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Teh Go0rfmeister
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when this comes up in an irc convo:

Quote: "[17:02] <El_Goorf> 1 day left...
[17:02] <El_Goorf> then ts the 2 month countdown to the end ofthe world
[17:02] <[0_x]> according to my calculations 14 days 6 hours and 57 minutes
[17:02] <El_Goorf> + a few days
[17:02] <El_Goorf> 14 days?
[17:02] <El_Goorf> cool
[17:03] <El_Goorf> means something pre-emptives gonna happen
[17:03] <Mikey> ..What?
[17:03] <Mikey> Worlds ending 'again'?
[17:04] <El_Goorf> yep
[17:04] <Mikey> What is it this time?
[17:04] <El_Goorf> and then i and a random "nice girl" from my school will immerge from a bunker and then start up our own race of super humans
[17:04] <El_Goorf> mikey> presidential elections
[17:04] <Mikey> LOL
[17:05] <[0_x]> oh, I was talking about hl2 being released "


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Mr Underhill
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@Ion Stream: If you don't mind, I'd like to use your quote as my sig. I think it's funny, but if it's embarrassing I'll change it. OK?

Quote: "A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1028.
I mean.... not.. that i.... new that already.... i figured... maybe... CRUD! IM A NERD! -Ion Stream"
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When you start to admire the resolution and modelling of objects in real life and get astounded by the shader effects on real water!

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Quote: "@Ion Stream: If you don't mind, I'd like to use your quote as my sig. I think it's funny, but if it's embarrassing I'll change it. OK?"



how..... flattering.....


You have my permission!

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Manticore Night
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Quote: "when you correct your programing teachers code."
I did that to day.

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The Real 87
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Quote: "Quote: "when you correct your programing teachers code."
I did that to day."


Ya, When I was in C++ Class I corrected is code all the time.

This is my counting program

do: print "87" : loop
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*Your goal in life is to program a Virtual World where you can reign supreme.

That's me!

Here's my forums www.andrewtamalunas.proboards28.com . Please join!

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The Real 87
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you know you're addicted to coding when you tell your math teacher that the only numbers that matter to you are 1 and 0.

This is my counting program

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 08:18 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2004 08:18
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You're pressing CTRL+S every 5 minutes, in every application..
Thats an obsession.
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That's just Microsoft.

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Mx5 kris
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You know you are a programmer when you wonder how the physics in real life are so good, and wonder why you can not just restart your life.....


if your brain to you is just a microprocessing unit with raid capibillities, then you might be addictide.

if you can program better than you can spell, then you might be addicited.

if your printer is mainly used to print out binary instead of porn, you might be addictid.

if you begin long talks with do
and then say print ""
and then go if son_agree=1
exit
else
get_mad
endif
then you might be addicted

if your brain can't store as much info as your pc, then you might be addicted

if your graphics suck, but you can load all of those graphics with your own dll that akes loading them 2 words only, then you might be addicted.



As you can tell, I am addicted.

This is only the beggining...
The end is ony the beggining...
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Quote: "°Your mother phoned you to see if you were still alive, and you responded "ping"."


HAHAHHA thats GREAT

What about, You know you're addicted when you're drawing concept sketches for your main game character and designing a city when you're done taking a test

Lol, I definetly did that. Stupid English teacher.

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The Real 87
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Quote: "You know you're addicted when you're drawing concept sketches for your main game character and designing a city when you're done taking a test "


Or how about this that I really did. I was taking a math test (worth like 25% of my grade) and I dazed off and forgot about the test and started writing out a code on it. Turned it in and got a 0.

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lol

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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Quote: "You're pressing CTRL+S every 5 minutes, in every application.."


Not only do I press control+s every few minutes, but now I have a habit of going to the folder where the file is saved and I make a backup copy of it.
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Mx5 kris
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anyone one mine????!?!?!?!? lol...

This is only the beggining...
The end is ony the beggining...
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Quote: "When you correct your programing teachers code."

I remember that in Delphi, but I have to admit that the teacher was not formed for computing sciences, he was a doctor for nuclear physics. So I don't care.
But at the exam, I made a slight error in my program, it took us 3 hours to find it out (I replaced a 1 with a l), so it's draw.

Quote: "Your goal in life is to program a Virtual World where you can reign supreme."

Virtual ? pfff ... pathetic little worms !

And yes, I often think how I could code things I see in real life.

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Quote: "And yes, I often think how I could code things I see in real life."
Me too, like ....chicks!

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Quote: "Me too, like ....chicks!"


Maybe you know the movie "weird sciences"

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yep, like that one.

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The Real 87
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Quote: "Maybe you know the movie "weird sciences""


That was a crappy movie. w/e

(I don't want a flame war so I am going to leave it alone at that)


i once tried to program a text virtual human, but I decided that I don;t know enough about the Human phycy to do so.

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That's easy.



Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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I ment something that reall was human like, not random.......

SHHH...

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Yeah, but that is real and human-like because of how common the phrases are. You could always use.... google...

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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Why use all the if statements? Why not just use one case statement like so?

to my understanding, however limited it may be, case statements run faster than multiple if statements.

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Using dim(10) and data statements would be far more efficiant.

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You know you're on a programming forum when the above happens
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You know you're addicted to programming when you program complex routines after a long day at work...

that was probably mentioned

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When you actually stop checking the apollo Forums to start coding

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heh when I have time for a coding session I close most of the things running

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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but could you, Scraggle, give me an example of what you mean. I am always trying to improve my ability to code, and optimizing code is a subject that intrigues me.

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Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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Quote: "Using dim(10) and data statements would be far more efficiant."


Data statements suck.

Isn't it? Wasn't it? Marvellous!
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i have both the habit of pressing ctrl+f5 and if im looking for a file my mind wanders off and i awake in the dbp projects folder.

and after a good game of bf1942 i always press k(standard message key) before i send someone a message in msn.

and yes data statements suck!


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u know yr a programmer when yr computer has more gb of hdd than u have braincells(from caffiene and banging head against things)

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You don't have much memory in your brain.

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Quote: "You don't have much memory in your brain."


Maybe you don't...

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@Bolt & Ilya:
Now-now, let's not get into a flame war here. We're all civil, or at least I hope so .

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Quote: "Maybe you don't... "

Stuff you don't use gets compressed and the unimportant parts deleted.
Unimportant stuff gets deleted.
Your brain probably holds less than a few gigabytes of data due to the fact that most data is faint and the important data(speech/hearing, writing/reading, math) probably are a megabyte each. Your critical data (heart rate, breathing, ect) can't total up to over a few megabytes. Instruction on how to control/recieve input from your body are probably less than 10 megabytes.

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u know when yr a programmer when u compare your brain to a hdd

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You know when you put 404 in your name and host a server.

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LOL! You little sh!t face! DIE!!!!!(j/k, ya little terd!)

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caffine kills braincells?

I had no idea.

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Quote: "Stuff you don't use gets compressed and the unimportant parts deleted.
Unimportant stuff gets deleted.
Your brain probably holds less than a few gigabytes of data due to the fact that most data is faint and the important data(speech/hearing, writing/reading, math) probably are a megabyte each. Your critical data (heart rate, breathing, ect) can't total up to over a few megabytes. Instruction on how to control/recieve input from your body are probably less than 10 megabytes."


there is so much stuff stored in your brain you wouldn't believe it. You CANNOT 'delete' stuff because that is the way the brain works (don't know enough to explain) but the neuron[e] pathways are formed to make memories etc. Again I don't fully understand but the memories you use most have more 'defined' pathways etc

Quote: " caffine kills braincells?"

loads of stuff kills braincells, being alive for one...

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You don't delete stuff in hard drives either. By delete, I mean cause to be inaccessable or overwrite.

And
Quote: "And to look at a third measure, how much does human memory hold? Tom Landauer tried to estimate this some years ago and concluded that the brain held about 200 megabytes of information."

Source: http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ksg97/ksg.html
Google : http://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+space+in+brain&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Hmmm... is that maximum capacity of an avrage adult brian?
Still doubt your brain could hold more than a gigabyte.

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From the first site Ilya mentioned:

Quote: "Would it be hard to remember every word you heard in your lifetime, including the ones you forgot?"


Does that make any sense to anyone?

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Yes, would it be hard to remeber something you forgot?
For example, you hear someone say something, but you only remember some of it and forgot some of the important parts. Would it be hard to remember?
You remember someone saying something important, but you forgot the words. Would it be hard to remember?

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I think it is very possible to even remember things you didn't hear or study. At least no consciously hear and know you heard it or just glance at and not really look at it. I was in english class when they done a memory test. The teacher put a 21 digit number on the board and gave everyone 2 mins to study the number and after that she erased it and called on students to see who remembered it 10 mins later. I was playing the student lottery and I have good short term memory so I didn't study it. I just glanced at it for a second. I was betting on her calling someone else first and I would remember what they said quickly and repeat it when called upon. To my surprise she called me first Even more to my surprise I knew the number and to this day still can't forget it. Though I very rarely use it. 194219189944575551212 I have done the same thing when someone was talking and I was doing something else. I was programming one day and my mother came in and said she just stopped by my house to let me know she was going out of town (I never answer the phone). Oddly enough I still don't remember her coming over or ever saying anything. My sister came over and asked if I knew where mom was and I told her. It wasn't until the next day that i knew how I even knew that. When she told me.

I think it would surprise everyone just how much your brain retains that we just don't know how to access. And you can't really compare memory storage in the brain to bytes in a computer. There are many ways to store data. How do you know it doesn't just take alot more memory to save simple stuff in the brain. Or the brain may store stuff alot more efficiently and use alot less space to store stuff.

I have an idea I am going to try one day when I learn C++ a bit better. Say you store every word in a library with a string for each word. Each string has its own address. When you save a file it looks up the words and copys the strings address (or array index depending if you want to use the file on multiple computers) in place of the string. An address takes up alot less space than an entire string. You could save huge text files in tiny files that act like a table of contents. It would take longer to open and close the file. The compressioon saved on really large files would be worth it though.

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I once learned in science that everything that has happened in our life is recorded in our brain, every sight,smell,touch,sound, and taste.

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Quote: "You don't delete stuff in hard drives either. By delete, I mean cause to be inaccessable or overwrite."

no, but you change it so it is unreadable, in the brain you just dont read it, but you can.

Quote: "I once learned in science that everything that has happened in our life is recorded in our brain, every sight,smell,touch,sound, and taste."


It is but people can't access it. For example if you sit down in a quite room and think of the things you did yesterday the smell should stick out on the occassions you can see. However, what I did yesterday was the same as all days so it is a big blur, except for a few things. It depends of the person but to have a memory at all you must 'save' everything.

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I know that this was a dead thread, but I had to let every one see this...

This is the folder where I put all my shortcuts so I can keep my desktop clean.

I use notpad for HTML and the rest are for DBP and C++ (which I am just starting to learn)

This is my counting program
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