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how does that make my post wrong? and actually, with no air resistance it wont. just like with no air resistance a ball thrown straight up(or up at all, it doesnt even need to be straight) will come back down at exactly the same speed.

mB is 1,000,024? i know about a kB being 1024, but i would have expected mB to be either 1,024,000 or 1,024^2.

pffft. thanks for the info, but i really want to know if there is an efficient way to program it. also, it needs to be random, no go on the animated gif.

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im guessing were assuming he survives things like pressure and heat and all that? he would pass though and start moving "up" on the other side untill the gravity slowed him enough to pull him back, like the bungie jumper. he would eventually stop due to friction with air.

time.

I have taken two, year long, highschool classes in programming, one was C++ at the basic level, the other was Java at the AP level. During my second year I wanted to make a program that just displays cool moving graphics things in lots of colors. Something similar can be seen in the "we'll be back soon" screen for That 70's Show, or as "plasma" (i think) in a package called "really slick screensavers". The way I went about doing it was to make a bunch of randomly moving Bezier curves that were random colors(in c++). I was going to flood fill the space between them with their respective colors and use an algorithm to make it fade smoothly from one to the other. But i couldnt get my flood fill fast enough. I tried doing it pixel by pixel, both recursively and non, and I tried checking how much space between one edge and the next and doing a line instead of pixels. both were MUCH slower than I would need, so I was left wondering how they do things like video games, and if that's too complicated, I was wondering if there is a way to do what I was trying to do a bit faster than one frame every forty seconds or so. Is there some technique they use to do such things? I would think it would be a relatively simple matter to flood fill a blank area on a screen. After all, paint does it in about a half a second. Any hints?

4 bit binary? hex is base 16. might help if i knew exactly what a bit equals i guess : P (isnt a bit just 8 digits or something like that?)

now lets move on to hex! : )

i only meant its bs that someone would write and send out a virus out of interest. i know some people write them to learn, i was saying all the ones you would have heard of weren't written out of curiosity.

im missing the relevance. unless, that is, you were trying to support my argument. people between 13 and 17 tend to have teen angst (mad at the world) and people from 18 to 25 tend to to still have a stupid, playing around, kind of attitude(as a generalization). as for doing it because it interests you, thats bs. maybe you write one out of interest and test it on your machine or home network, but if you send it out you have an agenda or you have problems.

im guessing you mean virus writers do it to get back at the corporations, or something along those lines? id say that some of them do it for that, maybe a lot of them. but i know that some are just mad at the world and do it to take out their frustrations. virus writers generally want their programs to target the largest possible audience, so if linux starts to become a large audience...

i never said linux wasn't more secure, i said they would make the viruses anyway. if you dont think it would become a problem you are naive. thats all there is to it. they will find a way around your security, always. (and no, i never said "system file protection is going to stop a virus writer on Xp" thats my whole point, nothing will stop the virus writers.)

thats great! however, windows wont let me delete system files either, that doesnt stop nimda from doing it. nor does it stop nimda from deleting things in the MBR and ruining my harddrive. it may be that linux security is much better than that of windows, but the virus writers are very good at finding ways around such things. i am aware of the fact that right now there are very few viruses for linux, but if they accounted for 90% of all computers like windows does the viruses would begin to focus on them.

so whats wrong about my first one? like you seem to be saying, viruses arent a big problem. and like i said at the end, it WILL become an issue if linux starts to really compete. i dont care what safety features you have built in, the smart-but-angry crowd will find a way around it.

what i know of windows/linux pros and cons: 1. linux makes viruses/spyware/adware much less of a problem because most are designed to target windows machines (which will change if linux starts to compete) 2. gaming on linux sucks, you can get things like wine but i have been told it hurts performance. most gamers dont like that. 3. linux has cool icons that will stand up and run away when you try to click them! 4. linux support/help SUCKS. its designed by geeks who assume that others have the same level of intuition and knowledge as they do. some of the linux programs (like open office) i have used have had help built in but it sucked and was not very helpful, i ended up figuring it out on my own. there isnt really an official place to go for tech support but since its the geeks favorite OS and geeks tend to frequent internet forums, you can usually find help with your problem somewhere online. 5. linux is FREE. greater words have never been spoken. no more throwing hundreds of dollars at microsoft. 6. linux may also be hard to get used to if you have been using windows your whole life. things arent where you expect them to be : P

so is there a reason they say grandfather instead of just father? if you got him before he sired you... are there some implications to the grandfather way that im missing?

me too! i just have to jump a little...

grandfather paradox? wanna fill in us less educated folks?

heres mine: i like warcraft, can you tell?

HA! i got both you beat. 5'2" i never have to duck any branches : D

a=37 b=10 "C"= 1 so if you think about it c=2 could mean a great many things. b could be 11 or 20, a could be 29 or twenty 1's followed by an infinite number of 0's.

im saying instantly.