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My brother has the illness. Every ounce of self-doubt I have, I worry is the beginning manifestation of Schizophrenia in my own mind. It's not a good place to be - that worry that every time you "hear voices", it's some sort of announcement about your own mental state? The worst for me is mishearing people, or muffled conversations, where I fill in the gaps with extremely negative content, causing a downwards spiral in emotion. I'm sure it's nothing, and I'm perfectly normal though.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but certainly Hexels is an interesting tool for creating cool art

http://hexraystudios.com/hexels/

30 - 50 years, damn I feel old, I only just sneak into that bracket though. TRS-80 coding in BASIC was my first machine/language combination, I was 8 at the time.

Damn. If only they released Word 2.0. Then I could hack it to work on newer versions of Windows. It's still the single best word processing package in the history of this universe.

Pretty much this. any smart watch with current battery tech is going to be on the charger a lot. My gps/hrm watch needs to be charged at least once a week, and that is annoying, I can only imagine what a "smart watch" is going to need in terms of charge cycles.

I felt like I was alone with this problem. I have been unable to solve some reCAPTCHA generated puzzles for about 6 months now. There was one particular site, I badly wanted to complete the registration form, but after about the 7th or 8th attempt at solving the captcha, I just decided it wasn't worth it. Now I don't even bother? reCAPTCHA? Bye.

Emotions get the better of people as a deadline approaches. The market will become an exaggeration of the actual excitement factor of the game.

Hell, emotions get the better of people without a deadline.

it definitely is available with betfair - it allows you to filter a huge amount of garbage data because people are always setting 1.01 / 1000.0 positions, and if you don't exclude them they skew actual implied probabilities.

at a guess - Betfair.

The worst thing I found with Windows 8. Using any of the metro apps, there was embedded advertising inside of the apps. Upsetting to be advertised to inside of applications running on an O/S that I paid money for.

It's ok though, they fixed it, when I upgraded to Windows 8.1, the upgrade destroyed my ability to run metro style apps at all - I just got some arcane error message when I try to run/launch anything metro related.

I went back to Windows 7.

haha, yeah, same I started out on BBS's with a 1200 baud modem and that required serious patience (better than my grand father who had a 300 bps acoustic coupler). We moved interstate and I had no ADSL for a week. I set up a modem, and it had been _years_ since I used one. I forgot you had to enable error correction in the init string (modem init string, remember those!), and so the connection was so bad I couldn't even get a page to load.

Thankfully there's mobile tethering/hot-spotting now

Keeping load times down on dialup.

last month I hit my usage cap and was capped to 256k downstream. 256k. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING SIX! FIVE TIMES FASTER THAN DIALUP! I thought that's fine I can cope.

The internet is highly broken at 256k. Pages basically don't ever completely load. You end up having to cancel. You end up turning off images, turning off javascript.

I can't imagine what the web is like at 56k now. Completely fucking un-functional I would imagine.

I would have thought that was to define a new sub-class

Yeah, all 3! I loved those games

I worry that SC is way too ambitious. I never really thought Wing Commander ever delivered on it's hype, and I think SC is more of the same. I look forward to being proven wrong though.

BSG online has a bit of a following, but being browser based I gave it a miss

There is a whole generation of people who haven't played XVT and that is a real shame. XVT has aged well over the course of time. I once dreamed of the day LucasArts was going to release XVT for the 21st century. Once they hosed that studio I gave up on the dream.

Where are you looking? I see "ivansafrin authored 6 months ago"

edit: just realised you were talking about one of the branches, attention to detail fail

Polycode looks a little quiet, which is disappointing, it looks really nice.

Just playing around with this.... cross platform, doesn't try and be a "no programming required" environment, GDScript looks good enough. Whole env is intuitive. The live docs are decent. A couple of minutes in and I'm already making something. This is pretty damned cool!

My kids had this game on their ipad. They asked me to have a go at it, I had a look, started playing... 30 minutes later "Dad can I have my my ipad back". Seriously I was hating that game, but the desire to beat my kids score outweighed my frustration at some of those issues (hitbox of the pipes etc). I HAD to beat my previous score, I HAD to master the delicate touch required to precisely navigate those pipes. It's not even a new mechanic. It's the same as Jet Pack Joyride, so it's a copy of existing games, and it completely flogged Mario world graphics, possibly stole them as is and the guy might even have to answer to Nintendo.

It isn't on my list of games I've loved, but it was fun, in a completely infuriating way.

It's better than other games my kids typically play, ice-cream manufacturing/construction type games

As well as all the antibiotics that are pumped into the feed to keep the fish "healthy"

I think I know the answer to this question, but I'll ask anyway - Have you seriously tried to use the Embarcadero products for a "shippable" ios/android app?

I'm guessing no.

The entire experience is a sorry joke. I'm a big fan of Delphi as far as a tool to produce good/fast/native apps goes. They really dropped the ball with the ios/android tools. They ripped off GPL code, causing multiple patches to "fix" mis-appropriated open source code, it's fairly obvious there is no money, and the only customers they have are the existing ones who have a bunch of greybeards with a lot of Delphi experience and nothing else who are desperate to pump out _something_ for the mobile market, but are unprepared to learn _anything_ new.

Sorry, I'm just bitter that they took a decent product (Delphi 7), and took a shit on it, and then continued to grind it into oblivion.

Using KeePass combined with btsync - fairly decent combination. Have my db synch'd across all my devices, and available from any desktop machine I have access to. Haven't tried using the android version, but I'm sure it works well.

Now I just have to trust the security of btsync

Damn you're right, can't believe I missed that detail, I'd pretty much decided on a PS4 because, hey, free PSN

http://www.geek.com/games/sony-psn-running-costs-are-too-hig...

I guess it was pretty amazing to offer that for free, all good things...

Sadly you're right $99 AUD for $49 USD games. Yeeeep. That was fine when the Aussie dollar was buying 50 US cents....

It's like technical books here, 1998? 1999? I think that's around when the AUD bought 50/55 cents, Tech books skyrocketed to twice the price if the US RRP, fair enough. When the Aussie dollar reached parity last year or the year before, those tech books? Still twice the price.

Good idea, ease into it, show them some leaves, stem cross sections, then "hey I wonder what a sugar ant looks like..." lead into the spider gently

Yeah you're right, it will probably terrify them - I have tried though, play with the spiders, pick them up and put them outside, doesn't seem to help

Exactly what I was going to say. When that A New Microsoft came out, I was blown away and wondered what would happen to the person who produced it. Now he's on the Xbox design team, Awesome. I'll be buying a PS4 this time around though, I hate to use TCO as an example, but it really does matter - If you owned a 360 from day one and you subbed to xbox live, well in Australia that's $90 per year for the last 8 years, that's the cost of a whole second console. Hey how did I turn this into a PS4 vs Xbox One comment.

This is definitely going to be the next weekend project with my kids. They are so scared of spiders (daddy long legs in particular, our house has thousands of them).

Time to show the girls what they look like at 175x magnification!

I thought maybe I was the only one who struggled with recaptcha captchas. On some sites I have literally tried 10-15 times before finally becoming too frustrated and giving up solving the captcha because whatever it was (form to fill out for a download, fill out a comment on a site), just wasn't worth the time I was wasting. Hugely irritating.