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Posted 15 years ago2008-11-23 15:11:38 UTC
in Who will be the next superpower? Post #258984
Right now petrol is like 11 SEK per litre here;
11 (Swedish kronor per litre) = 4.91363105 U.S. dollars per US gallon

Google sure is nifty.

The economical capitals of the world are definitely moving east. But neither of the developing countries in Asia would hold their own without exporting massive amounts to Europe. What I think we'll see in the future is further globalisation, eg. equalisation (is that a word?) between developing countries and first world countries. We'll get poorer, they'll get richer.

As far as super powers go, India and China are probably going to work hard to aspire for the position of top Asian nation, alongside Japan. They're both space racing the way America and the Soviets did in the 60's, and the competition'll likely escalate.

Edit:
Really? Their only real problem is the noise being made over Tibet.
India's currently at conflict with Pakistan, another incredibly powerful nation. China has some troubles both with the Tibet situation as well as the Burmese dictatorship.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-22 07:16:39 UTC
in L4D Community Campaign Post #258889
I'm liking this.
Don't bite off more than you can chew, however - give yourself time to experiment with any additions to the SDK or Hammer before diving into making a full-length campaign.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-21 18:36:14 UTC
in Terminal Gmail Post #258867
Oh man. I am so terminal'd from now on.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-15 19:15:21 UTC
in L4D commands Post #258566
The Hunter's post covers most anything.

And I have not been able to play as infected - I suspect they patched it.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-14 13:09:51 UTC
in Left 4 Dead Post #258527
Thankyee, potatis_invalid. Fixed it by binding p to toggleconsole.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-14 12:21:31 UTC
in Left 4 Dead Post #258524
Here's a question for you: how do you enable the console on european keyboards? Neither "enable developer console" or -console in the launch options seems to do anything.

I've played it only with friends over skype, and yes, it is fun... for a while. I'm afraid this game'll get boring quite fast, not too sure I'll invest in it.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-13 13:38:16 UTC
in Left 4 Dead Post #258481
SHOTGUN.
AUTOSHOTGUN.

FUCK YEAH.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-04 13:29:15 UTC
in KOTOR Tips Post #258127
For an even softer introduction to RPGs, give the, also Bioware-developed, action-RPG Mass Effect a try. It's great.
Posted 15 years ago2008-11-04 13:27:03 UTC
in You Laugh You Lose - Revisited Post #258125
TERRIBLE YLYL IS TERRIBLE
I DIDN'T EVEN SMILE ONCE

FUCK

CRUISE CONTROL: ENGAGED
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I'm sorry, these aren't the best the best the best. If I could, I'd poast my entire /b/ folder, but I just don't want to. These I just pulled randomly off of ED and imagechan - hopefully, someone will laugh lose.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-31 10:36:49 UTC
in Your favorite Indie/Casual games! Post #257958
I'm kind of into Audiosurf recently.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-29 21:53:54 UTC
in Logo editor software? Post #257893
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-28 19:50:52 UTC
in Dam Virus!! Post #257836
The best way to not get viruses is to get a Mac smile - :)
Much like the best way to avoid disease is to kill yourself.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-23 15:58:47 UTC
in Games to look forward to... Post #257566
Downloading FC2. I figure anything's worth a download.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-23 13:04:10 UTC
in Games to look forward to... Post #257554
PS3
hahaha
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-23 09:36:26 UTC
in Games to look forward to... Post #257548
more quickly
hahaha
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-23 03:37:55 UTC
in Desktops of October Post #257535
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School computer.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-22 16:43:16 UTC
in Games to look forward to... Post #257506
I don't know what it is but I'm expecting Alan Wake to be a huge disappointment.
Isn't that quite oxymoronic?
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-21 05:52:40 UTC
in Desktops of October Post #257422
There're so many things that annoy me on your desktop I won't even list them.
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Posted 15 years ago2008-10-18 10:39:56 UTC
in Post Your Photos Post #257295
Black/white one wins.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-17 13:57:43 UTC
in Games to look forward to... Post #257264
PCG Sweden is quite excellent last time I checked on it. I've recently quit subscribing, but it's definitely the best PC Gaming magazine around.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-14 05:10:35 UTC
in Visual Basic Post #257031
Why Visual Basic? Learn a real programming language. If you really want to, there's a Wikibook for it.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-14 05:08:43 UTC
in Games to look forward to... Post #257030
Mirror's Edge, L4D, Starcraft II, Diablo 3 (although no promise they'll be out anytime soon), Far Cry 2.
Posted 15 years ago2008-10-11 14:38:21 UTC
in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Trailer! Post #256921
If Tito didn't poast moar general discussion would be all quiet. :3

Movies based on comics tend to suck a lot. However, games based on movies based on comics pull off the awesome feat of being even WORSE than their movie counterparts. tl;dr shit sucks.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-28 16:29:56 UTC
in Splinter Prize Fight Post #256286
Most kills in the two games combined or most kills in one game?
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-28 16:28:01 UTC
in Post Your Photos Post #256285
lol butterflies
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-28 06:51:30 UTC
in Simple CMS ? Post #256259
Drupal and Joomla are two of the most common community CMSes. Haven't used neither, so I can't comment on their quality, but they should be quite powerful.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-17 10:43:00 UTC
in Desktops of September Post #255549
FUCK YOU, FRACTALS

(Cool proggy, btw)
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-16 12:55:09 UTC
in Desktops of September Post #255518
I do know that Winamp is superb compared to the others i've tried (WMP, Itunes, MPClassic)
Foobar2000 > all for music.
For video, MPC isn't bad but I prefer VLC.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-15 11:38:28 UTC
in Google Chrome Post #255421
Um... Urbanebula:
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Posted 15 years ago2008-09-13 06:17:31 UTC
in Google Chrome Post #255290
After using Chrome for a few days, I must say I'm hooked. For my daily web browsing, I've completely switched to Chrome. The fast loading times, the non-existent RAM usage, the sexy GUI... Enough for me.

There's still a bunch of plugins from Firefox that I miss sorely, but for the daily dose of checking mail and reading RSS chrome does the job superbly.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-06 15:40:16 UTC
in Official Transformers 2 Set Video! Post #255014
Basically it's Armageddon/Independence Day/etc.- ie a big dumb disaster flick- with robots thrown on top of it.
Most apt summary of the film I've seen so far.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-06 06:35:15 UTC
in Official Transformers 2 Set Video! Post #255006
Good keyboards have the ? and ` key. Pok?mon.

Regarding Transformers, it's terrible. I wouldn't watch the sequel if it was free.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-03 15:02:09 UTC
in Google Chrome Post #254943
http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
And this is in the EULA of a browser.

And as for the Hunter, be quiet.
Posted 15 years ago2008-09-03 08:30:01 UTC
in Google Chrome Post #254927
I'm pretty much interested in whether I will have to do testing in yet another browser now. Probably not, since the rendering engine is Webkit, shared by many browsers. As an initiative, not really sure what to think about it. Does the market really need another browser? We've already got 3 major players competing (being Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple (sorry opera users, your market share is like 0.1%)) for the user base. We'll see.

As for a real alternative to Firefox, it really isn't and probably won't be, at least for me. There's a tonne of plugins I use constantly for Firefox that will at least not be available for Chrome for a while.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-31 14:48:00 UTC
in Getting ready for a big hurt.... Post #254806
Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) has been King of Sweden since 15 September 1973.
Only shitty things get named Gustaf...
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-31 12:54:34 UTC
in Getting ready for a big hurt.... Post #254799
New Orleans, officially the coolest American English dialect in the world. I feel sorry for them ;________;. NYOOORLANZ
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-30 13:23:41 UTC
in "Temple" for HLDM Post #254759
Sweet ol'e Blazeeer textures.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-26 03:07:57 UTC
in Daubeh's TF2 Server [Server closed] Post #254548
Very big kudos to both Daubster and Huntey. Great ideas, I'll hop on the servers pretty often.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-25 04:17:01 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254521
What does that have to do with anything?
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-24 17:10:43 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254490
Tito, your post illustrates a point against absolute browser conformity, but it is not an argument against site validity. Sure, there will never be a browser that conforms fully and only to the standards, because of old methods still being used. Of course the developers will want backwards compatibility.
This, however, is not an argument against using standards for web development. I mean, in all earnest, there's no reason not to follow standards - after all, they're put in place to create the optimal experience for as large an audience as possible.

Regarding the (apparently parallel) discussion about an ideal world, the term "ideal" is highly subjective and will probably differ greatly from person to person. As such, it is fairly unattainable.
Besides, animals are tasty.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-24 06:48:44 UTC
in Computer is Skipping? Post #254447
f2k > winamp > wmp
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-24 06:47:40 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254446
potatis, you need to chill the fuck out yo.

Everything would be much easier if everyone followed web standards. That goes for both browsers and web developers. It would indeed cut development times for new websites as well as new browsers. The web would likely be a bigger place where creating content was easier.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-23 11:01:41 UTC
in Huntey's CSS server Post #254376
CET is the real Europe clock. GMT is old and crappy. :)
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-23 05:30:10 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254370
Whatever happened to judging a website for what it is about, rather than for what's the source code like?
I judge a website for how it will be experienced by its users over a variety of platforms and user agents :) . You seem to have completely missed my point about the W3 accessibility recommendations (3.), which in my opinion is the most solid reason for using semantic, well-formed markup.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-22 18:13:03 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254349
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-22 15:41:17 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254314
They have the internet's best forum dedicated to web development, you should join it like I have, check it out: http://www.programmingtalk.com/
Considering that website you posted earlier does not seem to be a joke, I'm not sure I want to. The best advice available on (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, etc. etc. you can find online is available live on freenode, the best IRC network ever. :P
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-22 12:24:14 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254297
What's remarkable with TWHL is that unlike the majority of all community sites, it's not a template. The forums are all hand-coded, first by atom, then recoded by our favourite Penguinboy with able assistance from Strideh and Ant - and they've done a god job doing it. Nigh-compliant (yes, there's still some invalidity :) ) HTML, clean and easy-on-the-eyes design and solid PHP work. Even some AJAX detail work as icing on the cake.

Seriously, how often have you seen a non-template forum system? Snarkpit, and the NS site linked earlier, both have pre-built forum systems.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-21 17:13:55 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254255
Look at this site and think.
Not very impressive. Pretty unreadable and foremost generic theme. The TWHL3 theme is nice, in my opinion and a ton better than TWHL2 and previous. At least the TWHL3 theme isn't an ugly generic forum template.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-21 12:00:30 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254237
IE version 8 is schedule to come out soon
A very vague "soon". The IE8 release is still probably aeons away. And even when it's released, it will be aeons still until people have moved over to IE8. The majority of web users are still using IE6.

Still, it's nice that MS is choosing to actually follow web standards for once - "Standards mode", as it has been named, will be the default setting for IE8.
Posted 15 years ago2008-08-21 09:38:59 UTC
in Other mapping sites look shit . Why ? Post #254230
Regarding XHTML, using it unless you intend to send it as its proper form (eg. application/xhtml+xml) is pointless and will make the browser parse it as HTML. Of course, IE can't even parse application/xhtml+xml at all. Conclusion: don't use XHTML (yet). Kind of off-topic, I just felt the need to inform.

On web-standards and validity I agree completely with PB. Tito has a point about exaggerated validity-obsession, but in web design, standards often help make the site more compatible - in all browsers but IE. The common process is to develop a site using strict web standards and then fix it for IE.
Most importantly of all is accessibility - the web standards recommend and somewhat enforce the site to be accessible by disabled users (using screen readers etc.), something all web developers should strive for.