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Number 2 without question is the easier of the three. I could easily see someone programming number 2 in a day. Number 1 is highly dependent on the content/quality, so that /could/ be less than a day or more than a year, and the third I could not see being programmed in a day at all.

They are making a reference to the badge eating badgers that ate all the badges (Except a few).

I wouldn't call '95 a new programming language! I'm afraid I've never used that before in my life, so I can't help you out.

Buddy, you are contradicting yourself here. You say Java is easier to program than Flash (Which explains why all the amateurs prefer Flash over Java! ), but everyone knows Perl is harder to program than PHP. So... Easy:Hard::Hard:Easy That anology doesn't make sense unless you were comparing them some other way. Honestly, I have no clue in the world how you could think the reason people use Flash is for its runtime and performance (I'm ignorant on this matter though) but what I do know, is the easier something tends to be, the more crap that gets written for it. Examples: PHP and Flash. I believe you have the anology correct, but you are contradicting yourself by saying Java is easier than Flash. OR (Using your logic) (Java:Flash::Perl:PHP, we can reason you are saying PHP is the fast one as its the similiar one to Flash which is also the fast one) Slow:Fast::Slow:Fast Also you say Flash is more efficent (I assume thats what performance/runtime means...?) than Java but using that logic you also say PHP is faster than Perl (I've seen statistics although not ones I've made of my own, but anyways Perl is always faster). Which is wrong. PHP can't even be compiled.

Hmm, thats interesting. Not to turn this into a religion debate, but from a Christian point of view (Hell doesn't exist in atheism), you go to heaven/hell after you die. So either you die twice (Physical state and then mental state I suppose?) or you go to hell before you die, and then die on the trip there. If Indians really do work for 1$ an hour, I don't find it so unreasonable.

So does PHP, what's your point? (If the point was just that it has the stigma, fair enough.) Java doesn't have a negative stigma. Flash does. Although I suppose my argument is a little invalid considering when they decided to make a game in Java (98 or 99), flash didn't have the stigma.

As far as I'm aware, if you want to have a non-text game on the browser, it must be in flash or java if you don't want the user to install anything fancy. Flash has a negative stigma due to all the amateurs programming in it. Although I don't know the reasoning why they decided Java over Flash. Perhaps its easier to program in or perhaps its more open-source. Maybe Java is more efficient than flash. Didn't you answer this question yourself when you brought up runescape?

A cookie?

Not to code, but to be employed.

Forgot about that feature. Sometimes it gets so warm you even have to put a book between your legs and the laptop! And that was a pretty much idle laptop as well! Not much of a laptop man myself so perhaps I shouldn't talk out of ignorance.

OP, About 2., when I installed Ubuntu I didn't install any drivers and if drivers were installed, it did it automatically when formatting to it. I was using server non-gui mode. Like Neil said, I as well would recommend Ubuntu and as he also said, use the server version OS. Its always good to know how to use a CLI as if you seriously are wanting to having dedicated servers for webpages, that is a must. [ot] Neil, what is wrong with using an old computer (Not a laptop mind you) to host a dedicated server? Thats what I'm currently doing running 24/7 and it never crashes or overheats and can easily sustain enough people for my need. As well, my computer has ran for at very least 11000+ hours before it became one and has been always (Excluding the video card, but last I checked, servers don't require much of that.) stable and the 11000+ hours wasn't just idling like my server is now, but running at 100% CPU for most of that time. Is that bad practice to have such a used (But stable) computer running a server? [/ot]

I liked that comic too.

The internet by far has the greatest percent in English. Also, nearly everything that is a new word is an English word. Why? The English language has dominated the technological market for quite some time. Not just computers, also space terms. Its actually rather funny, considering alot of languages (Not just European ones) have taken words from English. Out of all honesty, learning English can only be a benefit as its becoming the universal language. About your French man who wants to become a programmer. Look at this statistic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France 34% of France speak English. I'd be willing to bet that out of that majority of PHP programmers in France, that they are in the 34%. Similiar statistics apply to other countries. Germany: 51% English speakers. Japans only foreign main language is English (But can't find a number) China is the same as Japan. Austria: 58% India having English as its second official language. (British ownership.) Spain: 27% These countries below have probably a near 100% English speaking population. U.S. U.K. Canada Australia New Zealand Also if you watch the Amazing Race you will notice that no matter where the contestants go, they can always find tourists for directions in /English/. Although sometimes they have to try several tourists but that might not only be due to lack of language. So PHP doesn't need a language change, the person needs to learn a language.

Hey cags, I hope you didn't take offense to my post about first impressions.

Thorpe, the original funny one was "Will dance for food", now that guy in the picture made a parody on it by saying "Will code html for food". Although personally, I wouldn't want that guy to code HTML for me. First impressions say alot.

Only 99.999%? I would say 100% with no rounding. Text based games are extremely limited as 1.) They are harder on the server than other MMOs (The server processes the code, not the client.) 2.) Graphics can't compete. 3.) Requires more bandwidth. Now thats pretty bad and probably explains why there is no such thing as an entertaining text based game as of yet (To my opinion and many others). Now the question is, why the heck do so many people make them and all* fail miserably? 1.) People buy generic text based software and modify it a little to fit their preferences. 2.) People steal generic text based software and modify it a little to fit their preferences. 3.) PHP is the easiest programming language to learn and understand. * is defined by 99.99% of text based games.

This is my method of checking how long it takes to load a page: $starttime = microtime(); $startarray = explode(" ", $starttime); $starttime = $startarray[1] + $startarray[0]; $variable = "(30 KB file here)"; echo $variable; $endtime = microtime(); $endarray = explode(" ", $endtime); $endtime = $endarray[1] + $endarray[0]; $totaltime = $endtime - $starttime; $totaltime = round($totaltime,5); echo "$totaltime"; Gets around to .2 seconds. That of course is not useful timing. I assume this is a problem with Apache as I can declare the text as a variable without any lag but once I echo it, thats when it lags. If I'm wrong, please do move this topic. Now if I was to reduce the size to 20KB it drops to .18 seconds and if I bring it to 10KB it drops to 0.00022 seconds. Clearly there is something wrong once I get to a higher display size as 0.00022 is perfectly acceptable but .18 seconds is awful just to display. Also, I looked up problems with apache and swapping/lack of memory is a problem so for your information: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1544152 1083376 460776 0 117748 620516 -/+ buffers/cache: 345112 1199040 Swap: 6152176 0 6152176 Nothing is swapped in this RAM usage and surely 460 MB of free RAM is enough to display 30 KB of text. So hopefully one of you guys know what could be the problem. Thanks. EDIT: Using Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition 32 bit.

Yup, thats what I meant by. Thanks for the link, as it cleared up why they are so bloated.

It seems like all browsers these day suck. They were supposed to be improved but they have only gotten worse. IE8 crashes a lot and has many, many problems with flash. So I go to IE7, no problems. Then firefox 3.5. What was the improvment over FF2.0? FF3.5 also happens to crash some amount (Not to the degree of IE8) but FF2.0 worked flawlessly for me. Maybe I should try out Chrome, but after so many years, you would think someone would have made a browser that just works. Also another thing, what the heck is with the browsers headers? They are HUGE.

Are you sure the ports are all matching?

[offtopic] I thought CS2 = Counter strike 2. So ignored my last post. I don't know what CS2 means besides Counter Strike 2. [/offtopic] EDIT: How do you get that offtopic mode working?

1. Flawlessly? I'm not sure how WINE works, but I'd imagine it has some penalty to run it, meaning that using WINE over MS would result in a lower frame rate. 2. CS2 is a highly supported game. Try a less supported game. 3. Probably 99.9% of the CS2 community wouldn't know how to get WINE (Or a Linux OS for that matter) to work.

Something tells me that movie didn't win most entertaining award? Or any award for that matter?

Alright, thanks. Think thats all.

No no, I mean now if I had 2 apache servers (The servers will have the same files as well. So lets say both servers are used as a calculator and right now one is getting overloaded so I need to split the work load of that one server unto the other), not 1 apache and 1 game. It doesn't matter what the ports are anymore (Can't be 1-1000 though), now its just a question of how would I get 1 domain over X amount of servers? So ultimately when someone connects to IP:5550 (As it would be with google.com:80 or whatever the default port is) it will randomly (Doesn't have to be randomly, but atleast some method of balancing the requests to the 2 servers) pick one of my 2 servers and then respond with the same IP:Port.