Daeval

No reason to be mean about it. :\ You might start by figuring out if it works as a Direct X joypad on the windows control panel game controllers screen. From there, you can determine if you'll need drivers, etc.

Oh right... GL = Good Luck? I'm way flocking too old for this. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm just guessing.

God of War looks like it could be a decent game, but the amount of hype it's recieving turns me off. Watching the trailers, it just looks like your average action/adventure title with nice graphics and some overzealous advertising. Even the developers in the "behind the scenes" on gametrailers are just a fountain of buzzwords and no real, solid info to put it above anything else on the market. So far, they've shown beating guys up, pushing crap around, and pulling levers. Granted, you're using flaming swords on chains, but that has really only mattered in one fight they've shown so far, and then it looked like a one-button-press deal with a scripted result. I'm expecting another "you'll be entertained, but you won't have to change your pants" title along the lines of Rygar or Mark of Kri. It will surprise me if it's as good as Beyond Good & Evil.

I think he's wishing the emulator developers good luck?

Fallout 1 (I'm on my way to the last boss, wearing power armor and weilding a super sledge - watch out you mutant bastards) and Mega Man 2, in a group marathon yesterday (instead of watching the game) trying to remember what order to do things and then actually accomplish them. We got to wily then got lazy and quit..

Aren't you the one that said no one would be thrown in the stockades for their opinion? Not that I don't agree.. There comes a point where technique gets the advantage over raw strength and showmanship.

Ummm.. That's exactly what I was looking for... Re-read the original post. I agree wholeheartedly. It's starting to look like no one has really caught on though.

Yeah, Morrowind is a lot like a MMORPG without all the BS, or the other players. Even without the expansion packs, it's freakin' HUGE. Low blow!

This is basically my conclusion. Which is a shame, really, as torrents are powerful enough that they should supplement, or even replace (with dedicated seeds), traditional downloads for the big file-repositories. It would save them bandwidth and make it a hell of a lot faster, and more convinient, for the end users. As I said earlier, I nabbed Star Wars: Republic Commando at just about the full speed my line can handle, which hasn't happened on File Planet in at least 4 years.

I know there was one in progress, but they stopped when the DS came out. I'm looking for one though, 'cause there's an Elder Scrolls game that's N-Gage exclusive.

gigex.com isn't a torrent site, but it looks like a decent resource anyway. Thanks for the link! I found Legaltorrents.com earlier, but it has a really limited selection of stuff. I guess it fits all my criteria, but misses out for lack of content.

My vote's on the little guy. The hand warm up is weird though. Leave bruce's stuff to bruce (aside from jkd, of course). :\

The other day, I was cruising for new demos and other interesting downloads and ended up trying to download the republic commando demo from Fileplanet. The fileplanet wait was about an hour and a half, so I went looking for alternate sources. Long story short, I found a torrent and had all 4-500 megs of the demo in less than a tenth of the time it would have taken me to even start the download off of Fileplanet. So I started using Fileplanet as a resource to find the files I wanted, then googling for torrents of the same files. The results were crappy at best. I tried some of the "seedy" (aahaha, pun!....) torrent sites and had poor luck wading through gig after gig of bad porn to find only a few legitimate files. So the question becomes... Does anyone know of a site that meets all three of these criteria: 1) It's legitimate - no warez, mp3s, vcds, etc. Just legitimate torrents. 2) It's organized - Not that Fileplanet is all that well organized, but long, arbitrary lists of torrents suck. Searchable is a definite plus. 3) The torrents are good - I found a few sites that ALMOST worked for me, but 90% of the torrents were completely dead. At least it would be nice to be able to see the number of seeds, etc from the site. Remember, it HAS to be legit. That's what made it a tough thing to find - anyone can find the illegal ones if they know how to look. Furthermore, YOU CANNOT LINK TO SITES WITH WAREZ, ETC ON THIS BOARD. So don't try to get me in trouble, or my thread closed, by putting those links in this thread. Thanks.

Alright, I don't know how complicated your teacher wants it, but here's a real basic way to do it I whipped up just now. I'd never messed with basic listboxes before (just combo/pull down), so I used this as a chance to practice. I think I probably underestimated your coding ability when I first read your question, so I'm going to assume you know about creating an instance of a frame, etc. Conversion numbers are obviously made up. You'd also want to play with a NumberFormat to get the output looking nice. // Imports import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; public class ConversionFrame extends java.awt.Frame implements ActionListener { // Class Variables TextField txtInput; Label lblResults; Button btnCalculate; List lstConversions; // Constructor public ConversionFrame(String title, int width,int height) { // I'm going to assume you know how to set the title, // dimensions, and give it a windowlistener to close the frame // I also didn't bother making it pretty. // Declare UI Stuff txtInput = new TextField(15); lblResults = new Label(" "); btnCalculate = new Button("Convert"); lstConversions = new List(4, false); // Add list components lstConversions.add("USD to Euros", 0); lstConversions.add("USD to Yen",1); lstConversions.add("USD to Pesos",2); lstConversions.add("USD to Canadian",3); // Add objects to the frame add(txtInput); add(lstConversions); add(btnCalculate); add(lblResults); // Give the button the ActionListener btnCalculate.addActionListener(this); // Display the frame setVisible(true); } // This is what happens when you hit the button... public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { double input = Float.parseFloat(txtInput.getText()); // Test the selected index number switch(lstConversions.getSelectedIndex()) { case 0: // USD to Euros lblResults.setText(Double.toString(input * 1.25)); break; case 1: // USD to Yen lblResults.setText(Double.toString(input * 0.25)); break; case 2: // USD to Pesos lblResults.setText(Double.toString(input * 12.5)); break; case 3: // USD to Canadian lblResults.setText(Double.toString(input * 0.125)); break; default: lblResults.setText("Error"); } } }

Alright, well see my little blurb above.. that would be how I would go about it anyway. If you're not already using it, this is a godsend for java programming: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/ Click on the class you're interested in on the left (combobox, for example) and you'll get all the functions and constructors and things for it. Handy stuff. Is this your first program for the class? It's kind of complicated for a first program... Or are you just looking for how lists work?

That's why you don't light your DVD player on fire. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Seriously, that's like.. not normal usage conditions. Maybe buy your next CD/DVD player somewhere other than the swap meet? The very first CD I ever owned (Green Day - Dookie, which is now 10 years old) still works just fine. In fact, I think I only had one CD ever go bad on me, and that's because I lent it to a friend who, as far as I can tell, used it to test his shaving razors. A quick run through a DVD-Doctor and even it works good as new. The only CD/DVD player that's ever screwed up on me is the one in my car, which is now 11 years old, and which took a blow from a would-be theif that was hard enough to crack a good portion of my front console. It still works, it just skips once in a while and won't read CDs by the band Live for some reason. I don't understand how people can screw these things up.

In the VirtuaNES launcher, how do you get the title, company, etc fields to get filled in? I'm assuming you don't have to do it manually...

Woah woah, slow down.. Is this for a class or something? Are you doing an applet or an actual program? How is it you got the GUI done without knowing how make it work? Are you programming from scratch or are you using existing code (or plug-in code)? It should be pretty easy, you'll just need a frame with a textfield, a label, the listbox and a button. Then have the listbox set the value for a variable, and use that to reference a switch in your actionperformed for the button. If you have specific questions or whatever I can probably help. You can PM or IM or whatever.

You could try dattebayo, I'm not sure how accurate their translations are though... Also 120 wasn't a one hour long episode was it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> no i wasnt an hour... dattebayo is good enough. i was downloading nothing but ANBU every weekend for quite awhile...during the Gara Saga. But i jus tried Anime_Heaven (Dattebayo) once just to get them earlier (WEdnesday night) and its jus a downgrade from ANBU on 10 percent. so not much of a difference really...if ur a collector of ANBU, by all means, but if u wanna watch it and get it earlier too, then Dattebayo shouldnt be a problem.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, ok, cool. I'll just wait for the ANBU then since, to be honest, I've only watched through about episode 98 and am just getting the later ones in case it gets licenced and harder to find.

To the best of my knowledge, we don't have optical drives that match the speeds (or silence) of things like a good SATA Hard Drive, at least in terms of initial seek times and such. So, using an optical drive for ALL the data storage would be kinda lame. It's getting pretty close for anything that doesn't require that kind of pick-up time though. It will be an interesting day when your PC hard drive assumes the role of world's largest memory card, if that. We'll have gone full circle. Or for that matter, when these disks reach 300GB or TB sizes, will it be cheaper to make a hard drive to match, or just specially mount one of these disks inside a dedicated internal re-writer, to simulate a hard drive?

IT IS A MAD UPGRADE I LOVE. Have you heard their Mega Man 2? It's like listening to Jesus preach porn. No Bubble Man music though. But it still rocks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They openned the set with Mega Man 2, and they threw some Bubble Man in there. It was practically a religious experience, seeing as Mega Man 2 had some of my favorite music on the NES. The live version was better too because it had that live show energy that's missing from their "studio" recordings.

Has K' made you jealous of his troll status? Heh.. seeing them live was definately an odd experience. There was something surreal about the change in context: from "I'm 8, and I'm sitting in my room in front of my nintendo" to "I'm in a smoky bar, 10 feet from a full grown man who is rocking out to a live band, drunk off his ass and wearing a power glove." And I think if they were really "remixes" I wouldn't like them so much, but they're pretty damn faithful to the originals, so it basically sounds like your NES got a mad upgrade to its midi software.

Somehow, I think the fight for artists' rights would be a little more amiable if the giant para-military organization behind it actually gave a flying flock about artists' rights.

If that's true, I'm going to love photoshopping a halo marine's head onto one of the girls.

This game has been advertised to death. It looked too hyped to actually be good, but maybe I'll give it a rental after all.