PlaneShift
Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: batdude007 on March 06, 2003, 06:26:06 pm
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I can\'t stand it any more!! I need to play PlanShift, but I can\'t!!! When will the new release be out?! Someone plz tell me! 8o
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It happends every time. I read an article about some new ground breaking MMORPG or RPG. I go to there site to check it out, even seeing if they need help. After all I\'m a free lance programmer and CG artist. They need help but they 16yr olds. Anyways where was I, oh yeah. I check out the forum on the site. I post a question avout some little thing I don\'t understand (see: How can that be...?) and there is allways 1 or 2 idoits on there that pook fun. The post says I\'m a newbie, yeah, newbie to the forum not the field. Think about that. To me your a newbie. By the way if you want to see my work... I wrote code for 12 different freeware programs and currently design Web Templates for any one to use. My CG animation skills are only being applied to my new RPG call The Legend of Ka-Tar, which is set to be released late 2004. I don\'t like arguing with you so lets let it be.
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Originally posted by batdude007
It happends every time. I read an article about some new ground breaking MMORPG or RPG. I go to there site to check it out, even seeing if they need help. After all I\'m a free lance programmer and CG artist. They need help but they 16yr olds.
That\'s because most countries have child labor laws and volunteer work is still work.
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PlaneShift is no profit and strickly voulentary. Child labor laws don\'t aplly. Even if they did a 14yr old (like my self) can work as a bag boy at a grocery store. :O
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You\'re only 14?????
Sorry but I am laughing so hard right now....
You make it seem like your a bigshot programmer and your a 14 year old kid....
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oh boy 14haha...hang on....I\'m 20 an still searching for rpgs....hrmmmm lol
I\'d kill to be able to write code but I\'m stuck with stupid simple beta testing for sucky games.... maybe I could do some 2d art cause the races on the planeshift site don\'t corrispond to their descriptions dats silly
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im 14 to, and a total newb. id like to think im good at rpgs but i most likely suck but i am dedicated tho.
and btw theres nothing rong with bein a big kid. thats what im gonna b in 6 years :D
i spend most of my time out so i dont have much time left to really get into the technical stuff of computers. ive always thought that would be cool to learn tho.
oh...i almost 4got i have a question or two:
1) Im still downloading coz i hav a 56k modem :(
(i know) will i get a lot of lag.
2) when i download the parts 9/10 times it doesnt finish and stops like half way through. now with a 56k modem u can imagine how long this is gonna take me to dl this. ne tips?
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2) when i download the parts 9/10 times it doesnt finish and stops like half way through. now with a 56k modem u can imagine how long this is gonna take me to dl this. ne tips?
Ya, it would help you a lot if you downloaded a program called Download accelerator, it allows you to resume downloads from any point you were last. The program is at http://www.speedbit.com/
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whether you get alot of lag or not will depend on your processor speed, and it seems that most of all it will depend on how much ram you have. All I can say is good luck. There are few who can play without lag right now, but it\'s being worked on. ;)
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oh tnx 4 the tip on the dl. and btw i hav a petium 4, 2.2GH 256MB Ram. not bad but i gotta get a better connection.
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You will probably have some lag because of your ram and the memory leak that the game has. But then again, you might be one of the lucky few who gets away with minimal lag.
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MULLINGAR, Ireland -- A 16-year-old Irish student has startled the Internet world by creating a new Web browser that may -- or may not -- be able to goose browsing times by 600 percent.
But the speed claims for the browser -- which comes with 120 search engines, all the major media players, a DVD player, and an HTML and WAP editor built in -- have drawn criticism because no one has yet been able to clock it.
Adnan Osmani, a shy but cheerful student at St. Finian\'s school in this town about 50 miles from Dublin, spent two years coding what he calls his \"Xwebs megabrowser\" for an annual Irish school science challenge, the Esat BT Young Scientist of the Year competition.
\"I just wanted it faster, for myself,\" said Osmani, the son of two doctors. \"I wanted to make the perfect browser.\"
Osmani\'s programming precocity is undoubted, said judges for the competition. Larry Taylor, a judge from the competition\'s sponsor Esat BT, said Xwebs \"is of the level of a final-year project by a university student and would be given the highest marks.\"
Osmani said he has developed an algorithm that speeds up the way information is handled inside the browser. The technique takes advantage of the features of a particular type of server used widely on the Internet.
The browser handles multiple requests for information, he said. So, instead of a single stream of information, several streams are processed simultaneously. In essence, the task of bringing over a Web page is divided into a set of smaller tasks, cutting the time it takes to reassemble a Web page on the computer screen.
But the judges evaluated Osmani\'s browser without even considering its speed, as they could not independently benchmark it and lacked complete access to the browser\'s source code, Taylor said.
Osmani won\'t reveal more of the code because he is exploring the possibility of patenting or copyrighting aspects of his browser. Some judges said they were unsure whether the process would work in the real world, but others believe it could....
Full article at: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57393,00.html
He is only two years older than me.... Maybe people that are younger than you are smarter than you. :O
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Sign him up. I\'d be thrilled to have him on the team. ;-)
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I can\'t wait to test out the browser if it gets out. :D
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I don\'t think that age is a real barrier to getting involved in some serious business, be it programming, design, or anything. Personally my main concern would be the quality of work - It doesn\'t matter what you age is - If you can do something better than somebody else it shows you\'re getting something right isn\'t it?
I guess why most people might laugh when you say you\'re 14 is cos they don\'t expect many 14-yr-olds to be very good at what they claim to be able to do. No doubt there are geniuses out there, but perhaps their skepticism is that you\'re not likely to be one of them.
Still, until they\'ve seen what you can do it\'s pretty hard for anybody to say anything really. I\'ve seen friends who got temp jobs doing programming for large companies at the age of 14. So it\'s no surprise if a young upstart can teach his older counterpart one or two things.
I\'m 20 btw, not much of a programmer at all, more of an enthusiast, and I\'m part of the team that keeps the Fragnetics server where Planeshift is hosted running. Age is really no barrier at all :)
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personally, age is just something useless,really. I\'ve met children who are more mature and intellegent than those who are rearing them. and as for child labor laws, those were put up by officials who wanted to protect children from grueling labor back int the 1800\'s. you think the current day drop out rate is frightening? check out history! most youngsters worked for practically free, and they never finished basic schooling. so the times are just now catching up. (btw if you want to volunteer to help with production, I dont mind one single bit ;). you will have to get a parents permission and all that legal mambo-jumbo outta the way though)
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but I agree, I CANT WAIT TILL THIS GAME IS FINISHED!!!
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i wish i had some skill so that i could help out in planeshift but im just useless really except i can fix computers pretty good but that aint much help really.. oh well.. poor me :o(
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i started programming C when i was 10-11, did basic before that, made my first relatively good game in opengl when i was 14. (i\'m 15 now and a complete linux freak)
I really wouldn\'t judge people based on their age when talking about computers. I would however judge people on their typing skills, which batdude seems to lack.
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Ouch! That was a cheap shot...
By the way.. Linux rules, widows sucks, and Bill gates is a wang banger.
POWER TO THE PINGUINE!!! :D
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Yep, you\'re a bigshot programmer.
Now. Spell \"penguin\".
Actually....spell.
Perhaps your claims would carry more weight if it wasn\'t crammed with typos. I\'d be willing to believe you - my husband wrote his first program at five. But he also was very literate.
Just a thought.
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Big shot, no way...
I know enough, but I\'m no big shot...
I\'m spelling impared, so what. When scripting every thing I make is duble checked and debuged.
By the way... Albert Einstien couldn\'t drive. Didn\'t stop him from be one of the worlds greatest thinkers! And yes, there were cars back then! :D
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actually Albert Einstein was quite bad at maths in school aswell or so ive heard but there we go some irrelevent information for you
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*chuckles*
Well, I think I\'ll just nod and smile and bow out of this one. If you think spelling is \"so what\", good luck writing a CV or getting into Uni.
Hubby is groaning the words \"script kiddie\" behind me...
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well, this is by no means an attack on you, but if you had at least a sufficient mark in maths you could figure out that one albert einstein agaist several milions of morons that also aren\'t good at maths makes a pretty slim chance that you\'re in the albert einstein class :]
...it\'s just a simple statistic ...on which most people decide
i mean, if you\'re really that good as you claim, my hat\'s off, but if you\'re not ...then you\'re just another one of those millions :]
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Originally posted by batdude007
Big shot, no way...
I know enough, but I\'m no big shot...
I\'m spelling impared, so what. When scripting every thing I make is duble checked and debuged.
By the way... Albert Einstien couldn\'t drive. Didn\'t stop him from be one of the worlds greatest thinkers! And yes, there were cars back then! :D
I said I\'m not that good. I\'m not comparing myself to Albert Einstien. I\'m just saying that its not fair to judge someone on one thing if it is irrelevant to thier abillities.
Under no circumstances am I stating I am a great programmer, I\'m not. :]
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Originally posted by PartyBoy
actually Albert Einstein was quite bad at maths in school aswell or so ive heard but there we go some irrelevent information for you
FYI, Albert Einstein was a grade-A student in almost every subject.
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My reason for judging people\'s programming skills by their spelling is quite simply that you write obscenely much when programming, and also read sadisticly much.
Not that I\'m discriminating you because you are spelling-impaired or whatever, but it just doesn\'t fit my view of programming, sort of like a blind person playing computer games.
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batdude, this is mainly your inspiration.
I\'m now 18, and I started my whole programming carrer when I was 14. Before that, I only PLAYED. I did \"Hello world!\" and other primitive progs at your age, and you know what: I don\'t care! I only feel pity for you, as you have surely lost your childhood - but if it\'s good for you...
I know you feel yourself big now. It is simple psychology: you can (probably) do things what way older people than you can do, so you consider yourself mentally at their level. Well, I tell you, because you say some \"magic\" words, that the majority just marks as \"only doable by super-good programmers\", or try to shout as loud as you can that you are a Linux geek, won\'t get you in their world. I can even say things about programming, that you would just stare at with open mouth. So, with your words: \"To me your a newbie\" - completely.
If you were truly a really good programmer, then you wouldn\'t have shouted so loud... With this style you can only make yourself look ridiculous.
Sorry about this, but I just don\'t like little kids think they are bigguns. And I\'m not just judging you \"on one thing\". A personality is not one thing.
If you still don\'t get what I tried to say, look at Rulzern\'s posts - I just got it to know, he is 15, and I considered him at least 18 (I just picked someone, but I have seen an other 14 year old \"newbie\" who was way more mature than you).
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Greetings,
E.
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Originally posted by Caldazar
Originally posted by PartyBoy
actually Albert Einstein was quite bad at maths in school aswell or so ive heard but there we go some irrelevent information for you
FYI, Albert Einstein was a grade-A student in almost every subject.
umm...actually i agree with party boy, Albert Einstein actually did do rather badly at school.
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hmm, i seem to recall that time is something entirely engineered / percieved and only important to human beings... age is not the mother of wisdom nor of skill, for sure there are prodigies out there, and more kudos to them if they actually apply what they have in a beneficial manner...
As for myself I\'m just posting my two cents worth :D :P
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Age matters only in that experience matters in a given field. Older people generally have more experience in their chosen field, so they often do better. Also, maturity sometimes increases with age (though this seems to happen less in America.)
My spelling and grammar change depending on haste, and the grammar of those around me. The worse theirs gets, the better mine gets.
As for Einstein, he had conflicts with his teacher: correcting the teacher is not always a good strategy. Not doing algebra homework because you are working on calculus is also a bad strategy. The majority of people who do badly in math are just bad at it, not so far ahead that they are bored.
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Gee el, thanks, I guess. :p
It really is true though, most skilled programmers, seem to have good typing skills. I know a lot of very young people who are very skilled with computers, programming or otherwise. A lot of them can\'t spell english to save their life, but they aren\'t programmers either...
I also know a few \"programmers\" who actually can\'t spell, they are often called script kiddies in the circles where I spend my time. It really isn\'t intended as stereotyping, but it is based on personal experience.
I don\'t really think age has much to do with anything, as long as you are between 8 and 25 (and edeucated as a programmer), I\'ve met capable programmers down to the age of 8-9, not really state-of-the-art code, but fully capable of making stuff that works. If you are above 25 and work as a programmer; I would say that you atleast have to be a professional programmer. Maybe not the worlds best, but you can program by-the-book.
Wow, I\'m so tired that I am just writing a whole lot of gibberish, please ignore me.
PS: Sorry for spelling errors and such, as I mentioned, really tired.