Posts by Sturm

If you run a *nix you can use GTK or QT.

I just got a dv6000t laptop from HP and am running debian. Its pretty good at gaming. Make sure that on any laptop you get it has a 3945 intel wireless card. There linux friendly. Or how bout a intel mac book pro? They look pretty cool
and my friend has one and likes it.

wisdom

enlightenment or ignorence

sorry use linux and do not want to compromise my
VMware windows install.

um are you saying that you cant convert a string to
a c style string like when reading files or something. To fix this use the .c_str() member function.

example:

string dude="random";
ifstream file (dude.c_str());

So what if you umount before?

sometimes

Are in high school?

reinstall.

>Do you have a alternative?
Why yes, I do. My favorite alternative is not to clear the screen in the first place. There are so many reasons not to do it, and they all make more sense than the reasons to do it.

Thats not an alternative. Thats not doing it. In some situations you should clear the screen. If you NEVER needed to clear the screen then why do ALL OSes come with CLEAR or CLS?

Apparently you think you are better then the UNIX system creators.

>Or you could get a better environment (use linux OR VMware to code! Its a great Idea!)
Better is subjective. You'll note that I didn't agree with you about the design of Windows. I simply said that I think you're a bad programmer and stated one of the two most obvious reasons.

You think I AM a bad programmer? I never use system() anyway. _I_ never said I used it. I just said that it has its uses, if it didn't then it wouldn't be in c/c++ would it? How about people you write shell scripts? All shell scripts use system calls. Do you think that they are all bad programmers to? That sounds awfully arrogant of you.

>system("cls");
Brilliant. So what happens if I replace the Windows cls with my own malicious cls? You've just given me control, thanks! This is what's called a back door, and you left it wide open by using an …

im dubious. Every one has told me that but what is actually the Harm? Ok lets say that you umount your FS BEFORE you shutdown. Now what happens to your computer? And with NTFS and Ext3 its fast becoming irrevlevent.

I would recommend SDL bindings for openGL not
DirectX.

no

Are you addicted to an MMORPG?

no, of course not!
would a rational C++ geek/programmer like me believe in god? I think not.

Do you believe in the Church of the SubGenius? (get SLACK!)

you have critized using system() . Do you have a alternative? Do you expect programmers to just use?

for(int c=0; c<n; c++)
cout<<"\n";

Or you could get a better environment (use linux OR VMware to code! Its a great Idea!)

Are you going to ask a question?

Do you like ed?(a crappy text editor)

um not even the bios? maybe you should try
another motherboard...there not that expensive. When did this happen?

you could just hold the power button for a hardware shutdown...

have you tried?

ping www.google.com

does it work? If so then try using another web browser..firefox, opera, lynx, and links are good choices

>system("cls");
Brilliant. So what happens if I replace the Windows cls with my own malicious cls? You've just given me control, thanks! This is what's called a back door, and you left it wide open by using an insecure technique.

Only because the people at redmond are morons and designed permission and accounts in the worst way possible.

lol nano. I use it for a quick hack on a config file but for programming, latex, and text editing that will take over an hour emacs is the way to go.

No. I prefer Vi. Not as clumsy or random as Emacs. An elegant text editor for a more civilized time.

Are you serious?

Are YOU serious? VI VI VI its the editor of the beast! (you cannot edit text files with a beast or a number so you have to use emacs) RMS will exact savage retribution upon your soul!

um lol no..

Is your computer schweet?

yes

(now I can prove it!) Do you like like gnu emacs?(vs the all the other HERETICAL text editors)

I have VMware and I was wondering if I can virtualize mac os x (or any other mac version) on linux? Has anyone used VMware to virtualize macs? I dont really want to use it, it just needs to look good ;-) NOTE: i mean the intel based
macs

You get a car engine.

I put in daniweb.

On emacs, the second indent is double the size of the first one! How do you change this? Is this some wacky gnu thing or is it standard?

lisp lisp uses prefix operators instead of infix operators. so for example (+ 4 3 2) =4+3+2. OOps the above had an error! It should be :
(* (+ 69 43 23 (- 30 34) )34)
This would equal:
34(69+43+23+(30-34))
Get it?

30? Its 11 for me. Im at 1280x1024 using firefox?

30 for me . (1280x800 with iceweasel:))

Well of course they were alive during the time of humans, I believe God created them for some kind of purpose.

That seems like a shallow excuse for "I don't know." So carbon dating is a lie? Who are YOU to say that millions of scientists are wrong? It Is a SCIENTIFIC FACT that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and that evolution happens. It is as much of a fact as the fact that I have five fingers on each hand (granted I might be lying...:)).

I hate there level up system. If you want to fight anyone good you have to train as a fighter. Why cant you just be a mage? Also theres no classes so its really annoying.

You get a crazy russion guy.

I put in my gp2x (google it).

So do you believe that dinosaurs lived during the time of humans and now they are extinct? How could species go extinct if god created them? Why would god create humans if he knew that they would just kill all the other species due there phenomenal intelligence?

I have another question:
"God" created us in his image right? So why do we have tail bones? Why do we have light sensors at the back of our eyes? Why do we get backpain (we are still used to walking on four legs)? Why do we get goosebumps? If god created us in his image, he must be pretty flawed.(I wonder if god has artheritis?)

first off, I am a Fundamentalist Christian... which means I believe in the Bible as being literally true. It also means that I believe the universe is in existence because of a Divine Creator.

So you believe dinasaurs did not exist? And that
museums are just faking it? Surely you jest...

Sorry..such a long thread I have forgotten some of the previous conversation.

Christina do you believe in evolution?

God has no need to have been created, since He exists either outside time (where cause and effect do not operate) or within multiple dimensions of time (such that there is no beginning of a plane of time). Hence God is eternal, having never been created. Although it is possible that the universe itself is eternal, eliminating the need for its creation, observational evidence contradicts this hypothesis, since the universe began to exist only ~13.7 billion years ago. The only possible escape for the atheist is the invention of a kind of super universe, which can never be confirmed experimentally (hence it is metaphysical in nature, and not scientific).

Why did "god" create the universe?

Where did "god" come from?

You get unhandled exceptions (the user was a retard).

I put in myself!

I know I've said this like a thousand times, but I find so much more peace and hope in God. I have peace because I know that death isn't the end for me.. and I have hope because I will finally meet my Savior face to face.. along with all my other lost loved ones who believed in Him. It's a good feeling to know.

Im sure it is a good feeling. It is very hard being a atheist. People say that ignorence is bliss. At school I am usaully the most active person in experiments, discussions, etc. One day I decided not to be that active or involved. Not caring has a very nice feeling, not participating has a very nice feeling, not KNOWING has a very nice feeling. Ignorence is bliss. But ignorence is also a stiffling cushion that chokes and steals. AI

The funny thing is that christians try to convert me very often. But the thing is I could never believe in god. I just could not do it.

But there is one question I'd like to ask....
Do you not fear never seeing your lost loved ones again?

Do you fear falling asleep?

wouldn't really say that ceasing to exist is nothing to fear. It's very strange to think about it.. simply not existing.. I think about it often, and I am fearful of it. I fear death above all things..

I agree with josh: I fear death. I also think about it …

From now on lets use lisp synatx!

(* (+ 69 43 23 (- 30 34) 34)

heres a tutorial for good file writing: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files.html

o there's this one question I've always wanted answered....
What is the difference between agnostics and atheists??

I see thre being basically three different levels of "atheism"
Agnostic: Do not know if they believe in god or not (lots of scientists are agnostic so they can be scientifically fair)
Atheist: A person who does not beleive in god.
Anti-theist: a person who has a direct oppositiion to god and religion(I am one).

What do atheists believe happens to them after death? Nothing?

Yes absolutely nothing. I ,like josh, am a nihilist. What evidence is there of life after death? The bible? Hardely. Can someone give me some evidence that there is life after death? Do christians believe that animals go to heaven to? How bout space aliens?

Um whats with the crappy smilies?:|

You lose 5 int and 5 str (it was cursed).

I put in vecna's eye.

Out of interest what are all the Mac/Linux folks doing now the BBC and Channel 4's decision to use Windows DRM on their download services?

I use bittorrent to ;)

Can you really plan a person for believing in god hundreds of years ago? No you cannot. As you cannot blame a person for believing the world is flat if the the society dictates so and the society is against free ideas and expresssion.

lol.. Actually, all religions are growing.. perhaps not at the same rate, but all are increasing none the less. And I don't know the exact numbers, but I was unaware that atheism was growing that quickly.. However, I'm not quite sure where they get these numbers from.. I doubt most atheists care enough to actually report that they are atheist.

Um thats impossible. If atheism is growing NON PROPORTIONALLY to the population of the earth then all other religions would be DECREASING.

Not necessarily.. the other religions may just be increasing at a slower rate..

Yes you do have a point. I got my facts from christina. the website she got it from presumably was http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

It is worth mentioning that the 1.1 billion atheist number is really only 550 million. (see above)

Ok if atheism is increasing non proportionaly then one or more religions MUST be increasing less then proportionaly. But this still means that the percentage of atheists on Earth is increasing.

Sorry for the bad post in advance I had to write it quick.

Logic and simple addition would say otherwise...

Um thats impossible. If atheism is growing NON PROPORTIONALLY to the population of the earth then all other religions would be DECREASING.

But many people will be disappointed to hear that eventually religion will die as will god. Look at the statistics, every year the number of atheist increases (and not propertional to the population growth).

2.1 billion Christians in this world today.
1.3 billion Muslims.
1.1 billion Atheists, Agnostics, Nonreligious, Secular.
900 million Hindus.
394 million Chinese traditional religion.
376 million Buddhists.

I don't think so.....

Did you read what I said? I said that the number of atheists GROW every year AND not PROPERTIONAL to the population growth.

Ok lets do the math in July 2006 there were 6,525,170,264 people on the Earth. Thats means that 16.858% of the people on earth are atheists, anti-theists, agnostics, etc. This is _ALOT_ more that say 25 years ago.

Key word here is "God". If you refuse to give Him credit for something that happens by denying His existence, how can you experience a miracle at all? For you, the miracle is something that you simply can't explain. Nothing more.

I have never seen anything that would be considered a miracle even by christians. Why doesn't my code compile, why does linux not boot, why does my sound not work, why did X just crash for no reason? Are these miracles? Because I cannot explain it, does it mean that its a miracle or a sign from god? No course not! But this is how other people think. Oh my cancer is cured, it must be a …

Just wondering, how expensive is that? How bout fios, do you have that in the UK?

No intellitext for ME. I use links! I think everything is good. (no ads, intellitext, crap, junk for me)

you get a bad movie, I put in tux.