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    Drive Recovery Software?

    Previously: I had two drives in my machine: an IDE drive with one partition (C) and a SATA drive with two partitions (D and E). My system drive (with windows on it) was the D partition on the second drive. Then: I needed some more space, and I decided that it'd be nice to get rid of the IDE...
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    If you had to choose 3 languages to become proficient in which would they be?

    "best languages to become proficient in" for what purpose? If you want to make money, go for COBOL. Few people know it, nobody likes it, and it's a skill in high demand. You can easily make tons of money if you're willing to spend long hours deciphering ancient COBOL script on the dark dank...
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    which sorting strategy do you prefer? heap,sort... how to sort by calling a class?

    I typically used the C++ function std::sort, but if you can't use the standard library for whatever reason, bubble sort is good enough for your purposes (or, if you must be fancy, go for comb sort).
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    Java vs. C execution time

    I suppose for some definition of "good programming", sure. Personally, though, if I were paying somebody's salary, I'd want the guy that would produce clean, efficient code using the best tools available and not the one that could take a hundred times longer (and cost proportionally more)...
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    Java vs. C execution time

    Technically, you can do it all manually (which is self-evident), but using new/delete or malloc/free using the standard idioms for C++ or C respectively is not the way to achieve such performance. As an analogy, consider programming in C++ vs programing in x86 assembly. It is possible to...
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    Java vs. C execution time

    If you do some research on memory management, you'll find a lot of information about ways garbage collection can be faster than manual memory management from a runtime performance perspective. Put simply, the more control the memory manager has over memory, the less work it has to do to give you...
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    Java vs. C execution time

    If you want to run java on an embedded platform and you care about speed at all (or, even worse, want to call it real time), then you want to use a Java Optimized Processor where the java can be run natively. Comparing java run on a JVM to natively-compiled C is similar to having an...
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    Next Saturday, I finally get to play..

    Lag isn't very random at all (less so than the firing spread in TF2), but I don't remember whether TFC attempted to compensate for it or not. Since there were not many hit-scan weapons, it wouldn't really have been worth the effort, so I don't think they ever ported lag compensation back to TFC...
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    Next Saturday, I finally get to play..

    TFC didn't have a firing spread (unless you count the pellets of the shotguns). TF2 has a significant firing spread with such weapons as the grenade launcher. They are definitely different types of games, and to me, TFC is far superior except in current popularity.
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    TF2 beta with Orange Box Pre-Order

    TFC didn't say "Hey look at me I'm really funny!", it just WAS funny (partly because it was overly serious about silly things). TF2 looks like it's begging people to find it funny, like it wants a pity laugh because it's not funny even though it's trying way too hard. Pleading for a laugh just...
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    TF2 beta with Orange Box Pre-Order

    I never commented about WoW's graphics because I've never found an MMO worth my time (much less my money), but TF2's style has earned it the name "Toon Fortress" in my circle and none of us plan to play it. When I, personally, say "Graphics don't matter", I'm talking about graphics technology -...
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    *Official* Half-Life 2 'gifting' Thread

    That's perfect, because I only want the base game, so somebody can split theirs between us =-)
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    TF2 beta with Orange Box Pre-Order

    TF2 as you once knew it most certainly is vaporware. If you want something that looks like it probably keeps to the spirit of the game better, check out Fortress Forever, which is already out (and is the reason I'd love to get somebody's extra HL2 gifted to me)
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    *Official* Half-Life 2 'gifting' Thread

    If anybody else is going to have an extra copy, I'll take one too.
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    Good PocketPC Audio-Recording Program?

    If nobody knows of decent software, even pointing me to another forum that might would be greatly appreciated!
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    Good PocketPC Audio-Recording Program?

    I would like to record some rather long meetings, and my PocketPC (Dell Axim x50v) is the only real device I have to do so. The recording software that comes with Windows Mobile 2005 is very poorly done - it doesn't support an appropriate codec (speex) and it breaks down when trying to record...
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    The IE user - A tragic tale/IRC log

    I'm laughing at your inability to distinguish between latin and french. I'm also laughing at how he left off the end where I mention that I use Thunderbird because, after similar trials to those I did for browsers, I found it best in the same way I found IE best.
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    What IM program do you use?

    Miranda IM > gaim > Trillian
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    Vector Drawing Program

    Ok, well I figured out how to text baseline alignment working in InkScape: You have to just click with the text tool instead of drawing a box. If you draw a box, the text snaps to the bounding box only (which isn't neccessarily the box you drew), but if you just click and type text, the text...
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    Vector Drawing Program

    Well, I just got the demo installed, and to my dissapointment the only way to align text to it's baseline is apparently to align it to a path, with is going to make it a REAL pain. There is an option 'Align to Baseline', but it appears to do nothing. At first I thought it was working as you...
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    Vector Drawing Program

    I'm downloading the trail of corel draw, and in the flash tour it lists text alignment choices as a new feature in v 12. That could be why I couldn't find it in my school's version, as they have something older.
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    Vector Drawing Program

    Is there some way to tell it where to snap? Having it snap to all 3 places simultaneously (whichever is closer to a snap point) sounds like it'll be really difficult to align the text the way I want.
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    Vector Drawing Program

    Could you explain the steps to make text snap to the grid on it's baseline? I can use CorelDraw at a computer lab at school, so while not an optimal choice (because I can't just open it up whenever I want to work on stuff), if it does what I need I can try using it again.
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    Vector Drawing Program

    Actually I typoed, I meant #3 - text always snaps either by its bounding box or by where you click on every program I've used, which means it looks like crap when you put it over a line because the line is under the tail of 'g's and other characters that go below the baseline.
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    Vector Drawing Program

    When I select "Text -> Put on Path" from the menu, nothing happens.
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    Vector Drawing Program

    How do you snap text to the grid by it's baseline in InkScape? For that matter, how do you snap anything to the grid? The documentation doesn't cover that anywhere. Plenty of occurances of 'snap' and a few of 'grid', but none of those talking about snapping to a grid in any way.
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    Vector Drawing Program

    You would think they would, but I haven't seen #4 anywhere and many of the inexpensive/free programs are missing one or more of the other features. I've tried a corel vector drawing program and I couldn't figure out #4, but maybe I just missed it.
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    Vector Drawing Program

    I'm looking for an inexpensive vector drawing program that allows you to do the following: 1) Specify grid size in real-world units (I need a 0.1 inch grid) 2) Create text objects using any font on my system in any available size of any color with any other properties the font supports (bold...
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    What would be your top 10 videogames of all time?

    Sorted by system then by estimated release date: NES: Super Mario Brothers 3 SNES: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Super Metroid Final Fantasy 3 Earthbound PC: Hexen Diablo Half-Life Serious Sam Can't think of a tenth. Maybe it should be a puzzle game like...
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    Battlefield 2: The Video Card Controversy

    Believe it or not, this is a recent development. There was once a time when the latest greatest game ran even on the lowest end stuff. As far as I can tell, the last game to do that was Quake 3 - it looked great and ran fantastic on onboard video. The only reason it doesn't support the GF4 is...
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    db formula

    This is the correct way to 'add' decibel values - you convert from the logarithmic scale back to linear, add, then convert back to the logarithmic scale Decibels are a logarithmic system: db = 10 * log10(value) Thus, to undo it, Value = 10 ^ (db / 10) Then you add up the values to the the...
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    Holy diesel batman

    I guess the pricing down here is just odd, but diesel is priced the same as the high grade stuff and thus not anywhere near as inexpensive as the low grade that most people buy.
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    Nintendo Sucks!

    :thumbsup: Stating your proposal then refuting it isn't a very strong debate technique As to all those listing games as examples of Nintendo's awesomeness: Their main titles (mario, zelda, metroid, etc) were NOT meant to be 3D, and all the 3D versions I've played completely and utterly...
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    RoShamBo Programming Competition

    You just want something not so difficult =-P
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    RoShamBo Programming Competition

    The International RoShamBo Programming Competition FAQ clearly states: :P
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    RoShamBo Programming Competition

    On seeing the International RoShamBo Programming Competition website, I was dissapointed to see that the page had last been updated in over 4 years ago, and I decided to try to start a similar competition. The basic idea is that you must create a bot in C++ to compete against others in a...
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    creating an installer? how?

    You could use the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.
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    PSA: pics.bbzzdd.com 2.99 up and running!

    Nice feature list on the upgrade, but there are few small problems: 1) It doesn't properly set the background color on many pages, so (for me at least) they end up having a few white boxes with a different color background 2) It looks REALLY ugly =-/ Fixing the previous might help some, but...
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    Algorithm Ideas?

    You could add 'operator <' to your object (if it doesn't have one) and use a map<object, int> to store the object->index mapping to be able to get the index of an object. If you have two indexes per object, you could either maintain two maps as you sort or make it a map<object, pair<int, int> >
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    Best programming language to start with?

    Just to be different, I'll suggest Common Lisp. It's an old language, and in some ways in need of an update, but it has pretty much all the features modern languages are advertising as new, and the age by no means prevents it from being a truly useful language - the thing is that it isn't used...
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