@SimonSheehan @MichaelFrank It is awesome. I played through the mod when it came out and the EAP is even better. If you liked anything from Half-Life before, you'll love this EAP version
Yeah, well, for me, Black Mesa almost compares to Duke Nukem Forever, which was a disappointment. But Black Mesa is just amazing. They really did everything right IMHO
@OliverSalzburg I really liked, rephrase that, i never got really ticked off at half life :-) they managed to blend puzzel, story, shooter, together , plus ease of control, stealth, limited bugs, and did not act like (although i was) a fully linear world. Plus they gave me enough ammo :-)
The ammo thing I still do not quite understand how that works. IF they are trying to scare the crap out of you, then they only provide enough ammo to make 80% headshots. How am i going to be Scared AND be a perfect shot at the same time? Truely scared is when you unload 2 clips on a shadow of a door that opens up :-)
Luckily in half-life you could actually kill a monster with that.
In resident evil 6 you could unload a whole clip into a dude and he finnnly falls down becuse you just cant walk with that much lead holding you down:-)
I was playing single player with the Partner AI (totally out of ammo with 6 guns), I keep pushing the "go get em" button, and even the AI would say "no way", "uh uh" , "not going there" , "not right now"
I'm trying to get a single file to play on my raspberry pi. I am attempting to tinker with High Level Assembly, and C, and have gotten them to compile properly. I'm just having trouble actually getting them onto the device its self. I have a feeling that there is a way to do it like the Arduino, ...
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I see Snowden is now looking for more money to talk about the Aliens , , , The what? lets see you spend months revealing what we already know, that there are spies, and that the patriot act not only gave the goverment unlimited peek&Seek, but it was not "news" at that moment that there were aliens in collusion with the government :-) Smatter running out of appearances money .
Oh yea sorry i forgot about the proof of aliens, but i am available for interviews.
Do Epson inkjet printers consider themselves "out of ink" after a predefined number of pages, or after the ink actually runs outs (or comes close)?
Some people claim it's a predetermined number of pages. Thus if your pages just have a little text on them, the printer will claim it is out of ink...
(Obviously I'm referring to the cheap printers where that is the case - the separate ink tank printers are a different matter and can legitimately refuse to print.)
There are at least 2 "future" sci-fi flicks from long before these cards existed, that portrayed the government using a ID and payment cards of this type to track the location of all the humans.
In at least one, the people were trying to run from the goverment, and were being picked up at every kiosk and turnstile , and vending machine , etc. as if all the machines would then be imbuded with this ability, then transfered to central government agencies.
the RFID theft deterrant systems must be able to work about 6Feet away, but not through tin hats and mylar.
makes you wonder when the crooks are ever going to get actually smart :-) and defeat such systems.
i thought it was pretty revealing to see criminals (on video) using car remote scanners to hop right into cars. I knew they can scan my garage door in seconds to open it up.
Luckily around here they just dont do that stuff, even for jokes. Cause it would be really funny everyone comming home to thier garage doors all open down the whole street.
Cant pick up a dog from the shelter around here, without it being chipped.
Chipped pets is a great idea, but i am not doing mine, because of FOD (forign object damage) the possibility that as a foreign object they cannot mask it from being rejected by the immune system, and causing that problem.
If it works out really well in pets, with no rejection, then it should be easy enough to apply to humans, Like always it can start out with a different premise and scare tacktics. To keep your child from being kidnapped, and so the schools can keep track of them, etc. Which of course will include to keep your child from being enslaved by terrorist sex slave ganstas.. then eventually everyone will grow up with one implanted like animals
Yea have not seen a single report of big festering infections around them :-) increased white blood counts, and compromised immune systems. It certannly would happen to humans if it is not coated in some specialty materials.
Then the idea that humans will have the body fighting such things for ages longer than pets would.
Like also depicted in these Sci-fi flicks, back alley ID removal
I think most people are all OK with most of this stuff, but they forget what percentage of years each of these countries spends in "war" times, and how such methods would be applied in a wartime situation or even simple occupations.
although i am sure we can get some conspircy nuts , freaking out about how the aliens will use it :-)
@Psycogeek What? Why? There is little difference between the immune systems of dogs and humans. Both are quite capable of rejecting foreign bodies and both do, and will. If the animals can accept the chips, then the chips have been specifically designed to circumvent the immune response.
some human implantation methods require drugs that dampen or stop the immune system altogether, so if they have the mateirals worked out, they must not apply to everything? like hip replacements.
On the other hand they are growing skin right on some of the stuff they wedge into humans, like for facial reconstructions. But do we know all the possible problems from that fully? or can some of it be sorta hidden, between just didnt work as planned and anti-rejection drugs.
They do it like patching a plaster hole in your walls :-)
there are thousands of sick failures of FOD in humans, most of them from the lesser surgeons, cross country surgeries (tits & ass) and many totally fudged up faces from spastic surgery.
Pictures to ghastly to post. but interesting to see :-)
@Psycogeek Yes, exactly. And the same would apply to humans. Or pretty much any mammal. Fruitflies even. The basics of the immune system are universal.
I know my body rejects stuff :-) they used fishing line (type) stiching in my finger, months later pop another end of it comes out of my finger, i pull it out a month later another one pops up, all crimpled up under the skin, like the body had some way of not just attacking it, but "working" it out.
3 rounds of that later, with FOD comming out of my finger, it is 99.9% the same as the finger that did not get sliced up.
In Word VBA, I am going to write a macro to convert a number to currency format. I am a beginner at this programming stuff, and no formal training or study. I would like to check my strategy with someone.
To take numbers like 1005.1
I would guess a reasonable approach would be to first add decimals for the cases (1005, 1005.1 and 1005.15), then add commas for numbers longer than 3. Finally, I'll append a "$" to the front. Is this a reasonable approach?
don't worry about the numerical calculation of dblPayment = Pmt(dblRate / 12, intTerm * 12, -dblPrincipal) in that code sample; focus on the fact that you've got a number as input and you want it formatted
the real magic is Format(dblPayment, strFormat) having previously declared strFormat as listed
but you'll need to use CDbl(whateverString) to convert your Range.Text (String) to a double, first
Digit placeholder. Display a digit or nothing. If the expression has a digit in the position where the # appears in the format string, display it; otherwise, display nothing in that position.
This symbol works like the 0 digit placeholder, except that leading and trailing zeros aren't displayed if the number has the same or fewer digits than there are # characters on either side of the decimal separator in the format expression.
> (0)
Digit placeholder. Display a digit or a zero. If the expression has a digit in the position where the 0 appears in the format string, display it; otherwise, display a zero in that position.
If the number has fewer digits than there are zeros (on either side of the decimal) in the format expression, display leading or trailing zeros. If the number has more digits to the right of the decimal separator than there are zeros to the right of the decimal separator in the format expression, round the number to as many decimal places as there are zeros. If the number has more digits to the …
So, you need to modify strFormat to use .00 instead of .## as the code example showed.
It would be no trouble at all for you if you were a beginner at VBA but experienced at researching problems. More likely than not, you would not even need to ask a question to someone else; you'd be able to solve it on your own -- and much, much faster, too. Never guess when you're coding; it's much faster to look it up.
Currency formatting is such a common problem that there pretty much has to be a solution out there, either built-in to the runtime (as in this case), or with some pre-canned solution you can find on the Internet. Implementing your own string parsing and formatting in this case is very painful and unnecessary.
When you get that sense of "someone else must have done this before", 99.9% of the time, you're right.
So, look it up.
Funny thing is, before you asked, I myself had no clue how to do this in VBA, if you sat me down with a pen and paper.
I probably won't remember it when I need to do it in some future project either, but I know how to look it up.
Here's a problem I don't have to consider at the moment. You both mentioned was I needing to check before formatting, a cursory look makes me think that's what they're trying to do here: stackoverflow.com/questions/13653063/…
@BradyTrainor Can you elaborate a little on what you mean? Are you saying that you think you need to check that it's a valid number before you try to format it?
No, I don't need to, that was just a tangential aside that I had happened upon something related to what I thought you were asking about earlier.
I don't anticipate needing to check if a number /should/ be formatted. I only refer to a value that I know I want to format. And the Format does this, perfectly.
I mean, if you try to format it as currency and it's a string like "Hello", it probably will just do nothing, but you might want to test it just to make sure...
Like googling "word vba format as currency" hadn't worked out so well. I imagine because Word is not as commonly macro'd as Excel. I had probably tried your "msdn vba *" search method too, but who knows what I used for keyword then.
@Bob So I think I've found the "Holy Grail" of chat apps for a guild in an online game. Don't know if it would be a suitable replacement for Gitter.im for us; probably not.
"Due to the rude, inappropriate, and mean-spirited moderating of the Superuser StackExchange site (a sentiment apparently shared by many people), I regret that I will be limiting my contributions there. I do not share those values. Hopefully things will improve, but based on recent behavior by some of the moderators on Superuser, I find it unlikely.
The other StackExchange sites seem to attract much better quality and more friendly moderators, and thus have healthier communities." - a users profile, we probably arent missing much though
ChatWing is nice and flexible. It has embed code (which will work on any site that lets you embed arbitrary JS); it has a "pop-out" (as a window); it has "open as a new tab" (via direct link); it has rich text; it has images, links, and video; it has moderator functionality; it has Android and iPhone apps (largely demanded feature on my guild); etc.
> Sadly, I’ve become soured by the SE network. It started great, but went downhill. Some mods are too aggressive/bias, policies are arbitrarily/capriciously/selectively applied, and some users treat the sites as MMOGs, “rep-whoring”, copying others’ work, and posting random guesses to game the system by abusing and exploiting auto-bounty assignment.
> I care(d) about the integrity of the site, so I feel anywhere that allows such disreputable behavior isn’t somewhere worth staying. My OCD not withstanding, I won’t be contributing much here anymore and will find somewhere else to help people…
@DragonLord Individual people are always going to get upset. You can't please everyone. However, as long as it's not a widespread problem, I wouldn't worry.
SE as a whole is based around a philosophy that could almost be called socialist (the good of the many outweighs the good of the few), and is less focused on helping individual posters like a forum would be; once that philosophy trickles down into the rules, some people can't abide it.
I bet we could parse strings of the format Some Place, CA where CA is some 2-letter state code, and extract those, and count them under 'United States' to bolster that number more
then 'Bangalore' needs to go under India, since there are thousands from Bangalore too
still, United States + San Francisco, CA > India + Bangalore, India
Do Epson inkjet printers consider themselves "out of ink" after a predefined number of pages, or after the ink actually runs outs (or comes close)?
Some people claim it's a predetermined number of pages. Thus if your pages just have a little text on them, the printer will claim it is out of ink...
