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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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Utility Programs in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, June 4 2007 01:37 Profile Homepage #7 What I find most amazing so far is the number of people that don't download their email locally, as well as that the lack of Opera hasn't yet caused any "Other" choices in the web browser. Also, what office suite am I missing? Let me guess; is it called "MacOffice" or "iOffice"? :P Edit: In that case, go with the music player. Some of the options are music only, and it's what I had in mind even though I said "media". Edit2: And there is an unexpected percentage of people who reject IM altogether. What other compression tool is there? At least there I was pretty sure I hit all the popular choices. [ Monday, June 04, 2007 01:41: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Utility Programs in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, June 4 2007 00:52 Profile Homepage #4 Argh! I was so sure I'd put it in. >_< Ironically, I listed Opera as a mail client. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Utility Programs in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, June 3 2007 21:39 Profile Homepage #0 There have been a number of polls about your favorite operating system or browser, but I'm curious about all the other little tools. There are a few programs installed on most computers - mail client, text editor, office suite (usually), programming IDE (well, for programmers), instant messenger... etc. But for each of these, there are several alternatives, and I'd like to know which of them is more popular. Edit: And YES, I know I'm missing tons of programs (I had to play the Mac ones by ear, and I have never used a media player on Linux). Go choose other and get over it. [ Sunday, June 03, 2007 21:41: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] Poll Information This poll contains 8 question(s). 45 user(s) have voted. You may not view the results of this poll without voting. function launch_voter () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=vote;pollid=aTvRuxtEEgUG"); return true; } // end launch_voter function launch_viewer () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=view;pollid=aTvRuxtEEgUG"); return true; } // end launch_viewer function launch_window (url) { preview = window.open( url, "preview", "width=550,height=300,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status,menubar=no,scrollbars,resizable,copyhistory=no" ); window.preview.focus(); return preview; } // end launch_window -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
SW sales poll in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, June 3 2007 18:39 Profile Homepage #5 The other one is as a beta tester. What's the third? -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
End of Days in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, June 3 2007 11:40 Profile Homepage #14 Piperbot already went through this forum last week, but will come back in 4 days when he's done with the others. At that point, PPP will always be less than twenty minutes behind. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
End of Days in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, June 3 2007 03:40 Profile Homepage #0 That is not dead which can eternal lie, but my fellow cultists, this forum will not be with us much longer. Farewell. :( -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
It is done. in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, June 2 2007 05:07 Profile Homepage #16 The robot is finished. It drives around on a table, hits walls and turns around, grabs cans and tries to move them to its home base. And in a week, it will fight and win! [ Saturday, June 02, 2007 05:08: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Reccomend other RPGs in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, June 2 2007 03:03 Profile Homepage #24 Pong is so an RPG! I remember many a fun late-night session, seeing my paddle develop character, personality and depth, and watching the dramatic tale of high fantasy unravel before me. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
HI! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, June 2 2007 02:57 Profile Homepage #11 Welcome. :) I believe this has served its purpose and also violated the length/post delay ratio. Look, a pretty picture. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Jeff on programming in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, June 1 2007 05:11 Profile Homepage #18 True dat. I just have some kind of irrational awe of computer programs using tactics, even if it's completely primitive. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Post here if you still play BoE in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, June 1 2007 02:50 Profile Homepage #21 I haven't been playing it much in the past year, but that is more because of lack of time for playing anything at all. I do still have BoE installed, and although I have a hundred scenarios still to play I'd welcome any new addition. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Jeff on programming in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, June 1 2007 02:24 Profile Homepage #16 quote: Originally written by Upon Fire: Space Invaders is practically a game programmers' rite of passage. Hello World, then Space Invaders. That's how it's done. —Alorael, who thinks Breakout is also on the list. Maybe Asteroids for the ambitious. Asteroids more ambitious than Space Invaders? Sure, you have to implement steering in two dimensions rather than one, and things like momentum and inertia. But on the other hand, floating rocks need no artificial intelligence. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 23:37 Profile Homepage #413 The latter, I'd say. Add to this that the translator didn't even bother to translate the name (it was just named "Reason"). But I guess "Vernunft" would have just sounded lame/dorky - and by choosing one of the meanings ("Argument"/"Vernunft") they would have had to destroy one of the puns anyway, because the original version plays on both meanings. If the translator really wanted to avoid English but keep the pun as well as a cool name, he might have gone for Latin and used "Ratio". But at least they didn't try to explain the pun (which occurs when one of the characters predicts the bad guys will "listen to the voice of reason"). It's lurking there beneath the translation, waiting for a bilingual reader to catch it. :) [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 23:40: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 19:47 Profile Homepage #411 Isn't something tautological being tautological not only tautological but also redundantly redundant to the point of redundance? Edit - Oh, to the original topic: I recently finished Snow Crash, borrowed from a coworker (you know, working on adjacent desks for nearly a year before finding out you both read Neal Stephenson, Douglas Adams and Userfriendly is weird). It was a bit strange - it was stylistically similar to Cryptonomicon, but unlike with some authors (say Dan Brown) the plot and setting are completely different and original. I will need to re-read it in English because I'm sure I missed some puns there that got mangled. Say, the super-railgun "Reason" being the "Ultima Ratio Regum" didn't work that well in German. [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 20:39: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Simplest Path in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 19:39 Profile Homepage #34 quote: It doesn't make one of us right or wrong, it just ensures that one of us(in this case me) has no chance at winning. Let's call it a draw? :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Jeff on programming in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 14:57 Profile Homepage #13 Vaporware? But I'm sure I've see--- Oh wait, never mind. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Why? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 12:23 Profile Homepage #12 quote: Originally written by Sarasaphilia: Jeff got pretty heated last time someone asked to be convinced about a SW game. His end response was "If you don't like it, don't buy it." You're remembering it wrongly, but that's okay because you weren't here when it happened. :P The "end response" was the beginning of the whole mess that had started out as a simple discussion. If you think Jeff was being heated when he said "Don't Buy Them" or made the above post, what do you think would happen if someone put this in a signature? quote: It's a mystery [...] why people buy them :P [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 19:44: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Simplest Path in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 10:08 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Viral memes Be she en nem a agi va lay me sha nu nu la ge agi mem ga agi sa sa sa ti vo nu be ra le ra de ka sa mu va na ka se ta vu li ba. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Jeff on programming in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 09:53 Profile Homepage #8 Owned? Unless aliens that reach the bottom of the field alive (without touching my ship) hurt me somehow (or the "laser pew pew" reloads really slowly or takes like 5 shots to take one down), I'm pretty sure I could get out of that wave with 3 ships left. [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:09: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Why? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 09:46 Profile Homepage #7 I have a three-years-old laptop that can with some difficulty run Google Earth smoothly (assuming it's the only program running). Myst IV has an uncomfortable lag and Second Life is basically a slide show. Anything beyond that is impossible to play - even Empire Earth. Why should I play something that gives me nausea when SW games are fun, intellectually challenging, and playable without lag on my PC? :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Jeff on programming in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 31 2007 00:45 Profile Homepage #1 quote: Of course they didn't teach this when I learned programming almost 30 years ago and it still doesn't seem to be. Huh? We were taught how to comment properly. We weren't taught about #define, because it doesn't exist in Java. We did, however, get drilled about using comprehensive variable and function names (neither too long nor too short) and error handling (which Java does do more conveniently). Our software engineering course covered pretty much all of this... Edit: But the labels on this picture really made me laugh. [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 03:48: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
OBoE in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 20:07 Profile Homepage #18 Okay, I think I get it. I also would guess that you spend more time pulling changes to keep your own repository in line with the rest, than pushing changes to the others. And if an SVN repository exists at the same time, there would effectively be a gatekeeper (or several) who pull changes from the other developers, review them and commit them to the central codebase. What defines an "upstream" repository? Is it defined by the system or does the term apply to any repository that pulls the changes from many other developers and acts as a kind of "local central"? This sounds new and a bit weird and somehow not likely to work, but I probably thought the same when I first heard of Linux. :P [ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 20:15: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project IV: A New Bot in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 14:47 Profile Homepage #26 I don't believe I have an idea what you are talking about. I'm willing to believe you do, though. --- Search function, really old. Search function, really new. It's not yet done, but it will in a few weeks, pending a refactoring of a lot of outdated code to better fit into the Drupal API. The only thing that works now is searching topics by title, so don't bother with the rest of the options. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Open source project startup in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 14:04 Profile Homepage #1 Edit: Never mind, I read it as if you were saying Stareye had made a SourceForge project already. [ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 14:18: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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