Have you seen the screenshots of the new eye candy they implemented? Looks amazing.

Well, I was reading the ThinkGeek.com fortune page on my computer (which has a crapy WiFi card which gives painfuly slow connection speeds). And I thought, \"boy, wouldn\'t it be great if someone made a program could download an \'x\' amount of fortunes, and let you read them at your leasure.

After not realy searching much and not finding such a program, I thought, \"Why don\'t I just write one myself. After all, my C++ skills need improvement.\"

And so I did.

So.. Here it is:
http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload3/FortuneStealer_0.4.zip

For information on how to use it, consult the Read_Me file.

Oh, and if you want it to not stop no matter how many times it found a fortune that you already have, just put in \'0\' (zero) when it asks \"Stop after how many repeats.\"

P.S.
I\'m writing a \"Reader\" program, which will allow you more control over the fortunes when you read them (you can select fortunes by number, or make it give you a random fortune, or what not), but I couldn\'t find a way to take HTML code and make it output as normal text on the screen (or at least write it to a different file as regular text).

If anyone knows of any methods to do that, please inform me.

*edit*

Feedback?

Double-post? ;) -Kary

So, I\'ve been accepted into StonyBrook University, and SUNY Geneseo. I\'ll just discus what I like and dislike about the two schools, and you tell me what you think is better. Or if you have attended, or know someone who has attended either, please inform me of what you/they think about it.

Oh, and I\'m planing to major in Computer Science.


Stony Brook University
http://www.stonybrook.edu

SBU is a near by school, and is one of the centers of the SUNY (State University of New York) system. They pride themselves on being a research center as much as they do on being a school.

Pros:
-Close to home. (A 20 minute drive.)
-Affiliated with the Brookheaven National Laboratory (a world renouned research center). Many internship oportunities from there go to SBU students. Also that\'s where my father works... So that\'s kind of good, I guess.
-Is a research center itself. So I may gain valuable experience right on campus.
-Very strong Computer Science program.
-Possible to attain a PhD in CS.

Cons:
-It\'s a nice place to work, and a nice place to learn... But from the perspective of living there, it resembles a prison.
-Is it too close to home?
-Alot of Russian proffs, which in itself isn\'t a bad thing... But many know my parents... And my parents would use that to their advantage (as in trying to monitor what I do in class, what I do outside of class, etc.). Living with them now is stressful enough.
-For a University that is as good as people say it is, it was sure easy to get into. Just had to sign my name and give them my school transcript. And I know a few people from school that got in, that don\'t realy even deserve to graduate... Maybe that\'s just for the undergrads, and the Masters and PhD programs are more selective?


SUNY Geneseo
http://www.geneseo.edu

This school is on the other side of NY state, roughly a 7hr drive in the best conditions (but I think it\'s possible to take a train.) Though it is technicaly a \"college\", as opposed to a \"University\", it is one of the most selective in the country and rumer has it that it\'s trying to expand into a research center.

Pros:
-Far from home. Like I said, my parents are control freaks, so it will be nice to not live near them anymore. It\'ll also teach me how to live by myself.
-Very selective college. Was a pain trying to get accepted.
-Beutiful campus. Also has a nearby park where you can go hiking, biking, camping, etc. Not sure if it\'s a public park or if it belongs to the school...
-Not far from Rochester. So this may give me a few good internship opertunities. I think Xerox is located thare, not sure though.
- When I tell people what colleges I\'ve been accepted too, if they know what Genseo is they always give me the \"Oh yeah, look at Mr. Bigshot\" type of reaction. I guess this means that the school has a good reputation...

Cons:
-Like i said before, It\'s a \"College\".
-I hope it\'s not too far from home.
-My parents don\'t like the idea of me going there, they\'re trying to shove me into SBU. But then again, who cares what they think...
-I\'ll miss my not-yet-in-college (and, wasn\'t-able-to-graduate-from-school) friends.
-They don\'t allow you to have a car on campus during your freshman year. Not like I have a car yet, but you know, just saying...
-The campus is not isolated from the local community. Not that the communitis are bad or anything (they are prety good actualy), I just don\'t want a bunch of middleschoolers running around my campus!
-Not sure how strong they are in their CS department... I\'ll know more when I visit, but I still have doubts...
-Not possible to attain anything past Bachelors Degree in CS. As of now at least.
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So, what do you think?

Right now I\'m running a Debian and because it cant recognize my videocard, I can\'t go beyond 800*600 as my resolution. So I\'m hoping there is a file that stores the \"available\" resolutions that I could manualy edit?

I\'ve checked out the files in /etc/X11 , but found nothing good there.

P.S. I can\'t instal a video card driver because Debian uses their own version of XFree, which is incompatable with the version ATI wants you to use.

I remember checking the information about my linux... And it one of the things that shocked me was that when idling it took up slightly more than 500mb, with many many daemons (I believe that\'s what they are called) running in the background. I tried killing some of them, but quickly realized that unlike in windoze it\'s not a good idea (my desktop froze up and I had to alt+f5 out of it).

But what realy startled me is that in windoze, If I were to use anywhere near 500mb the system would be runing at a snails pase, where as with linux (FC3) it was doing just fine.

Comments?

Well... Everyone knows that the weather in Australia is the opposite of what it is in the northern hemesphere, as the wise-man Homer once exclaimed \"So hot snow fall up?\".

Well.. Here comes my half-dimwhited question...

In Australia, what are the \"summer\" months, and what are the \"winter months\". I mean, is summer and winter still have the same order as they do in the north?

This is prety hard... I guess the easies way to ask would be \"Does it snow during what you call summer, or durring what you call winter?\".

I\'ve thought about it, and I think this is how I\'m gona break up the classes:

Class Board () { // Stores information about the baord}

Class Player() {//Stores the player controls, spawn points, movement boundries, etc.}

and

Class NPC() {//Stores information about computer controled things}


The one oncern I have now is how would the classes interact, namely how would Player, and NPC conect to the Board class? One thing that comes to mind is passing functions that return private variables into other functions as arguments... Would that work?

Here is an example:




Class A(){
     char a;
public:
     char get_a(){return a;}
     void set_a(char x){a = x;}
};


Class B(){
     char b;
public:
     char get_b(){return b;}
     void set_b(char x){a=x;}
};

int main(){
     A objA;
     B objB;

     objA.set_a(\'x\');
     objB.set_b(objA.get_a());

     cout << objB.get_b();

     return 0;
}



When compiled and run, will the program write \"x\" on the screen, or will I get an error?