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People -> City. Problem solved.

For some reason this reminds me of Half-Life 2's story... Only in this case slow interwebs forced the population to move into cities LOL.

As for TWHL3... I think we need a better IRC bot...

Damn, dude, I almost spilled cereal all over my monitor!!!!
Alex, please remove this link ASAP...

Don't click fourthgen's link!

I have Delta Force 1/2/3 on a seemingly original CD, no idea how I got it though... I guess I could play.

Also:

Heroes III: Armageddon's Blade & Shadow of Death

I could get In The Wake Of Gods too. but I Have little wish doing so.

Since it was suggested over IRC I thought it'd be good to strart the list.
Those are my games:

Carmageddon 2
Heretic
Hexen
Hexen II
Ground Control
Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Outpost 2
Star Craft: Brood War
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne

No need to mention they're all leeched, right?...
Plese, make your lists, so we can play sometime.

PS: Credit for the title goes to fourthgen

Like OMG! I'd say you shouldn't have to worry, unless you're a criminal. Because, seriously, noone who has the proper access levels wont bother dataminig the intenet about you, unless he's looking for personal vendetta. And in this case atleast you'll know who he is (unless you don't remember the people you offend )

That hovering orb looks strikingly much like the one seen in "Sphere"... psychokinetics, anyone?

Main diagonal seem to be the one going all the way through the matrix (which is an array of chars, yah). The primary diagonal is the one going from top left to bottom right and the secondary is the other one. I'll try to stitch that code together.

PS: Any suggestions for input values for the first program that return diffirent than second item? I calcuated things on paper and all of the times the first or the second items where correct :/

EDIT:

Yeah, but... for storing xn in?

It's used to store the current item so we can use it to calculate the next one.

Uhm, what's "classic"?

I use XP, but only because most new stuff can't be used on older systems.

Macintosh sucks, this is beyond doubt or argument.
Windows 98 FTW.

Woah... That actually worked! It's pretty much like mine, only I tried some weird expressions like "(abs(a/x*x-1)<eps)==true" which totally qrong, I didn't needed the "true" thingie

Alex: 'x1' is a valid variable name

Thanks, BJ, if we ever meet I'll buy you a bottle of vodka

Now I just need the solution for the second task.

I've made a couple of changes to the example code (which was totally messed) and I've came up with this:

[quote]#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>

int main() {

double x,x1,eps,a;
cout<<"Input value for 'a': ";
cin>>a;
cout<<endl<<"Input value for 'eps': ";
cin>>eps;
cout<<endl<<"Working";
int n=1;
x=1;
if ( (abs(a/x*x-1)<eps)==true ) {
	cout<<endl<<"Item ID: "<<n<<endl<<"Item value: "<<x<<endl;
	return 0;
}
do {
	n++;
	x1=x;
	if ( n%10000==0 ) { cout<<"."; }
	x=(x1+a/x1)/2;
} while ( (abs(a/x*x-1)<eps)==false );
cout<<endl<<"Item ID: "<<n<<endl<<"Item value: "<<x<<endl;
return 0;

}[/quote]

I think TWHL doesn't allow indenting I certainly hope Alex will allow it in TWHL3.

It works, but I don't know if it's correct, because it's taking alot to find the correct item... We'll see about that later.

1.
Write a program, which displays the first item of the line:

for which the expression is true:

'a' and 'eps' are keyboard input values.

The first item is not going to be 1, because it has tobe the first one to comply with the expression, not just the first item.

What should I use for it, an array or something? Or maybe a function to generate each member and another one to check whether the expression is true and return the member ID and value... I don't know, maybe I should make a block scheme first (best results will be achieved with a genetic matrix, but I have little wish to make one for such a simple program).

For the second one I'd first liek to know what is a secondary main diagonal and then it'll be rather easy.

EDIT: My brother sent me this solution, but he said it wouldn't compile, I'm analyzing it now, no idea if it has mistakes yet:

[quote]#include<iostream.h>
#include<math.h>
int main()
{double x,z,eps,a;

cout<<"a=";
cin>>a;
cout<<"eps=";
cin>>eps;
z=1;
do{
z=1;
x=(z+a/z);
z=x;
if(abs(a/z+z-1)<eps);

}
while(1);
cout<<z;
return 0;}
while(1);[/quote]

I need the solution for two tasks, anyone with programming skills, please help!

1.
Write a program, which displays the first item of the line:
https://www.bfu.bg/materiali/pr/programirane_kz1_2006_files/image026.gif
for which the expression is true:
https://www.bfu.bg/materiali/pr/programirane_kz1_2006_files/image028.gif
'a' and 'eps' are keyboard input values.

2.
Given a quadratic (square?) matrix of strings with maximal lenght of 6, write a program, which checks whether a given string 's' can be found in the part above the secondary main diagonal of the matrix.

The programs have to be written in Borland C++. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appretiated.

Nuclear plants are considerably safer than they were back then and I see them as the only real way of providing energy for future generations, you couldn't cover the UK in enough wind farms to compete with the kind of energy nuclear plants can provide.

The energy output of fission plants is like 1% of the actuall output of the fission reaction. It's like using 100 litres of fuel to dig out and process just 1 liter of the same fuel. It's simply not feasable enough to power the world for a long period of time: 1) the oceans will gradually become warmer, melting the polar ice caps or moving the Gulfstream, resulting in effects similar to those seen in "The Day After Tomorrow" (for the UK, atleast, I doubt the whole northern hemisphere will freeze) 2) we wont be able to take into account all the resulting waste and soon will have to launch orbiting around the planet (or hurl it into the Sun).

For the last 200 years we've "milked" the expanding gases technology more than enough. We should concentrate on something else, fusion seems like a good idea, since electricity is produced directly, without the help of steam turbines.

Methane is explosive fuel that every living organism on Earth releases aplenty because of the processes of food digestion. You're all making a mistake by thinking of how to replace one fuel that's running low with another one that'll run out a little later. We should instead concentrate on fuels with theoretically unlimited supplies (sun, wind, water, etc.)

It takes 1 gallon of gas to make 1.3 gallons of corn-based ethanol, and you only get 2/3 the energy from it compared to gasoline. I've heard other bad things 'bout ethanol too, but can't remember them...

Ethanol can be distilled with electrical heaters instead of burning.

Simply put the ENTIRE human mechanical technology is based on the wrong methods - expanding gases. If you think about it technology hasn't moved a step away from steam engines - even the nuclear plants use the heat output to create steam and rotate conventional turbines, which are around for like 200 years. Humanity has only mastered it's methods of killing, aparently. So sad...

Killbox maps are fun when you play with least difficulty bots and are bored. I've had lots of fun with one of those...

Huge corps are evil by default, because the only way to get big nowadays is if you cheat. And when I say cheat, I mean bribe authorities to avoid sanction or to win a large deal without public competiotion and all the like. Global corporations actually could do alot good simply because they run the world and have nearly limitless powers, but why would they bother help? Actually when the average human doesn't bother what happens to this world why would the big players give a shit...

Simply put, the human race has become way too ignorant and is about to be taught a hard lesson in existence... the hard way.

With the current direction of events by the time oil runs out something else would've destroyed human kind.

But it's really a major problem, I mean the only place we can get oil from is Earth, because oil is the result of milions of years of biological life and we still haven't found such other planet.

I guess japanese car companies will come up with a great solution to the oil shortage. As for Europe, most people are using public transport already and it runs on electricity, so it wont be too much of a shock.

And the brethern american people... I smell some huge disturbance over there as they are not very likely to give up their firetruck-capacity cars easily.

If I were you I'd rather just shoot him... Just kidding

This thread has turned into a Usenet kind of conversation, don't you feel so? After discussing big-bad-americans went trough gays and now you're at religion I just don't see what else can be discussed... Interestign that only topics that might yeld flames seem to attract your attention

800 replies adn over 7000 views is like... huge! Maybe you should lay off for a while, atleast until you come up with a fresh topic (or one that hasn't been argued about for more than two months )

fourthgen: Do you know Einstein was a Christian? Thomas Edison, etc......

Do you know that Einstein was jewish? And he got offered the presidency of Israel? Guess not...

I dont think he is intimidated by God, just has a different way of thinking. But, you still dont say everyone who believes in God is dumb. By that logic, Millions of Muslims, Cathloics, Christians, Jews, Buddists (Faction that believes in a God, not the true buddists) ETC ETC are dumb. Thats a huge part of the population.

Uhm, I'm pretty sure that during those 15 pages we all reached the conclusion tha most of the population is dumb. I'm not saying religious guys are dumb by default, but if you actually belive that god loves you and takes care about everyone's actions you are either blind, selfish or stupid. Seriously, don't you think the universe has more important things to care about other then your puny character?

If you look at religion you'll see that at one point it all becomes bad. Look at islam right now. Then look at christianity 600 years ago. Notice any resemblance?

You hardly need a specific religion to have faith. Faith isn't something that can be gained by pledging yourself to someone's god, you either have it or not. If you think that being a member of a mass belief is going to give you faith you're so wrong. Mass beliefs are for the weakminded.

Do you honestly think they are more unhappy now than when we were not in Iraq?

Actually I do.
People went to vote because they thought they'd change something, but can hardly happen when both sides where american puppets.

Dont you think America would of siezed the oil and started pumping it to the US already?

They are trying to, but as you might guess with this terrorism it can't happen at such a large scale and that fast.

Seriously, why are we still arguing about something we argued about like a week ago?

You do relize that many great inventors and minds were christian right? Albert Einstein, thomas edison...

Just for the protocl... Einstein was jewish, that's why he emmigrated from Germany during WWII

Organised religion = main tool of satan incarnate for brainwashing people

You don't need an idiot peadophile telling you what to do and what to believe in, you gotta understand and discover a faith of yourself. Otherwise you're either weak-minded or and idiot. Therefore, religion should be banned until a person makes 18 and is able to make decision on his own, and not thauhgt in schools.

Lol... Joba's stuck in sarcastic mode and can't shake it Newton actually WAS wrong. Read Einstein's theory and you'll know why.

http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/

And, no, G-man isn't related to Freeman in any way. This just shoes how lazy VALVe actually are.

PS: When I first played the game I never made a big deal out of the main character not saying a damn word - I thought that he actually talks to the people he gets to follow him but the creators didn't put sound to state the obvious. Then in HL2 they didn't added voice because it was going to change the personality of Gordon. Well, HL2 wasn't considered in the first place, so it's normal to carry errors made in the original game.

A theory says that a mysterious dark energy, also called "antigravity" is inside the gallaxies and absorbes the gravity from the other galaxies and makes the galaxy accelerate away from the other galaxies.

Einstein figgured out an easy way to explain gravity, and I will use it in this text too.

Einstein didn't found a way to explain gravity fields, HE DISPROVED THEM. In his theories, gravity force was an imaginative force, created by human scientists because they had no other way to explain it. What really happens is mass curving the space-time, which causes objects to "slide" toward each other, like in your example. That's the theory behind gravity drives and faster-than-light travel. So antigravity energy inside galaxies is just another way for scientists to escuse their lack of actually accurate formulae.

PS: It's just a theory, just like anything else, so don't get offended by it.

Dude, stop saying 'architexture', it kinda insults my suject at school
As for F.E.A.R... haven't tried it yet, and I doubt I will, after what you've posted... too busy anyway. Looks sweet, BTW.

Simple script without all the additional useless extras like tabs. I love opening them into seperate windows and I have been this way since I used the WWW.

Which mean you open a totally new browser everytime you click a link which is much slower tham waiting, say, 5 seconds for a tabbed browser to start up? That's ridicilus, even if IE started for a split second it would again be overally slower than any browser with tabbed functionality.

besides, John Kerry, the man running against Bush, Really had no idea about foreign policy.

If I recall properly, Jahzel said Bush and Kerry were both sides of the same coin... I guess he meant things were arragned or something, dunno exactly. I'm not going to comment on it, cause it's all kinda illuminaty'n'stuff and I don't have any real facts, other than Jahzel's word.

^^ sarcasm up there ^^

Didn't noticed the other posts before replying:D Anyway, it's still valid. And actually Jahzel said some valid things. But look at him now, he's probably prospering, so I guess he wasn't insane at all.

Criticising is one thing, taking measures is a milion miles from it. We have the damn facts in front of us, don't tell us we don't understand. There were elections after the war started and Bush got reelected. You say only dumb people voted, well, this is another prove that you don't give a damn or are too lazy to care.

Calling me unintelligent? I'm just trying to keep it at your level.

It should, however be noted that there is a definate culture of enforced stupidity amongst lower classes

Now we're talking. You made one of the most correct points here. Imagine what it would be if everyone was smart and had enough material resources to go along with his life normaly: no one could'ave been manipulated by the mass-media, governments weren't gonna be winning elections with deception, large corporations wouldn't be so arrogant because everyone would be realising the situation and would be thinking of the logical consequences of one's actions. Also, if there were no poor people there wouldn't be shitty payed jobs and also noone would be buying from TV shopping either... And many other things too.

I think its sad that I could go to the other side of my country and find "clones" of other peoples persona's. They all act the same, and make the wrong decisions

Yeah, I have the same feeling too... pretty weird, theoretically there are about 9 billion DNA combinations and yet, people are so simillar. I guess everyone tries to be cool and doesn't care about uniqness...

Saying people here go along with everything is SO FALSE. So much people here hate the war, and BUsh

Yet you are still at war and area bout to enter another war (with Iran), therefor the majority of the people actually WOULD go along with anything. Check out Spain and France for example - the spanish have overthrown their goevernment because of the war in Iraq and in France people are actually caring about their future, they are arranging great demonstrations against bad laws and are even rioting.

Our country has become too proud for our own good, when the fact of the matter is that we are actually a country in decline

Totally true, this guy is really telling the truth. Take a look around you and see if you really are that great and awesome. And I'm talking about watching heroicaly themed movies about how the good americans beat evil nazis, soviets or arabs but actually looking after some facts.

m too tired to read this thread anymore, can someone close it as it will NEVER EVER END, can we just agree that a lot of people here are british and some people are american and the post title 'dunce americans' is rather racist and stereotypical.

We can agree on that, but why close the thread? We've finally went over the flames and are actually discussing something with valid arguments.

Acctauly, ive come up with the theory that if everyone had a gun, and everyone else knew that everyone else had a gun, then there'd be no crime :>

No, that's totaly wrong, because people are generally stupid (I say ALL people here, not just americans) and will rather believe they can get away with it. It's not like holding nuclear arsenal and the theory of MAD (mutually assured destruction, yes, fits the abreviation very logically) where the mistake of one leads to the deaths of everyone else (including the guy who shoots).

I have something more to say about US society too. Your inability (or unwillingness?) to care about the outside world and others actions has made you the perfect swarm intelligence society: everyone is doing what he's told, without questionning their leaders why are they doing it. The lack of questions by the majority of the population makes everything pretty damn organised and effective. But there drawbacks too, and they are obvious. Ever heard a mechanic ask an engineer why he's supposed to construct the engine this specific way? Well, ofcourse not, but this increases the chance of failure by a lot - if the mechanic has no idea why he's doing something exactly the specified way he can't now if anything went wrong. While if he knows that this gear here operates that thing over there to result in this particular effect he can care about more then just the given blueprints.

Generations have made you the perfect tool in the hands of your leaders and this is not good for you at all. Better than brain implants, you carry a genetic burdain, only the most obedient have progressed and preserved their legacy.

I know it might sound a bit overexaggerated but it's true. Just take a look at how everything is functioning and you'll se what I mean.

/me hears lots of americans complaining about their technological supperiority over China

But I'll just let any yankee try and defend this position (if you don't support this position just say so, then I'll be wrong about my expectations)

This thread has gotten warmer... I like

BrattyLord, people don't reply to your post because your comments are just repeating what have been said so far with diffirent words. And your arguments are also not entirely proven. Infact, most of them are actually what the US is being blamed for the most. Here, I comment on your post:

Its called protection. Besides, guns make for good sport. Pretty much, the second Amendment (The right to bear arms) was created in order to provide a way for people to protect themselves from crime, and as a backup if ever we were invaded.

Oh noes, in the UK even cops don't wear firearms and there's people getting killed on the streets everyday!! Oh wait... no, because no one is "gangsta" as somebody already said and weapon limitation laws actually work.

Time that I contribute my mite to this thread.

It's the americans who make the generalisation about themself. Simply because noone there gives a damn what's going on in the outside world as long as it doesn't affect his life negatively you are letting the stupid people represent your entire country, it's you fault, not ours. Why do I see people complaining about americans not being stupid only in weblogs and forums? Why isn't the media trying to change the general idea but infact is doing exactly the opposite thing? Maybe it's time for you to think about what other people think about you and your country and start taking measures for bad opinions to change and not just yell at people who say amreicans are dumbarses.

About all this war on 'terrorism', economy'n'stuff, I'm not going to comment, as it is not going anywhere. I'd rather let others, who have more arguments on the topic, comment.

Damn, where's a Jahzel when you need one... I guess he's going to be the only guy from TWHL who actually made something usefull with his life

Heh, System Restore is one of the few (if not the only) good improvements from Windows 9* series. It can save your system if you manage to run it in time (and you happen to have a recent save point, which easily accomplished by automated saving).

Formatting is always the best choise, it makes your computer run really fast and if you don't have any sensitive data this should be done quite often (it has been so long since my last format because my brother keeps yapping about how difficult it is to put stuff on CD's).

This guy is surely going to win. I guess his girlfriend didn't expected such approach, but since everything is black-on-white now she has no way of calling it back

PS: She doesn't look good :/

Last time HDD was formatted: 15 months ago
Infestations battled: Countless
Current PC health: satisfactory (considering there hasn't been a defragmentaion ever since I formatted it )
Antivirus software used: None.

That's right, you don't need antivirus software at all. I used to have Norton Antivirus for some time (the only reason is because I got 3 months free when I bought my mobo) and it made my machine really slow. I tried deleting it but one service remained and it blocked ALL new software trying to connect to the internet. Luckily, I found a working unistaller which whiped it out and now I'm totally fine, whitout any protection.

I simply don't visit any suspicius sites and whenever I notice something strange I run Process Explorer (great free software, must have when you battle infestations) and terminate any unwanted activity. If this doesn't help I use System Restore, and in case it has been disabled by the virus I can always format my HDD. (valuable data can be evacuated, since viruses only affect executables and DLLs)

[Quote]Your name alone strikes fear into others; but maybe, just maybe, there's a little vulnerability and weakness beneath that stoic, fierce exterior of yours.[/Quote]

Fuck Yeah!

PS: I remeber I guy over from the Collective with a nickname The Wolf. Last time I saw him (something like 18 months ago) he had The Wolf picture as his avatar.

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/media/2/20051025-APHRODITE_DET.jpg
Phuck Yeah!

@Strider: When I saw this poor kitty I laugher for like 5 minutes and when tears started coming out of my eyes I decided to go out and take a walk otherwise I risked injuring my jaw or dieing of dehydratation

All in all Opera and Firefox have almost identical features, so it's up to the user which one they'll preffer. As long as it's not cursed IE it's fine for me.

The first FPS I've ever played was Heretic and it was somehow thrilling. Especially those areas where you pick up a key in a small room and it suddenly becomes dark and monsters appear out of nowhere! And there where also some levels where nothing happens for ages then you hear running footsteps behind you and you almost break your keyboard trying to turn back fast enought or evil laughter sounds in the distance and you totally freak out!...

Return to Castle Wolfenstein also had some moments that made me jump up in my chair, but that was mainly due to enemies jumping onto you while you aren't expecting them (those legless dudes with electricity up their asses were pretty annoying).

I remember some other games that made me feel just plain bad, like something creepy, but I can't name any at the moment.

Firefox for me and that's final. The first thing that catched me some 1 year or so ago is the tabbed browsing and the higher security. Then I found out about all the other cool features and loved it. Opera might be good for it's customizability (argh, spelling) but considering how often things go wrong on my computer I'd rather stick to something that is fully functional and user friendly in it's base package and I don't have to spend a week configuring it.

Take my advise - when you need to clean up your registry or free up space (usually both) just run @KillDisk - does wonder

PS: Yeah, rowleybob, I've been alive for the last 8-9 months, but just not posting - too busy with school.

There's NO WAY you can get 2 gigs out of a registry cleaner - the reagistry is plain text and hex codes. regardless of how long it's been since the last clean it can never be that big.

Speaking of cleaning I just remembered I havent scanned/defragmented/cleaned my machine since the last time I formatted my HDD... 14 months ago...

ZVI Falcon = Sniper Rifle

Weapon: ZVI Falcon
Choice: depends on my mood. I have a stun gun and when everything's fine I just keep it strapped on my belt. If someone phucks with me I might become a public menace...

PS: I'm usually quite calm and it's hard for anything to upset me, but beware - the Falcon has extremely lon grange

1) swedish
2) imposible
3) hapened
4) english
5) undesired
6) result

Only the second one took me longer then 2 seconds.

Damn, and I was about to torch down the office of my provider... Thanks for this one.

PS: I still kinda feel like torching that place... tomorrow, maybe.

Recently I tried connecting to the irc.chatbear.com servers but I couldn't. I thought it was because of my ISP (which, naturaly, sucks badly) but other people can't connect either. Is it just here, or something's really wrong??

Precisely. In fact, the only thing that held me not to run away screaming was that the place was so great for a map! I'm planning to go and visit it once more, but this time with a camera in hand.

Another scary place is my mom's working place. It's a substation, delivering power from the 3 major power plants in the area to the whole country and outside. It's called "Substation West" and the looks of it will make chills go down your spline.

The journey starts with a fairly normal road going out of my home town. The first thing that makes the difirence is the abandoned plaster factory just at the end of town (great place to capture one of those action movies). The trip lasts about 30 minutes by car and the road seems almost deserted for most of it but you'll surely notice the large sign (2x3 meters, large red letter on white background) saying "WARNING! Region with increased concentration of road accidents!" It sits there in 3 languages so no miserable fool misses it (but some still do - for te last month I was there twice and both times there were crashes along the way).

Next comes the town of "Troyanovo" (it comes from Troya, the local version of Troy) - just a normal town with houses and 4-storey blocks. The only thing wrong is that those blocks are abandoned. As well as most of the houses. In fact if you're not local and you see this place you'll probably mistake it for the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown (no nuclear power plants in a radius of 400km but with it's 2 coal pits and 3 power plants the region has the highest respiratory cancer value of the entire country).

Things are getting better now - after a while the raod goes a little higher and you can see one of the two large collieries. It looks great at night with all these lights and the massive excavators.

Following the great view is the old machinery park of the "Repair Depot West". Abandoned trucks, cranes, bulldozers and train wagons lay around just as if they were left the way they were dumped - in absolute disorder. The machinery park streches for about 2km along the road.

Here we are - the constant low-pitch noise cannot be mistaken as you can hear it from far away. Two 5 meter deep pits are marking the unoficial (backdoor) entrance of the building (mother said they're preparing to install new portals, but from her explanation it seemed like these portals have nothing to do with gates). "Don't get close to these coils son, you'll get electrocuted", she said. The markings on the machinery was 20KW wich is really much. In fact if you get within 2 meters range from it a voltaic arc is going to shake you up a bit (98% death chance).

The control rooms was nothing special: 10x10 meters room, covered from side to side with switches, buttons, measuring equipment and warning signs. The dispatchers on duty even showed me how to cut the electricity going to Turkey. But, ofcourse, didn't allowed to touch anything.

Well, I'll be damned. 7th, I like this haircut more.