Posts by server_crash

I didn't know you could have two decimal points in money.... Oh well. Send me the dough and I'll answer your question.

I hate the microsoft complaints more than anything. It's like a signature I saw, "If you hate microsoft so much, then shut up and switch to something different".

Tae Kwon Do, not Karate. There's a difference :) I'm not really picky about that, though, until someone else gets picky. Heck, even Koreans sometimes call Tae Kwon Do "Korean Karate".

I don't get too much into the UFC/NHB stuff myself, I'm just not into that high of a danger level in a competition setting. Matter of fact, I don't even really care for sparring, or tournaments. I do it because it keeps me fit and keeps my skills sharp, but I've never been in a sparring match where it's "legal" to kick someone's knee, dislocate it, then jam your finger in their eye.

That's real Tae Kwon Do. Heck, that's real any martial art. Most practitioners get caught up with what they do in class day-in, day-out, and get stuck in the mindset that a fight is just a more intense sparring match. But, there's much more at stake, and it should be treated as such.

I only box my brothers. We don't kick or anything, and we have gloves and masks on so no one ever gets hurt. There was this one time my brother gave me a good uppercut to the chin that kept me stumbling for about 30 seconds. I prefer 'ground' fighting better, because my arms aren't long enough for the stand up style. I'm a champ at the arm bar so I always win if I can get whomever I fight to the ground, but in a standup match I normally lose.

Tell me what you're situation is first. There are some things better than others, but it all depends on what you're doing.

If you're just talking general stuff here, then you must first know that Strings are immutable. That means there's really no way to modify the original string.

If you wanted to insert a character at the beginning:

String original = "string";
String modified = "a" + original;

of course you can just modify the 'original' variable, but it's the same thing as the 'modified' variable because Strings are immutable. I would personally recommend using two variables instead of reassigning and making that one object lost in space.

I'll have to agree with Rashakil on this one. Math is extremely important. A few years back I would have told you that math is just worthless crap you will never use, but once you get into the more strenuous classes you'll see the real importance of it. I have the first 6 chapters of calculus right now and it's really taught me a lot. You'll be able to solve programming problems more logically and easily.

I don't know what it is, but I just felt like trying it out whatever it was. And I don't bash MS like the ignorant linux users. I love MS and what they do. I also have beta releases of VC++.NET, VB.NET, and J#. If you don't like beta releases, then don't use them. Simple.

Man, with work, I'm wondering when it's ever going to happen.

I pull 4 10 hour days, and I could only go to class 2 days a week. With the type of classes we have, that's just enough to hurt yourself... :(

You do karate? Boxing with UFC rules is more fun ;)

Is it really that hard?

if(isalpha(char))

I don't know if that takes a string or not, but if it's only a character then just loop through.

I agree. The older models seem to be really nice. My uncle has about 3 of the really old latitudes that are really small and sleek and those things are nice. He's had them for close to 7 or 8 years... I could be wrong about those figures, but I know they're close.

I guess you have to look at it with the marketing perspective. If a computer never broke, then you would only need one and the company would never make money. Take for instance washing machines. Even though technology has progressed they seem to die A LOT earlier than the really old models which had the intention to last.

What companies offer lifetime warranties? Certainly not any major computer manufacturer. That would add so much to the cost of a PC, no one would be willing to buy one.

This was a custom built pc for the same amount that performed 10 times better. I think it was my video card and a few other things that had a lifetime warranty... My HD has a ten year warranty, while in my crappy dell it died in a year.

Was this within warranty? If so, did you contact Dell, and have the unit serviced? If the device was indeed bad, it would have gotten taken care of.

Yep, that problem was under warranty. They were extremely fast in fixing it too. Sent someone out to my house, which impressed me.
I did complain about my cd/dvd drive not working properly and they never emailed me back... Then I called after the warranty was up and they said I never sent any emails, which really pissed me off, because I sent two about that problem.

I don't make it private who I work for. But, on this forum, I speak for myself, and no one else. And, as someone who simply works "in the industry", I can tell you that there is NO major computer manufacturer that designs computers to fail at any given time. There are, however, such concepts as Mean Time Between Failures, which do give reasonable expectations of how often things may fail. Warranty offerings are …

What brought about that silly rant?

Is it normal for a computer to go bad in a couple of months???? We've had all kinds of computers and Dell simply is the worst and their their tech support is terrible. I shouldn't have to buy an extended warranty for my computer to last 1.5 years, but if you get a Dell you better be ready to spend an extra 5000 on warranties. All it is is paying for the crap before it happens, because IT WILL. So, I chose not to buy a warrranty because I shouldn't have to. They put junky parts in their computer with obvious intentions. After my laptop had a billion SERIOUS problems in less than a year, I just threw it on the shelf. Yeah, I could have bought the parts to fix it, but I'm not giving Dell another dime. Instead, I decided to build my own computer.... and you know what? For the same prices that Dell charges for their CRAP parts, you can buy the best quality out there and get 10 year to lifetime warranties. Oh, and that was without any extra cost.

Ok, you wanted to talk about a few things:

Talk about how good or bad the battery life is

Terrible. It was excellent for the first few months and LITERALLY died down to where it only lasted 20 minutes. There's your good battery life.

Try talking about a machine's price vs features ratio.

It sucks. My desktop costed barely more and it …

I would just use StringTokenizer. You could easily find a good tutorial on that and it's better than using indexOf and simple math to try and parse everything.

The funny thing about jennings is that I told my parents he would go all the way. I was, of course, joking but I said it just because he was a software engineer. Kind of ironic he turned out this way.

I saw that on ebaums. It's funny, but I would have said the same thing. Who would have known he was talking about a rake???

I emailed you. If I wasn't first then you can still give it to me.

I'm too poor to by a plain ticket from NC and my parents don't even trust me to drive 5 minutes away from our house.

Here's the code:

Oh wait, I don't take orders from you.

See, if you would have at least showed a little effort and proved you at least know something about what you're doing, then I would help. But I don't take orders from you.

If you're new then you need to do some research. Google JDBC.

I can see how you might have one class and one 'driver' program, but I don't understand why you would want more than one class.

You could create, of course, a roman numeral class:

class Roman_Numeral
{
   public:
      Roman_Numeral(const char*);
      ~Roman_Numeral();

      int get_conversion();
      char get_numeral();

   private:
      char numeral;
};

Something like that. It's early in the morning so there could be a few errors in there, but that should get you started. There are many ways of doing this, but that's just my $.02.

Please don't use that word in your last sentence.

Anyway, I prefer alienware laptops. We've had a few gateways and nothing went wrong with them ever.

My bad, you were talking about databases. Then create a connection and then look through querying the database.

You need to learn about file operations.

Here is a basic structure of what you need:

File f = new File("file.txt");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));

String line = "";
while ( (line = br.readLine()) != null)
{
}

Same here. I like books much better to start with and then I google everything else. I sometimes print off the harder stuff and read it.

Don't get a Dell.

I'm starting to like you more and more. I spent my whole life savings on a $1600 dell laptop and it didn't even last a year. It had major problems while under warranty, but those were fixed. As soon as it went out of warranty, behold, great and mighty mishaps disabled the laptop to a point where I refuse to give dell another nickel.

I meant too many braces or whatever those curly things are. It's hard to tell since all your code is lined up on the left.

Ya know, in all honesty I sort of miss him too. He was really the only one who debated with me in chit chat ;)

Have you emailed the old man dani?

It was something on there about a real life senario or something... I don't think it was about you.

Looks like you have too many commas. Please use code tags and indent your code.

Nice sites. I like the information on them. I found it interesting someone is making 50 grand a month in revenue from their site.... impressive.

I'm not.. I just think it's weird. I can see it just fine so there's no need to change it. The other color, on the other hand, did need a change. I couldn't see that at all.

sed to be PR7. It's now a PR6, but I'm happy with that. There are so many directories nowadays. May I ask what your model will be? Will it be an everything directory or a niche directory that is targeted to a particular group of users? Will there be paid inclusion, will it be free, will you require a link back?

You have a directory???

olddocks, I'm not sure how to respond. Building a web directory reaching a PR of 6 will be tough. One thing you have to realize is people really don't want to submit to a directory unless it has a higher pagerank than their page (or at least above 0).... I think you'll always have people that will submit links, but the majority will only come after you've gotten your PR up to a certain point.. (I guess that's the whole question, how to get your PR up).

Dmoz looks like a dead directory. any site you submit to them either it is going to sit out or it would take long months or years and their editors are struggling to cope up the submissions.

Agreed. I think I've submitted several times and haven't EVER got a notice of anything.

I can't remember if you said its free or not, but you should start out with the directory having free submitions... Maybe even provide some sort of automation system that automatically adds them. Promote as much as you can …

It looks gray to me ;) For some reason my monitor is rendering your quote colors very weird. If I scroll up, I can see it really well. If I scroll down, then it starts to fade.

I wouldn't worry about outputing to a file. That could big a consuming operation as you may be continiously writting to/from a file. Use an ArrayList. You don't have to have a definite size.

Of course mine will only print ten starts. The variable was set to 100. Get the user input and go from there.

I don't feel like reading through the code so something like this should work:

int x = 100;

int numStarts = x/10;

for (int i=0; i<numStars; ++i)
{
   System.out.print("*");
}

If I understand correctly, all you need to do is call repaint();

I assume you need help in getting those coordinates???

If so, then it should be fairly simple. If the object is moving across the screen, then obviously you are doing something to change it's coordinates. Just get the values that are changing. If you provide more information I can help you more.

I did it for you good buddy:

1. T or F. Static methods must be declared before dynamic methods in a class.
A -- That's a big 10-4

2. T or F. Static methods can access static variables of a class, but instance methods cannot.
A -- False

3. T or F. You can override instance methods in a subclass.
A -- False

4. T or F. If b is of class B and doit() is an instance method defined in B, then b.doit() always refers to the doit() from class B.
A -- False

5. T or F. Static methods cannot access the private instance variables of of an object, but they can access the public instance variables.
A -- False

6. T or F. More than one class can exist in a file, but classes cannot be nested.
A -- true

7. T or F. Instance variables can be initialized when they are declared.
A -- FALSE

8. T or F. Local variables do not have an initial value by default.
A -- T-rue

9. T or F. A Java class can inherit from two unrelated classes.
A -- true

10. T or F. A Java class can implement two unrelated interfaces.
A -- false

11. T or F. Two classes cannot be defined in the same file since that would mean the file would have to have two different names.
a -- ohhhh yeahhhh

12. …

My advice: don't get a Dell.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I LOVE YOU

I didn't meant to correct you... Actually I didn't even know you posted that ;)

That's just one of the things I find really weird about interfaces and it took me a while to grasp it. I always thought it was, 'you extend classes with special functionality', but 'implement interfaces'. I guess it's just different when you're talking about interfaces. Oh well, I don't use them very often.

It's confusing stuff. What I think is weird is how an interface can extend as many interfaces as it wants, but a regular class can only extend one..

Actually, with an interface I believe you can extend as many interfaces as you like.

Hopefully she doesn't have a ban button.

Any .NET language would obviously go to Visual Studio.NET. For Java I really don't have a favorite. Personally, I like using JEdit and the command line while working in Java. It's a little more work, but when you get use to something like that you don't want to change. As for C++, I use bloodshed. It's probably my favorite to use. It is an IDE and it doesn't quit indent code correctly so you're forced to edit the text a little.

I guess it all boils down to personal preference. Person A might like Borland products, while person B really likes using the command line. Really the only advise I can give is to try a bunch of them and form your own opinion.

I think we should get rid of the c and c++ forum just for Narue. I know she would like that.

nonconforming? What are the others conforming to?

I like FOX news. It's about the only station out there that doesn't give the idiotic politically correct liberal side of the story.

I don't agree with seperating C and C++, but since I'm not very active in the forum my opinion doesn't deserve any merit. I believe you'll get a lot of posts in the c forum that's c++ and vice versa. I think it's less likely to happen for the vb.net vs vb classic.

You could always ask people to specify the language in their thread title:

C++ -- Please give virus code
vs
C -- please give virus code

Of course you'll have law breakers, but it would work for the majority.... I've seen it done in other forums and it's a really nice way of doing things.

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