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Wanted to quickly add a side thought: The ability to 'anchor' a control to a unit in the world should not just be a 'nice thing to have', it should be (and in my mind must be) a requirement of the GUI system.

Open Source: No GLUT, GLAUX: No We are using a custom rendering engine written using OpenGL. We use quite a few OpenGL extensions, but the engine is still too alpha to release any information about which ones or what the exact requirements will be.

Yah, we saw it here, but it didn't fully eclipse, just had a red shadow pass over it (the earth was causing the sun's light to refract and hit the moon, ions in the atmosphere caused only the red component to get through).

I have a live in girlfriend...and they are expensive, and they are time consuming, and they will demand far more of your time and attention then you generally want to give up Despite all that though, it's really not so bad

Because church is brainwashing? You actually listen to some guy in a suit who tells you that if you don't live life exactly like he tells you to, you are going to hell? Especially since history has told us he is probably one of the most amoral people IN the church. Oh, and I have read the Bible. Remember, I was forced to go to church when I was young...I have been shoveled the same crap my entire life about religion and how if we don't do exactly what the sunday school teacher told us, and if we didn't except Jesus right then, we would go to hell. That's enough to scare any 8 year old in to believing anything you say, yet Christians use these kind of scare tactics daily to get little kids to "commit to the faith". It's really very sick. Regardless, this thread isn't about religion, it's about parents

Over 90% of identity theft has nothing to do with 'hacking'. It's all very brute force and terribly easy to prevent if you know the dangers. For instance, over 25% of identity theft happens when people hand their credit cards to service people (waiters, cashiers, etc). It's terribly easy for some people to remember your card, number and address if you show them your license! Credit card number databases are NOT connected to the outside world to even be hacked, as defined by laws that prevent them from being linked to the outside world. The only 'hacking' that can go on is if you a) Have a key logger on your system and buy something online Buy something online from an insecure or unknown site c) Use one of those corner store ATM's (or any ATM not directly maintained by your bank, or another reputable bank) d) Not pay attention when you are waving around your card in front of people (consider this 'hacking' reality ) Hate to break this to everyone, but identity theft is almost ALWAYS a result of the victim not properly securing and handling their cards. Oh, and another random figure: 50% of all identity theft is commited by family and close friends. Some food for thought

Though I would interject to say hey to Dario, and that Java DOES NOT force you to write proper OO code You can still very much break OO idioms if you know how to manipulate the language correctly, not to mention the language has primitive types with box/unboxing (very un-OOish). If you want real pure OO, try Smalltalk or Ada...neither of which do I like. Oh, and C# owns Java blind folded with its hands tied behind its back

I don't get along with my parents at all, so I guess I would say I am disrispectful. My parents are basically religion driven bigets who think they are better the nothers, and because I don't have fall in line like a good little sheep, they say I am going to hell...sooo, I don't really deal with my parents much When I say my parents here I mean my grandfather for the most part, as my 'mom' (my grandmother) passed away....I had a decent relationship with her, until I turned 15 and learned that I could think for myself and didn't have to be brainwashed by my parents or their church. Was very liberating and all. Whats funny is, my fiance is a PK (preachers kid) and has dealt with the same stuff I did, only ten fold. She, much like me, is barely on speaking terms with her parents.

Paper money is already going out of style. The future is plastic...either plastic linked to your bank account, or plastic in the form of credit lines. Everyone will pay for nearly everything with plastic in the next 25 years. I know this because it's what I do for a living, write credit card processing software. I can't begin to tell you the size of the current card market and how fast its growing yearly. Large corporations are moving away from paper invoices and moving towards card based purchase and sale systems. As they move, so does the general public. Banks are realizing how much lower their operating costs can be when they move their customers to card based money access solutions. The real problem in all of this, unfortunatley, is identify theft. Though I would expect in the next 20-30 years, that will slowly fade as the banks gets smarter and people in general get smarter when it comes to managing and securing their cards.

The imagining your audience in their underwear really does work...it will bring a smile to your face and loosen you up. That's really the key to all those "do this, do that, imagine this" stuff that people tell you. It's not REALLY to do those things, it's to loosen you up. I used to do a lot of competition debate and speaking and it's very easy once you get over the fact that no one is going to laugh at you, and if they do, look directly at them and call them out, right in front of everyone with some kind of comment. It will emberass the hell out of them and take all the focus off of you and put it on them. I have had to do it to hecklers during speeches, and it works.

I think it looks awsome. Or course, the GUI elements need to be more "themed", perhaps some stone or wood textures or whatever, I will leave that up to the art folks Also, that's a pretty snazzy mini-map, kudo's to whoever coded that

Yah, that was actually REALLY funny. BIFF, if anyone is curious, is the name of Bioware's file format (Bioware Information File Format I beleive). It's a hierarchical file format that, as far as I know, has been used in some form or another in every Bioware RPG, including KoToR.

OS X's kernel (Darwin) is a variant of BSD. I have Mac OS X on my laptop and plan to ensure the engine builds on it before release (its just an issue of finding time to do so) I don't foresee any great problems with doing this tho. Regarding the FBSD port, I wish you luck, I run FreeBSD on one of my server boxes and don't really consider it suitable for my desktop due to hardware support. FreeBSD is excellent as a server platform but I find it lagging behind Linux in the hardware support stakes Actually, OS X is a Mach kernel. Based directly on DEC UNIX's Mach system. It uses the FreeBSD userland. I have the nvidia drivers setup and working perfectly on my FreeBSD box. Yes, Linux has slightly better hardware support...but only because anyone with a C compiler and some fingers can get a change/driver checked in to that tree, no matter how crappy it is.

Now why would it do that, when the FreeBSD kernel is leaps and bounds ahead of the Linux kernel in stability? Oh sure, the Linux kernel might have some fancy wizbang features...but how many Linux kernels in the last three years have brought peoples machines to their knees, corrupting partitions, making drivers that used to work, fail totally? The Linux development model is way to "fly by the seat of our pants", which is why there is one million and one different distro's and everyone large company that uses Linux has multiple patch levels of the kernel and user land. Not so with FreeBSD, as nearly every large company that uses it (and yes, there are several), use it out of the box with no custom patching.

And if I have my way, it will run on FreeBSD as well