Northeast
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Well, I got my doctorate while also learning the intricacies of Dromed, so it shouldn't be impossible.
True. I'll only know if I have no time to shower more than once a month when I start in the fall. Committing now is not a good idea. (Especially to a woman and especially if I don't have time to shower often.)
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So long as the modability (moddability?) of this game is at least as strong as with Oblivion, I'll be happy with the PC release. If they gimp that, and I have read no indication that they have, they might just have to cure cancer (by people playing the game) for me to regain interest.
Also, go buy a gamepad. Don't be scared. It's an input device just like the keyboard and mouse your using right now. Rest easy in the knowledge that for games where keyboard and mouse support is lack luster, the gamepad works out of the box.A gamepad makes sense for this game only if one's exclusively using third-person view. The digital input of the WASD keys make the dual-analog sticks (one for camera, one for movement) the better option for third-person. Since the mouse handles both aspects in first-person, and with greater precision, KB/M is much better.
Of course, experience with the Witcher 2 using gamepads has been lacklustre compared to using a keyboard and mouse. The problem being on the developer's end though...
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I considered joining this project, but ultimately I don't think the first thing I should do is join up with a campaign. Even a campaign by novices. I have the summer to put something out, then I embark on a journey that may end with me getting a doctorate; come the fall, I want to minimize the conflicting obligations. On my own, I can shelve it for X years or abandon it completely, work on it just as a means of stress relief.
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Currently I can now rotate correctly around the axis, but not copmpletely free. If you are looking along the Z axis with the current code, and then try to rotate left/right, it is rotating around the Z axis still instead of the X or Y axis as it should. It means that I have to transform the rotation accordingly so that it is always rotated relative to the screen instead relative to the object as it is now. At least the annoying flipping effect is now gone.
OK, I don't quite know what your rotation code looks like, but this could be solved by using the appropriate rotation matrix. (I can't quite visualise what's going on here, since some of the phrasing is confusing and I can't be bothered to find a codec to work with that video.)
The equation does have to change if you want to rotate along different fixed axes. In Matlab matrix notation (where semicolons start new lines in a matrix)...
Rx(ang1) = [1, 0, 0 ; 0, cos(ang1), -sin(ang1) ; 0, sin(ang1), cos(ang1)]
Ry(ang2) = [cos(ang2), 0, sin(ang2) ; 0, 1, 0 ; -sin(ang2), 0, cos(ang2)]
Rz(ang3) = [cos(ang3), -sin(ang3), 0 ; sin(ang3), cos(ang3), 0 ; 0, 0, 1]
Again, I don't know what your code looks like, so I don't know if this helps. But it sounds like you think you need to rotate around a different axis, and these do that. There is also a formula (I sort of remember) for rotation about a general axis, but I don't think you want that.
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AI turn their heads to look around as they patrol, making sneaking around near them more difficult.
This could probably be answered if I knew more about how the D3 engine works, but... This AI routine isn't meant to be applied to all people, right? Meaning, nobles will be more oblivious while they are in their mansions, workers in their workshops etc. Only guards who are patrolling or standing guard will be naturally extra alert in this sense, yes?
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What? I had no idea, are you saying you don't get proportional representation? What do you get then? I thought you did in that parliment was made up of the % of whatever party it was or something.
Edit: Yes I am ignorant, so please inform me thx
We have a parliamentary system. There are little districts by which we divide our country. We call these "ridings". In each riding, candidates register (doing whatever is required) and they run to represent that riding. The person with the most votes after all ballots are counted wins the riding. (50+1)% isn't required, just more percentage than the other people who ran in that riding.
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This is done across the country. Parties run in as many ridings as they can (or wish to), and traditionally the party with the most seats in the House of Commons, whether they have over half of the seats (majority) or less than half (minority), forms the "government". However (in minority situations), any people, parties, whatever elected to the House of Commons can form a coalition after election and, if the coalition has a majority, they govern (even if the largest pre-coalition party is left out).
In a minority government (what Canada has now), the opposition parties (and independents) can block, pass, (create and pass), (practically) force amendments on legislation, since (50+1)% is needed in votes in the House of Commons for things to pass. Minority governments can be toppled too, and an election can be forced (if the opposition doesn't want to form a coalition and govern after toppling the government).
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Now, in any riding, all the votes that were cast for any other candidate other than the winner mean NOTHING. Even if the vast majority in the riding didn't vote for the winner, the person with the most votes wins. Every other opinion is effectively squelched. This is called a first-past-the-post voting system. It's simple, and works well in its own ways, mostly by allowing regional representation. Thus it can greatly amplify the power of regional parties. (Parties that try to or are thought to benefit one region of the country over others.) All areas of the country can get their problems heard federally, but regional parties can act against the interests of the rest of the country.
Take some region. 1/3 votes for a regional party, 2/3 divided by other parties. The regional party wins seats all across the region it tries to. But most of that region voted against the regional party. This can happen in a FPTP system. And even if it's a majority of a region, the votes for other parties are meaning less, people feel their voices aren't being heard. They are disenfranchised. Even without regional parties, people still feel ignored in a winner-takes-all style election. The popular vote doesn't necessarily match who sits in Parliament.
Canada doesn't need FPTP federally, we have HUGE provincial governments which can use FPTP to reap any benefits the system has. But federally, I think Canada needs proportional representation. It's a closer picture of what Canadians' want in government, and it allows for fresh ideas.
I believe I went overboard... Hope you understand a little more now.
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On a completly different note...If everyone seems to fislike the new Canadian government...who elected them? I'm just curious as to the other side, but everyone here seems to be against them. Is it the same sort of thing as the current American government?
Regional differences, East vs. West (Quebec in their own world). An urban vs. rural rift. People just wanting change, but still wanting the status quo, so we get a minority. People punishing the Liberals, holding their noses while they vote Conservative. The NDP getting more seats, and I think people voting NDP to spite the Liberals greatly helped the Cons. Things will blow over, but Canada is a fractured country and we need proportional representation to help ease the finger pointing and regional hatred.
*speaking as one of those bleeding-heart commie pinko soft-handed bankerboy Torontonian morons*
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Here's an angering article. Socially conservative US fuckballs are rejoicing now, thinking that Canada might 'see the light' in the future. Their arrogance in assuming they know best for Canada's social policies. Fuck them all if they expect us to become more "survival of the fittest" social Darwinians.
Canadians 'liberal and hedonistic' but can change, U.S. right-winger says
Fortunately, social conservatism doesn't fly in the vast majority of the country. I have to say, I think Alberta is the bastion of these values. The let-me-tell-you-how-to-live-lest-the-almighty-God-smite-your-ass type.
I think much of the CPC (I like to call them the Conservative Reform Alliance Party) support was people voting against the Liberals, buying into the idea that the party is corrupt. So all we need is a fresh-faced Liberal leader, and a party with renewed vision.
Edit: also, we need electoral reform.
Edit 2: what's with all the reports saying that the "west is in"? Are they only in if the Cons are in? How is Alberta supposed to dominate politically in the future, as I read as the election was going, when they only have 3 million people, compared to 12 million in just Ontario? Why do journalists feel the need to be prophets? I know it's for profits, but it was a rhetorical question anyway. Western Canada has always had a vote. They were always in. I can't believe people bought into this propaganda.
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I dont' drink coffee, I drink tea, and while it does have some caffine, it's too small an amount to affect a brain in any significant way. Fortunately I never have to take painkillers, though I'm not against their use if necessary. There's nothing wrong with taking specifically targeted drugs for a good reason. That sort of equivocation is pointess anyway, you know perfectly well I mean peurile recreational drug use.
Well, I wasn't really sure. It seemed you might have an opinion that altering one's mind with drugs of any form is a sign of weakness.
Do you use tea as a way to stay alert? Do you drink it every morning before you go to work? Are people who con't function without caffeine weak?
It the use and abuse of drugs for amusment, for a joke, in a totally flippant and careless way that's the problem. You can't be half-assed about your stance on recreational drug use, it has to be zero tolerance or nothing.I'm not half-assed. I think informed adults should be able to use any drugs they want without fear of judicial wrath.
Because while conscious, I'm always in complete control of my mind and my actions, and they aren't.I really don't see how that makes you superior. It certainly isn't a fact. It's your opinion that recreational drug-users are beneath you.
Weak-mindedness is the inabilty or refusal to face reality and to seek some bolt hole as an escape, like drugs that alter you perception of reality for a while, or religion, which states that this isn't really reality we're in, this is just a small test, and the real eternal reality commences after you die.Not everyone who drinks alcohol is trying to escape something. When I have a beer, I'm not fleeing the horrors of my past. Not drinking alcohol (or not using any mind-altering drug) doesn't mean that one is facing reality either, as you pointed out. I don't see "facing reality" and "taking drugs" as being mutually exclusive elements of one's life.
Video games are used to escape reality. Many books are read for escapism too. Many forms of recreation are used to take us out of the here and now. Many do use them to forget worries, but I wouldn't label them weak.
If someone has chronic pain, are they weak for wanting to escape their reality with a drug? If someone is taking drugs for depression? These seem more clear-cut cases where people are really wanting to escape reality. I don't think this necessarily means such people are weak.
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What I was pointing out, is that people who drink alcohol, or take any other drug, are weak-minded and inferior to people who don't. That's not my opinon, but a fact.
Was the study you are referencing commissioned by a muslim supremacist group? I can't see how you can make that claim with a straight e-face.
Do you drink coffee? Do you take pain-killers? Is there no drug that you use in your life? If not, what exactly makes you better than someone who does? What exactly is weak-minded? What are we trying to be strong against? Life?
Edit: Happy American Thanksgiving, by the way.
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Yeah, I have a story too. My next door neighbor died of alcohol.
People can die of many things from many things. It's all about moderation and responsibility.
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Well, they altered the definitions of the units in the Imperial system officially, but, as I understand it, it was because that's how they were being used.
I also meant it evolved since things like feet and inches have origins with cubits from Mesopotamia. The Egyptians adopted them, then the Greeks, then the Romans, then the Romans took them to Britain. They changed through the ages. The ratios between different units changed all the time.
Metric units (Si) were all defined to create international standards. The metre for instance... What is is again? The distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds. (Not quite light speed, and yes, I looked that up). And the second: the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
Since this was a western initiative, the decimal number system was used for simplicity. Of course, the decimal numbering system came from the fact that we have 10 fingers. But the use of the decimal system was still a definition.
It's something like, the Imperial system was millenia of tweaking, and the metric system was (not quite) a conference product.
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Yeah... Well... Do you really want to learn Russian?
Well, I have for years, but I don't even know the Russian alphabet, so I'll be like a child. You'd probably have better uses of your time.
Looking at the Russian alphabet, some if it is completely new, in shape, and some is deceptively similar. Though I know they aren't the same sounds. Or, I think they aren't...
First sentence - the one about circle Белова.Something about an army attacking a house with insurgents. The house may have teenagers who are hostages, or are the insurgents, it's not clear. Someone find a weapon in a case, and runs. This takes place in Белова.
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Personlay, I hate inch-yard system because it is hard to convert from one to another... I can't understand why everybody like it so much. First time I read "take 12 ounces of flour", I was completely lost. In fact, the abbreviations are horrible. OZ for ounces, and I'm not sure that is right, lbs for pounds...
Well, it's an older system. I think the Imperial system evolved, whereas the metric system was created for simplicity.
So please, what did the first sentence mean?Which sentence?
I didn't say anything about your Russian, Russian is much harder than English. Maybe I can teach you something basic. Should be fun, if we create a thread about that and stuff... You know the Russian alphabet?I've heard it's harder. But English is always a learning experience for everyone who speaks it. So many bloody words.
English is probably the easiest of the Germanic languages, but you can do so many fun things with it. German can be frightful at times.
Long story shortYeah, it's quite the thing, learning another language. It's a bit hard to immerse one's self, apart from French and English, here. One of the languages I'd like to learn (before I die) is Russian, but it seems quite the undertaking.
Oh, a little addition - my first meeting with English was Save/Load from Warcraft II...My first experience with Russian was the 10 ruble note that I was given years ago. It was printed in 1961. I cannot read a thing on it.
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"teenagers have run in circle Belova", "in the house in the case have run" - these sentences make sense?
Actually, these sentences became like that because I used certain words and word order on purpose. Would I write it in a nirmal way, it would translate perfectly.
I meant I don't expect much from an online translator. My experiences with Japanese and Chinese made me that way. The translation didn't make sense, but I have experience with funky word order, so I got the gist.
I don't translate anything in Russian ever. Except sweddish, german etc. Or is my English sounds like it came from a translator?No, no. You sound better than many native English speakers your age. Sometimes the Slavic-ness might slip out, but it's not really obvious. You do better than I with Russian, so who am I to judge?
The point you were trying to make could have been that you translate it, so I just thought I'd ask as a joke.
Thanks for the cm. I got them right...Google does conversions well enough.
I hate the Imperial system. Engineering in North America is plagued with it. Luckily the physics is mostly clean.
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В настоящее время областная армия нападала на белый дом многократно, и несколько под-ростков забежали в круг Белова, за ними же забежали боевики, нашедшие оружие в доме в шкафу...
Now the regional army attacked the white house repeatedly, and some teenagers have run in circle Белова, behind them the insurgents found the weapon in the house in a case have run...
Mostly understandable, or so I'd expect from an automatic translator. Certain words are mysteries, as always... Chinese and Japanese are more nightmarish when translating.
Are you saying that I used a strange grammatical structure? Or that you really just translate everything into Russian to read it?
I need a question answered now - how many centimeteers is 62 inches!? It's very important!157.48 cm
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Can you reverb your first paragraph please?
Why?
It's perfect the way it is. I was saying that you were being more innocuous than you thought you were.I didn't say my dad is a genius, he's a programmer, it just very hard to catch him on a question he cannot answer as long as it is somehow related to economy, physics, numbers, computers, biology, even history, programming, of course... Well, it's hard enough to find a question he doesn't know about at all if it is not too detailed.Sounds like a bright guy.
If a programmer is an idiot - he's probably not a real programmer. He's just making an ipression he is.I'm saying some programmers I've met are idiots. The job one has doesn't necessarily detail how smart one is as well as we'd like. *shrug* We're all ignorant in our own way, I suppose.
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You think too highly of your ability to insult. And you use enough disclaimers to disarm any verbal knives. Sparhawk shouldn't care about your careful insults.
Your dad may be a genius, but idiots walk among us in many forms and vocations. Though, I've been known to be harsh...
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Careful there, I'm armed with imtranslator, which translates a lot. Ich spreche nicht Russe, leider = I do not speak Russian, unfortunately.
I use freetranslation.com, though that is more useful for English-speakers. Your site seems more versatile, assuming it translates well.
I wouldn't insult someone in another (somewhat popular) language and expect to get away with it. No, no, I'd do that by way of a private message.
Translating your Russian message - "Can you show me the way to the toilet? Russian looks unreal, but it is sad that I don't know this." Yeah... Where did you get that from? Some stupid Russian grammar book?"Can you tell me the way to the toilet? Russian looks weird, it is sad I do not understand it." I'll take your word for it, since I'm sure read and write Russian better than some program.
I had a Russian controls professor. He was pretty funny, though sometimes seemed insane. His thick accent was a problem, at times. I don't know why I'm telling you this.
When you translated that, you were wrong at one place. "Придурок ястребиный" does not equal "sparrow hawk". It mean (forgive me, sparhawk), "the hawk-like fool". Or, придурок can mean anything from idiot to dumbhead. Again, I only wrote to test sparhawk's knowledge of Russian. That message didn't mean that I wanted to say that sparhawk is an idiot. Besides, no one in their right mind will say something like that about a programmer...That word must not be used enough to be included in some free online translator. The lurker in me had to make an assumption.
I know a few programmers who are idiots. Not in all things, but idiots nonetheless. Maybe you were sarcastic.
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N: I do not understand!!
F: It already ours with you of a problem. I too do not understand.
S: I wanted to say the same, but you beat me to it.
F: Also what I have told?
S: GOTCHA!
F: Придурок hawk... (I'm guessing that's sparrow hawk)
S: I don't understand a single word, but the font sure looks nice.
F:I imagine your reaction if you understood what that meant. That was a test actually. If you really understood Russian, there would have been some angry posts from you. Want a translation?
Me: Ich spreche nicht Russe, leider.
Me: Вы можете сказать мне путь к туалету? Русский выглядит сверхъестественным, но грустно, что я не знаю это.
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Dayton, OH. My dad CAN work because he is needed here as a programmer. But no one needs me cleaning streets because I'm not from here, so, basicaly, when I work in America, I take away jobs of the americans. It's quite stupid, but I need either visa like my dad has, and that requires a specialization, or college visa, and I'm not in college yet...
Why don't you find a job that pays under-the-table? There are lots of those around, if you look hard enough. Advertise for babysitting, house cleaning, paper delivery, whatever. Ask around in local shops. You'll probably get a terrible wage, unless it's a friend of the family hiring you, but it's money you didn't have before.
What do you think many of the illegal aliens do in the US? *tongue-in-cheek* Walmart doesn't have low prices for nothing.
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Bit of trivia - Thief 2 has a "walk forward slowly" button. This is totally independant from all the other movement speeds. I have it bound to X.
So if you hold Crouch, plus Creep, and then press "Walk forward slowly", you move so slow that you move across even metal with absolute silence!! I still am not sure wether they intended this compounding effect or if its actually an exploit.
But I agree with the "clok clok" sound the thief makes when he walks as if he's wearing hobnail boots - the point of that is to emulate the difficulty of actually being quiet in real life - in real life you have all sorts of things (mentioned before, clothes rustling etc) but in a video game its better to simplify this into something easily managable, like loud footsteps. So we need something like that there.
Oh, the clicking heels... When I started playing, I used to think the guards called me a tapper. Oh, the memories...
I don't think of that button combination as being an exploit. It takes so much patience to use it all the time. So much...
DarkRadiant 1.6.1 released
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Posted · Edited by Northeast
Hi. I installed 1.6.1 (64-bit edition) and have some odd behaviour that's inhibiting my ability to work on maps.
Dark Radiant appears to not render zooming or panning changes correctly for me. For instance, if I zoom in the orthoview (using, say, the mouse wheel) I get no response till I click on another panel in the program, then the orthoview refreshes. Has this been known to happen on some systems? I can move and objects around (and resize them) in the window with Dark Radiant displaying the changes "real time", but not the zooming or panning. It's far too frustrating to map like this...
This is the system I'm on:
i7 740QM
Geforce GTX 285M (1 GB)
6 GB RAM
Win 7 64-bit (obviously)
Actually, the panels don't necessarily render properly when I minimize then restore the program. The toolbars, buttons, etc. do, but not the graphical map areas.
Edit: found something on desktop composition... I'll try that. After I look up what that option does...
Edit the second: That did it, alright.