I've been turned down many times myself because of lack of experience so the only way to remedy it is to work on the experience even if it means working for free. Its not really working for free in a sense because your working for yourself to better equip your self with experience on working on real projects. Find something you enjoy to work on and try and stay motivated. Just keep producing work and you'll get better thats when people will want to hire you. The other way is to know people and they can hook you up with jobs but just don't do what my friend did and take on a job he cannot do lol. Start small and work on building up big. Work hard and it will pay off. I know what you mean about not being able to focus I'm much like you but I noticed that when I do stay focused it does yield results. Make a thread on here with some work you did and we can discuss it maybe someone experience can even point out things we don't see.It seems like you did a lot of programing did you keep any of it? I produced alot of work myself during years of experimenting but most of it was not show quality. When you work on sometime think about producing it to a high enough standard where you can actually use in your portfolio and show employers.Thats all I can think of stay focused and try not get distracted.Looking forward to seeing some of your work here soon.

I'll try that out. The reason I turn it into pixels is because my final working area is in photoshop. I draw all my shapes in freehand (illustrator now) because thats what I am used to and it also had more controls for me to manipulate paths. In photoshop I never got how it work fully because I did all my paths in freehand back when I was learning about vectors.I guess I just need to keep looking at it more in photoshop. they have been improving a lot over the versions so maybe there is more control for paths in PS CS3.

Thanks for clearing that up, as you can see I have no clue about that aspect of hosting when it comes to .htaccess . Of the two admin's I cant say whos on more then the other I never really noticed but I would say they are on about the same amount and its all random so you can just PM both of them if you want to be sure. As for the part about bothering them I wouldn't say you're the worse I've seen threads on topics that are so trivial that get their attention so don't worry. Besides I cant wait to see your site.

Yeah painting isn't really my thing either. I only ever sketched and shaded in on paper but its surprising easy on the computer to paint. There is no messy junk from real paint or crayons or what ever you use and its pretty accurate too. The thing I just found out was having the right brush and pressure helped a lot. You just need to adjust size for precision. Thanks for pointing out that topic to me I remember now (my memory is so bad). Manga style isn't really my thing I was never good at it the only thing I draw was Goku and that was using a reference picture. It wasn't too hard but it just took a lot of time. I wouldn't be able to draw that or anything yet without reference to guide me. Back when I was a kid I used to draw a lot of transformer characters, Megaton especially so I think in a way I still need to find my own style. Your work is great if you have some time and can find our old sketches post them up here for us to see. I'll try build my collection up and post them soon but they are still too rough for my liking lol to show on here.

OK I know this is a graphics forum but I've browsed through most of it and don't come across anything specific to art like drawing and painting in general. I'm not including making sigs or banners because I don't consider them the only form of art or design. Thats just one area and I believe we need a place where people who do other forms of art can congregate. There are other communities like deviant art but most of us starting out get kind of intimidated and feel so small amongst those experienced individuals there.I'm pretty comfortable here at Xisto, I haven't been here too long but its a relaxed place and I'd like to meet people with similar interest particularly those who draw and paint. I do a bit of drawing and painting when I can though most of the time its only when I'm bored and need something else to do beside programming. Last night I spent like two hours shading in one of my drawings of a human head/face in photoshop and its turning out pretty good. I would say I'm progressing but still have a long way to go. I'm learning off this one book on how to draw human figures correctly but yeah the shading part really does help a lot in making it look real. Its still in black and white at this stage until it looks good then I'll start coloring it in.So is there anyone else here at Xisto interested in drawing and painting? I'd like to talk and learn off anyone if thats possible it would be great to see others work too. I don't know I just don't feel like going to deviant art and trying to get to know new people there thats all so I'm trying here first. I even had this one idea to post an add at my university to see if anyone in art would be interested in learning some web and we could teach each other other skills .Happy surfing

Ever use the pen tool in Photoshop or illustrator to draw shapes and then fill them with color or even stroke them? Sometimes with certain curves you get blocky edges and they show real rough. How do you minimize this if any at all? I notice they appear on some curves but not all. The paths I draw look fine but when you fill them its just horrible. There is no other thing I can think of and changing the path angles would defeat the purpose of having that path drawn that way. Is it just because of the extreme angle of the curves or is there something else to it?

heres my default .htaccess file its in the www/_private/ folder

# -FrontPage-Options None<Limit GET POST>order deny,allowdeny from allallow from allrequire group authors administrators</Limit><Limit PUT DELETE>order deny,allowdeny from all</Limit>AuthType BasicAuthName sonesay.trap17.comAuthUserFile /home/sonesay/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwdAuthGroupFile /home/sonesay/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

The last few lines has reference to some files in the web root folder of _vti_pvt/* maybe those are important I don't know but it may pay to check if you still have some of these files or similar. I never touched my .htaccess so this should be mostly default unless some C panel settings I've done have altered them. The only thing I remember doing in c panel is adding add on domains though so I don't know. Good Luck.

From what I understand what ever content you have in a different language you must also provide another page with equivalent content but in English. Someone more familiar with these rules should be able to clarify it for us.

I hope you didn't delete any files in there before you moved your files in because I've come a cross a post a long time back where a user did that and apparently those files contain certain configuration files for their particular hosting account. The only fix was for the admin to re-run the hosting script for their account again.

Oh thanks for that information I didn't know they existed. That's good having syntax highlighting for that but I was hoping we could get them for some other languagues like PHP, Java, Javascript, C, C++ and what ever else is out there.

Hey all, I'm not sure if its been brought up but I couldn't find any topics on this. Has anyone brought up the idea of updating the blocks to allow syntax highlighting? This would be a nice feature to have but I don't know if its something that can be easily added on. I don't know about you guys but when I see long blocks of code in the same color from users I just don't want to read them. Especially when they are put in a small box container about 100px high and I have to scroll through it. Making code easier to read would help a lot.

Peace
Sone.

Hello and welcome, Its great to have you join Xisto. You've come to the right place for free hosting as there is yet any out there to beat Xisto. I hope you stick around and share your knowledge with us. I see you've already added some very useful information to some of the threads here that's great. See you on the boards.Sone

This is an on going problem with the Xisto servers. There have been many topics for this issue over the last few weeks on and off. its been fix then it appears again and so on. You cant do anything about it they have to fix it. Your other problem I dont think they allow scripts to access remote mysql databases so you may need to wait for them to fix it.

Back in the day I think the problem was with game consoles they lacked memory as they were expensive back then. So later in their life time they relased expansion packs for memory upgrades and I'm sure thats what it was. I cant see it being any other computer part that can be added on later to benifit a console as much as memory. I had an amiga when I was a kid too and all I did on that was play games lol but It had a huge slot for memory expansion as well I think a big 1MB more and it cost a few hundred dollars lol.I believe the expansion for the N64 has 8MB of memory.

The problem with that kind of functino is because not two of the CMS structures are alike so intergrating them can be a tricky task. I'm guessing thats why the author as you mention has abbandoned it. It still is none the less an interesting topic and feature to have. One other problem I can see is data being duplicated twich. Once on one cms and again on the other. When users regisisters and update profiles how has it worked in the past? two entries are made into each CMS database? This is not ideal but if it works then great. I think what your trying to do is reasonable enough i.e get functions and features out of two CMS but can I ask what are you interested in that isnt included in one or the other?

Thanks for your advice your right things will get better in fact they are already. I've come to appreciate my real friends a lot more. The ones I've known ever since I was a kid are still my friends and I've been hanging around them more to keep my mind off her. One of my mates said go play games lol so that's what I have been doing but yeah once I stop it just comes back so its not a permanent fix. Well I got university to keep me busy and I'm doing a lot of interesting subjects this semester, Web development (Joke paper we using ASP.net), physical database design, software design and implementation, human computer interaction.I guess its not the same as getting the attention of a girl lol but its better then most things. I shouldn't even be thinking about girls anyway I cant do that and study its too hard.Thanks again

Thanks you for your responses. Yeah its a very confusing situation but time away has made things a bit clearer. Shes like completely ignoring me now but I guess its for the best in a way. I guess I was so blinded by what I wanted it clouded my thinking and judgment. Shes told me several times that she just wanted to be friends but thinking back there has been many times where I think its fair to say shes flirted and lead me on, there's times when shes drunk she'll call me up talk to me like we were more then friends. Maybe shes just messing around with me in a joking way? I don't know its still messed up. I don't know I'm the kind of person who cant just be talking to someone a lot and not have any feelings for them.I shouldn't blame her though, In the end it was my fault, I lost a good friend even though shes a bit crazy I still liked having out with her. Its too bad I had to find out the hard way that we cant be friends if I liked her too much. I should of not expected too much or anything especially from her knowing what kind of state she was in. I couldn't just be there for her as a friend, I wanted more so yeah I'm wrong in that sense. I still want to be friends with her but I don't know if its even possible now. I'm tired of trying so I guess I'll just leave it at that. If she calls she calls if not then whatever right. I don't even know why I even care so much sometimes...PeaceSone.

Ok... I've come to the decision that using pure XHTML1.0 Strict isn't going very far with my website as everything (The URLS, etc) are hard-coded and so, if I were to upload it to a live server, I would have to change the names and stuff, all over again...
Now I've decided 3 different options...

Option 1: Use a CMS, if I go with this option, it would almost 70% Likely that I would go with Joomla!

Option 2: Use a Portal for phpBB3.x.x. If I go with this option, it would be 80% likely that I go with "Stargate Portal"

Option 3: Is that I make my own homepage (and other pages, i.e. News, etc) using the phpBB3 API (which basically allows access of the session data, the language files, etc.)

With option 1, the thing is... I am not familiar with Joomla! and there are not much bridges for it and the bridges that are there, I don't like them very much... And I hate having a user called "Admin" it is SO overused these days!

With option 2, the good thing is... I've used past version of Stargate Portals and I liked it, the bad thing is that there are so many bugs and coding errors. If 0.4.0 doesn't come out soon, this one will have to be ruled out...

And option 3... The good thing about this idea is that it allows for me to get more familiar with php, and more familiar with the phpBB3.x.x API. I will also be able to incorporate things the way I want them... But the bad thing, is that I won't have ACP integration (Meaning, all the stuff will have to be edited manually in the language file), and updating phpBB versions will be a pain...
So, Xisto'ers what do you think would be the best decision?

What do you mean by the first statement? Do you mean you hard code the whole address in like "localho http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;? because if your doing that of course you'llhave to change it when you upload to the web. Use relative paths and you should not have this problem.

I would go for option 3 as it seems more interesting if your up for a challenge then go for it.

It doesn't look like a firewall problem to me because you are getting the 403 error which is return by the web server so it looks more like a permission error. Can you view the site locally with any problems? was there any changes you made to the config file? Any other changes you may have made that may affect it? Check the permissions on the files/folders as well of your www root. I cant think of anything else that could be affecting it.

<Directory "c:/wamp/www/"> #
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
# for more information.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride all

#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#

# onlineoffline tag - don't remove
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from 190.168.0.1

</Directory>

I don't know much about the http.cofig and configuring blocks but that last few lines does it do anything?