from what I know, 7 megabits is one megabite. or is it spelled megabyts? wait no, that's megabytes.. or is it?

lol anyway, one of them is pronounced "bites" and the other "bits", they're not the same thing. internet connection speed is defined in megabits, while megabytes are a different thing. to download one megabyte every second, you need a 7mbits/s connection speed.

At 9/12/08 03:57 PM, funkycaveman wrote: so are you able to make like a top 3 list of languages to learn please

1. haXe
2. Nothing. Unless there's something that catches your interest of course. It's hard to say what language to learn because there's so many languages that are good at different things. With haXe however you can do flash games if you want that, socket server or database (compiling to Neko) if you want that and create a website if you want that. It's truly universal so it's a good way to start.

At 9/12/08 03:59 PM, citricsquid wrote: When an ISP advertises a connection, they adverts in BITS. 8 BITS make up a byte. So, when you download at 100KB, you're actually downloading at 8000BITS. So, a 20MEGABITS connection, is actually, only 2.5MEGABYTES. Because, 1MEGABIT, Is not 1 MEGABYTE.

That is why, if you're paying for a 8MB connection, your actual max download is 1MB/PS. Make sense?

I guess. Thanks Squiddo. Hehe, 8MB is the size on a Ps2 Memory card. Said fact is the limit of my knowledge with all these huge computer storing digits.

At 9/12/08 04:00 PM, Toast wrote: download one megabyte every second, you need a 7mbits/s connection speed.

Hmm, I'm pretty confident you need 8mbits instead since one byte is 8 bits.

At 9/12/08 04:04 PM, hesselbom wrote:

At 9/12/08 03:57 PM, funkycaveman wrote: so are you able to make like a top 3 list of languages to learn please

1. haXe

ok thanks i will look into haXe in the future, its open source so is it lunix, i need xp or vista?

C++ is fucking win.

C# is good if you use it with XNA and all that, but I prefer to use normal C++ with graphic libraries like Allegro and GLUT (openGL)

Re:Jimp's collab idea

At 9/12/08 03:09 PM, J1mp wrote: Ive had a pretty cool idea for a collab, the more I think about it and how good it could be if we did it well, the more excited i get!

Really good idea Jimp I like it. If you are prepared to be the host I would like to do a section. I really think you should start this idea up.

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It's cool to see that two of the people I said about responded to this post(Toast & Liam), and another two I didn't mention but where next in line also posted (SpamBurger & Depredation)

Wow Mogly, am I really that invisible to you lot?

whenever someone starts to mention names and forgets some people get upset. mogly said "and many others" because he wasn't going to list every user.

At 9/12/08 04:30 PM, SpamBurger wrote:

At 9/12/08 04:17 PM, funkycaveman wrote: ok thanks i will look into haXe in the future, its open source so is it lunix, i need xp or vista?

It's called Linux -_-

lol lunix.

Also, J1mp, very nice idea. If you're hosting it I will for sure take part in it. :D

Cool, glad to see people are interested already! I might make a cutscene and do some art work to get people interested for when / if I launch it :P

Id still need to find a programmer to help me out though.

At 9/12/08 04:17 PM, funkycaveman wrote: ok thanks i will look into haXe in the future, its open source so is it lunix, i need xp or vista?

It's open source so if you have anything to contribute to it, you can. I doubt you have anything to contribute yet though. ;)

You can just download haXe here and choose whatever installer suits your operating system.

Don't worry about the open source thing, I just said it to point out that it's free to use.

At 9/12/08 04:40 PM, J1mp wrote: Cool, glad to see people are interested already! I might make a cutscene and do some art work to get people interested for when / if I launch it :P

Id still need to find a programmer to help me out though.

Hello J1mp :3

I'll talk to you on msn now

At 9/12/08 04:42 PM, hesselbom wrote: suits your operating system.

Don't worry about the open source thing, I just said it to point out that it's free to use.

cool...thanks

At 9/12/08 03:24 PM, liaaaam wrote: I'll go to the bar for you, kid. Lol, I look about 16-17 - I get ID'ed pretty much always :( But at least I have ID now, heh.

Yeah, i get that a lot too. Once i went to a pub and got ID'ed 4 times, and one time the bouncer guy actually got me out of my seat to check my ID and use his special laser thing to make sure my driving license wasn't a fake.

It's gotten worse for me since I've grown my hair longer. The other day i went to an offy to stock me up with some beer, and the guy thought I was trying to use a friend's ID. I had to recite my full name and home address to him before he believed me, and I was ready to get out all of my other forms of ID to show that it was actually me.

When do you start uni, liam? 21st for me :D cant wait for freshers week!

At 9/12/08 04:30 PM, SpamBurger wrote: It's called Linux -_-

yeaah sorry that makes me dislike you more funkycaveman o.0 0.o -_- T.T

At 9/12/08 04:47 PM, CybexALT wrote:

At 9/12/08 03:24 PM, liaaaam wrote:

Yeah, i get that a lot too. Once i went to a pub and got ID'ed 4 times, and one time the bouncer guy actually got me out of my seat to check my ID and use his special laser thing to make sure my driving license wasn't a fake.

It's gotten worse for me since I've grown my hair longer. The other day i went to an offy to stock me up with some beer, and the guy thought I was trying to use a friend's ID. I had to recite my full name and home address to him before he believed me, and I was ready to get out all of my other forms of ID to show that it was actually me.

HAH PWNED! I'm not 18 yet so i can't go drinking and all, but i know whenever i use my visa i have to sign for it, and my signature is different every time! so people are like "well.. it doesn't really look like your sig..." im like "shit... but it IS!"

At 9/12/08 04:35 PM, Blaze wrote:

At 9/12/08 04:30 PM, SpamBurger wrote:

At 9/12/08 04:17 PM, funkycaveman wrote: ok thanks i will look into haXe in the future, its open source so is it lunix, i need xp or vista?

It's called Linux -_-

lol lunix.

its not that funny, i was almost there :(

At 9/12/08 05:55 PM, funkycaveman wrote: its not that funny, i was almost there :(

almost being the keyword in that sentence.

At 9/12/08 06:03 PM, Blaze wrote:

At 9/12/08 05:55 PM, funkycaveman wrote: its not that funny, i was almost there :(

almost being the keyword in that sentence.

lol, i was closer than almost. it was a bit of a rush job

1,301 pages? This is historic. Seriously, and it was locked, too. And now it's not. The ONLY freaking thread like that.

At 9/12/08 06:13 PM, Super-Yombario wrote: 1,301 pages? This is historic. Seriously, and it was locked, too. And now it's not. The ONLY freaking thread like that.

You should see the general's reg lounge :P

general is more popular due to a larger target audience and thus creating more 'reg' in the general, in consequence the lounge get crowded and some people done get heard. so in total the flash reg is better, due to its more experienced members but still receives small quantities of spam

At 9/12/08 06:26 PM, funkycaveman wrote: general is more popular due to a larger target audience and thus creating more 'reg' in the general, in consequence the lounge get crowded and some people done get heard. so in total the flash reg is better, due to its more experienced members but still receives small quantities of spam

Mainly caused by you and mwmike :P And me and zrb a couple of weeks ago but W.E.

Yeah J1mp I'd be interested in doing that. If you make a thread I'll probably see it since I can usually get on to check whats going on every day depending on shizzle.

Wow castle crashers doesn't work online. I have to play like a loner or have people in the flesh. It even managed to freeze everyones consoles in my lobby at once : /

Mainly caused by you and mwmike :P And me and zrb a couple of weeks ago but W.E.

oh man thats annoying, i will die with that sterotype, dammit mwmike but there you go.

At 9/12/08 03:52 PM, citricsquid wrote: 8 BITS = 1 BYTE So a 20MBIT connection, is actually only a 2.5MBYTE connection, so your maximum download will be 2.5mbyte a second, not 6mbytePS. :)

So you're saying the connection at my work is 48mb? I said 20mb because that is the largest available in the UK, and it's definitely megabytes not megabits. The reason the download speed isn't 20mb a second is because the connection from the user (i.e., the McDonalds I work at) and the server things is shared by others in the local area.. I can't remember the exact explanation, but it's not megabits.

At 9/12/08 03:26 PM, funkycaveman wrote: Programming

I suggest learning C++ because it's a structured OOP language and thus knowledge of it can be applied to other OOP languages, including AS, JS, Java, PHP, etc. Knowledge of one helps with the others a lot, I've found. However, colleges never use C++. We were forced to learn BASIC at my college :/ Take it from me, Computing sucks :P

At 9/12/08 04:47 PM, CybexALT wrote: When do you start uni, liam? 21st for me :D cant wait for freshers week!

22nd, although I go on the 21st too. What uni are you going to?

At 9/12/08 04:30 PM, SpamBurger wrote: It's called Linux -_-

Ubuntu for the win :P If only there was as much commercial support for Linux as there is for Windows and Mac.. it's unbelievable how much Linux is used in business, not just for backend stuff but a lot of movies special effects were done in Linux. I'm sure a Linux port of CS3 would be welcome with open arms by the development community.

At 9/12/08 06:36 PM, tommattox wrote: Mainly caused by you and mwmike :P And me and zrb a couple of weeks ago but W.E.

And sometimes you too tommatox =P

but zrb was cool

eh hem. liam i believe my sig still states that your a noob?

At 9/12/08 03:26 PM, funkycaveman wrote: Programming

I suggest learning C++ because it's a structured OOP language and thus knowledge of it can be applied to other OOP languages, including AS, JS, Java, PHP, etc. Knowledge of one helps with the others a lot, I've found. However, colleges never use C++. We were forced to learn BASIC at my college :/ Take it from me, Computing sucks :P

ok thanks but at my college they say they teach you some basics, i think im learning one the the C languages. and then they give us a task and we can do it with anything we want, AS, BASIC, java, so it should be good, but iove only had a week of it some im not sure, theory is bad tho.

At 9/12/08 06:43 PM, liaaaam wrote:

At 9/12/08 04:47 PM, CybexALT wrote: When do you start uni, liam? 21st for me :D cant wait for freshers week!

22nd, although I go on the 21st too. What uni are you going to?

BARF (bath).

you?

At 9/12/08 06:52 PM, funkycaveman wrote: ok thanks but at my college they say they teach you some basics, i think im learning one the the C languages. and then they give us a task and we can do it with anything we want, AS, BASIC, java, so it should be good, but iove only had a week of it some im not sure, theory is bad tho.

There was an awful lot of theory in Computing, and when you know quite a bit about computing already.. it's really dull. Sounds good that you can use anything to do the tasks, but there aren't many C languages - C, C++, C# (though that's not really used for 'normal' programming). If you're learning C, you'll be able to do C++ - it's just added full OOP (++ = OOP?). Have fun anyway :P