Posts by jwenting

it's the task of a moderator to reply to posts that get no replies otherwise ;)
And we're not allowed to just delete things that aren't technically in violation of the rules...

- wrong forum
- I never heard of "gamegain"
- that system should run MSFS pretty nicely (what version of MSFS anyway?)
- don't bother with framerate counters in FS. They don't say much, haven't in years.

THE most influential game of all time must be the original Pong.

For RTS games, the most influential ever is Total Annihillation. It redefined the genre when it was released in 1997 (I believe it was, maybe late 1996) and set the standard to which RTS games are measured to this day.

"how lazy kids get away with not learning to think by getting others to do their homework for them".

come back in a few years. Maybe we'll have run out of more urgent matters by then and have time to help you.

and don't forget that those "native" executables are usually exewrappers which pack a JVM together with all the classes the application need into a single executable, so when installing them you're implicitly installing a JVM...

http://java.sun.com and look up the tutorials. Everything should become clear to you, or at least clearer than it is now.

or a LinkedList, or a HashSet, or a TreeSet, all depending on your actual requirements...

Try Head First Java.
And forget about Servlets and JEE until you know the core language well.

only cars made for countries where they use the imperial "system" (or what passes for a "system", "abomination" would be a more appropriate word) do so, Serunson.

singleton brewery management operations planning tool description.

wrong forum. This is the C++ forum, not the C+= forum!

that's exactly what it doesn't want to do with its machine, so for it there's no way to run Java programs.

if you just want to keep track of how many instances you create, add the static counter to the BankAccount class and increase it in the constructor.

But be aware that that will not keep track of the number of instances actually being accessible to the program, only the number of instances being created.
It also will not keep track of all instances being created anywhere at any time. It's limited to the scope of a single classloader.

read a basic tutorial. And don't use Vector.

no.

Yes. JFrame is the application window (or any other window in the application that's not a JDialog.
You build up substructures to be contained in that window on JPanels and place those in the JFrame (or in other JPanels which get placed eventually in the JFrame).

Experiment, layer components, combine different layout managers to get the effects you want.

applets can only connect to resources on the server where they were hosted from, UNLESS they're signed applets.

That's probably the way to go.
Add a Handler that spools to some memory structure (maybe a List) and add a Listener to that memory structure that notifies the Swing control it needs updating.

and even if ints were immutable, he's talking about arrays which certainly aren't (unless explicitly declared final of course).

you don't even need a mobile phone to send SMS messages. You need a contract with an SMS service provider who will supply an SDK to use.

Scientists the world over agree that CO2 emissions are the driving force behind global warming, a scientific theory that has yet to be disproven.

Just as scientists all over the world agree that it isn't.

Yes but the Industrial Revolution of the early 20th century has changed the way that the climate changes.

It hasn't.

I am constantly hearing in the local weather report things like "Hottest November on record", "Driest October in history"

While noone talks about the cold, wet, summers that have plagued Europe for 2 years now...
In fact they had to falsify historical temperature records to keep up the fantasy that it's getting warmer...

Surely you mean before we started burning coal and oil?

Nope. Mount St Helens comes to mind, erupting in 1980. I think people started burning oil and coal before that?

I am proud to call myself a conservative greenie. I am not a radical, but I do believe that it is our responsibility to look after the planet - after all it is the only one we have.

And we can do that without deliberately destroying our economies and installing a world government of radical greens to rule over everyone else who will by that time be shivering around little open fires in cave openings, because that's where the radicals want us to end up.

I'm all for not wasting stuff, trying to get clean production.
But remember that European and north American industry is …

Kyoto will have NO effect on the "climate" whatsoever with or without the US.

US CO2 emissions (which is what Kyoto is all about and which are utterly pointless when it comes to "the climate") are DOWN and have been going down for several years now despite (or more likely because of, given what's happening in countries which did sign up) the US not signing on to the economic suicide pact that's Kyoto.

Kyoto will cripple economies right at the time when they could do so much to reduce polution. That's because only economies that are strong can do anything to reduce polution and Kyoto is designed (that's its entire reason for being) to destroy economies.
If energy prices go up dramatically (as they are in Europe for example) the cost of both production and consumption explodes. Travel becomes next to impossible because noone (except rich environmentalists who make hundreds of billions from selling "carbon credits") can afford to do it anymore.
Tourism dries up, which is THE driving factor in many areas.
People once again have a choice to either build poluting industries or no industries because they don't have the funds to build clean industries.
And that's the real purpose of Kyoto, not "the environment" but reducing the western world to 3rd world status.

In the meantime the "climate" changes however it bloody well likes to, without giving any lipservice to what Al Gore thinks it should do.
It's been …

not urgent. We may have time to look at it this time 2010.

both of which are usually ranked after the American colleges.

Only by Americans ;)
There's also the Sorbonne in Paris, one of the finest universities in the world (for some studies).
Leiden university in the Netherlands.
And many others.

Each university has a specialisation. For each field of study there are those recognised as better than others.
If I were to go for a PhD in theoretical mathematics and I knew Russian, I'd probably choose a university in Moscow for example. Russia has the best mathematicians in the world.
For applied physics, MIT is usually recognised as being among the best.
For astronomy, there are others again.
For languages and international studies, Leiden is internationally recognised as the place to be.
For international law, Harvard and UCLA are important.
etc. etc.

I thought you drive in the middle of the road, just following the line painted there to get to your destination?

not possible. As you'd have realised had you indeed done some minimal research into what RFID actually is and how it works.

Just because both technologies use radio doesn't mean they're identical.

why should you not? But no, you don't need to speak PERFECT English.
But something better than the gibberish you seem to think passes for it is certainly a requirement to be able to communicate effectively in an international community.

And indeed, with an attitude like yours you're not welcome here.

uncertainty.

in other words they'd do pretty much the same thing the Ottomans did whereever they ruled.
Enslave everyone who's not a muslim except those who could become dangerous to you (and kill those).

And worse, according the the Q'uran that's exactly what every good muslim should do...

it would cost you nothing.
An email to the importer/manufacturer to get a warranty return approval.
And after that probably a trip to the store you bought it to get a new unit (the same trip you'd take anyway to get that new one ;)).

which shows just how ineffective you are at warfare. They surrender all the time and still you don't rule the place :)

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

tough luck kid. If you can't do the job it's time to come clean to your boss and tell him you lied about your capabilities when you applied for the job.

and most of all: security

Unless you work for a bank or creditcard company and in the department responsible for such software the best thing to do is to simply forget about it.

Return it to the manufacturer and claim it to be faulty.

Depending on how it got damaged and what brand it is that may well be the smart thing.
Those things are (for the better brands like Sandisk) designed to be pretty much indestructible and some brands (again like Sandisk) for that reason offer lifetime unlimited warranty on them.

Sure kids rise above their parents but it's a very slow process.
Once you reach a certain point your parents' lower intellect will hold you back, as they're your primary role model while growing up.
Other kids at school don't help either. In the current school system on both sides of the Atlantic academic achievement is actually discouraged by giving overly much attention to physical achievements. Instead of math and physics kids are taught to be dieticians to "combat the obesity epidemic". Kids who are good at sports are lauded as the heroes of the classroom, kids who are good at science are ridiculed as "teachers' pets" and bullied constantly to "bring them down a notch", all with the full knowledge and tacit approval of their schools (I know, I was the target of that for over a decade, for a while deliberately scored lower than I could on tests in order to escape the worst of it).
Of course kids of all races and creeds have that problem, but if your parents were once the bullies themselves they're not going to have any sympathy for you (they may in fact side with the bullies, not wanting their kids to be smarter than themselves).

Well a bunch of farmers and poorly trained army men beat the most powerful army in the world to gain independence (American Revolution) so I am sure it is possible.

well, they had some things going for them...
- The British supply lines were extremely long and overstretched.
- The British were at war at the time with France (among others) so couldn't send all the troops they would normally have been able to send).
- Communications were rather slow. Sending a request for reinforcements took weeks to arrive in London, the reinforcements themselves weeks more to cross the Atlantic by which time it was usually too late.

The forces opposing Iran right now don't have most of those problems.
Supply lines for the US are long, but reinforcements and supplies can now be airlifted and be in theater within 24 hours rather than a month or so.
The US is already in theater in force, having considerable forces on both the east and west borders of Iran, plus a fleet blocking Iran's only access to the open ocean.
To the north Iran is bordered by Turkey and Russia, not exactly friends of the Ayatollahs either.

He was a very pro-union and pro-working class labour MP back in the past though.

like I said, out of touch with reality...
Unions are definitely NOT pro-working class, and politicians who say they are aren't either almost by definition.
Think Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Chavez, Mugabe.

technically it's neither undefined nor infinity, but approaches infinity asymptotically.
Infinity in that regard is actually well defined in terms of Aleph 0.

I would bet that people who score higher on IQ tests are also the ones that think it means something important.

mostly not. As with most such things the people who do best at them are often the ones who realist how pointless they are because they recognise the futility and gaps in the testing the best.

The study that showed racial differences in the outcome of IQ testing was actually genuine.
The outrage about it was not based on its scientific merits but on the conclusions, which were not politically acceptable.

Whether the study was performed correctly and the results interpreted correctly never even came im Frage, the very fact that the study was performed and had that outcome was considered wrong and therefore the study had to be suppressed.

As AD says, there's a cultural thing involved here.
Just as with girls of a certain age doing better overall in school than their male peers because of their attitude towards school and study, the same may well be true for different racial groups as well.
But unless and until studies are performed and the results verified independently and published without political bias towards a specific outcome, we'll never know.
What I do know from personal experience is that as I went further up the educational ladder I saw the racial and sexual mix change drastically and become ever more homogeneously Caucasian male (male because of the topic of study I engaged in, other topics at the same level were predominantly female but all were mostly Caucasian).
That said, the black and (especially) Asian students we did have performed on the most part admirably, often better than their Caucasian peers.
To give some numbers: in my yeargroup at university there were 2 women, and 1 black guy in …

generally yes, but the system will run at the lowest speed allowed by your modules (so at the speed of the slowest module) and you may have to enforce that through a BIOS setting for it to work at all.

meep meep...

what do you think drove those programmers mad?

btw, I never told you you can't visit those sites. All I told you is that it's not our business to help you do things which your school has told you not to...

So go play with yourself in the lockerroom as a substitute for not being able to visit those pr0n sites during lunchbreaks and stop bothering us.

I've seen a lot of mad software. Without more precise specifications it's rather pointless to even try to help you out.

won't be long now before it does help, what with the way the dollar is sinking :)

instances of the decorator are assigned at runtime. When performing actions the action method from each decorator is executed, and only those that recognise the actual command will do anything.

Similarly each decorator can also provide (through other methods of course) information for skill distribution screens, character description, etc. etc., all depending on the interface definition you decide upon.

A standard phrase in modern OO programming is "composition over inheritance", which is what decorator (and similar) patterns provide.
Of course you may use inheritance in designing your decorators, but your tree will be far flatter and you will not have to mix functionality into other hierarchies that really doesn't belong there.

"why kiddos can't think for themselves"
"why kiddos are too lazy to do their own homework"
"why I spend all my time playing games instead of studying"

public class YouFail {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       System.out.println("brightstar fails, is didn't turn in its homework so has no grades");
    }
}

There you go.