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<0> At last I've finished the whole UCAS thing- well almost
<1> All unis have replied now
<2> I still haven't heard GoY :/
<2> I'll have to ring UCAS tomorrow.
<1> Sometimes it takes ages- especially if you only got your form in close to the deadline
<2> Yah, I guess I'm at the bottom of the pile for processing :)
<2> But whats weird is.
<2> Some people have been telling me that they didn't receive a letter. It all happened online for them.
<1> The online stuff comes in bursts- sometimes it's quick, sometimes it's slow
<1> like, I had an interview at Manchester, and it was about 2 months before the UCAS site updated
<1> Whereas I was in Nottingham on Wednesday, and it's on the site now
<1> But overall, I'm quite impressed with this online system
<1> Have you had the "we've recieved your letter" application from UCAS yet, or is that not come through yet?
<1> *application" letter
<2> Not come through.
<2> Nothing :/
<1> Ah, give them time... it takes a while
<1> One of my friends who is predicted to get 5A's (if you count general studies) only heard back from her first uni in january- and it was a rejection- and her application was in by mid-october
<2> Pewp :/.
<2> Rejection for what Uni?
<1> I think it was Newcastle
<1> But she was applying for Medicine
<2> 5 A's and a rejection? How the hell does that work.
<1> extreme competion?
<1> *competition
<1> Prolly more people with more work experience/charity work, etc, applying for the same place.
<2> Ah, of course.
<3> 5A's = all A's?
<2> Yeah swx.
<3> same thing here, they basically have a lottery with all the people that have 20.0 (max score) average and/or max score on our SAT-like test ;)
<4> hrm any of you monkeys fluent in shockwave or flash?
<5> flash actionscript is an ecmascript dialect
<5> so the language yes, the library no
<4> mm
<4> i'm looking at a particular site template, but I figure I'll need to add some scrollbars to it...
<5> oh
<4> trying to get a guestimate if that's extreemly difficult or extreemly trivial.
<5> new flash supports honest to god normal css
<5> it's relatively trivial
<5> as long as you're in not flash from the dark ages
<4> well all I know about css is that you can use it for setting colors and fonts and stuff, what does that have to do with scrollbars?
<5> tag.cl*** { overflow: auto; /* scrollbars <3 */ }
<5> i think you don't realize how extensive CSS' idea of styling is
<5> you can control all sorts of wacky ****
<4> nope, not in the slightest...
<5> like how text readers pronounce words
<4> I'm looking at http://www.templatehelp.com/preset/pr_preview.php?i=8908&pr_code=X3Vz3d9T1u312IAC0z0fH4K81HH73v and need to add scrollbars to the second level content panels...
<5> and in what method pagination is supposed to occur
<5> and you can generate ordinals
<5> in css3, you'll be able to attach javascript to events in *css*
<4> huh like formatting events?
<5> yes.
<4> funky
<5> they're called "behaviors."
<5> and they'll let us roll UI widgets without h***le.
<5> div.nonBrokenComboBox { ... }
<5> div.nonBrokenComboBox $onClick div.nonBrokenComboContents { display: box; position: relative; top: 1em; left: 1.5em; }
<5> the second level content panels are the colored shiny things?
<5> adding scroll bars to those is guaranteed to be ugly
<5> Gambit-: studies show, by the way, that absolutely everyone hates web pages that make noise
<5> they **** with your existing music
<4> StoneCydh, Oh for ****ing sure, that's the first thing that's going.
<4> click on one of the content panels, and then you have the section that scrolsl out with "Welcome to our company" or whatever, that section.
<5> i mean
<5> why are you bothering with flash at all?
<5> flash is 1998 san fransisco chic
<5> now it's webgames
<4> well I may not, there is html that's also included with the template.
<4> I don't really know where one ends and the other begins, yaknow.
<5> oh
<4> like, is the html one just a static version of the flash one with images and such?
<4> or are they integrated, etc *shrugs*
<4> I'm not even sure of the right questions to ask.
<5> xhtml is 1) teh easy, 2) teh flexible, and 3) everything you need if you don't want animating flying bull**** every time you presbutan
<5> and probably they're generated seperately
<4> well the idea behind all this is that I don't have to spend any time messing with it to get it up and running.
<5> flash is a compiled script language
<5> in my experience, site kits cost more time than the site building would have.
<4> right, so the content in the panels... compiled into the swf, or is it rendered from an external file of some kind?
<4> well only if you try to exceed the parameters
<6> or just do..
<5> oh
<4> If I keep within the parameters pretty rigorously then I should be able to get away with mostly just changing the text.
<5> generally it's compiled in; if you want it external you have to open xml sockets
<6> lol
<5> but, consider yourself fairly warned: flash kits are pain incarnate.
<4> have you dealt with them before?
<5> Several, yes.
<5> I've also written a few of my own.
<5> But mine were intensely single-purpose.
<4> hmph..
<4> what time is it in the us atm?
<6> its 4:00 in MST
<4> er, am or pm?
<5> it's 2:52p in California
<7> http://amerisurp.net/images/1-thrown_from_vehicle_fatal.wmv
<8> you just aint cool and you aint about to start
<8> ya momma dont dance and your daddy dont fart
<8> sharko downloads: Total: 5,888 22,963.20 MB
<9> slz, how much do you charge for sharko?
<10> three dolla
<9> Also, why can none of the kids in here speak English?
<8> 5$ for scoreboard updates
<11> english is so 1990
<8> otherwise its freeware
<10> man I kill u, _NubXtreme
<9> Right, death threats. Welcome to my ignore list kid.
<10> hah
<9> slz, I wonder what percent of downloaders will register. At 5% you'd have made something like $1,400.
<5> shareware game resistration for high quality B titles tends towards 0.8%
<9> StoneCydh, I know; I was being optimistic.
<5> 2-2.5% riding a trend
<8> well its not really shareware, you gotta take into account only like 1% of people want to upload scores
<12> how much are you charging to register?
<8> 5$
<9> slz, I know you've been working on sharko for ages now, but I haven't really paid attention. What did you write it in?
<8> c++, dx
<9> You might consider getting it listed on XBox Live. It would probably work, if the controls can translate.
<5> slz: you can almost double your registrations by dropping that to $4.50
<9> StoneCydh, what's the source for that?
<8> to be honest im not really interested in making money with it
<5> popcap's sales charts
<9> interesting
<5> slz: well, it's also building a customer base
<9> slz, perhaps you're not, but if you ever want to make money with a product, you should practice =)
<8> i agree that practice is always good
<9> "Buy Sharko now! Only --$5.00-- 4.50! 10% off! Act now, next month it will only be 9% off!"
<5> no!
<5> it's *not* a sale
<5> sales /hurt/ software purchases
<13> hey guys, sorry to ask for buy'n advice, but...I'm about to give in and get my 12 year WoW. Are all the retail versions the same or should I look for some special edition one?
<5> it's converting something from a round number to a value number
<5> you'd probably get more registrations at $7 than $5, actually
<5> because people compare that to $10 and it suddenly sounds very cheap
<10> randel, they are all the same
<13> Epoch`_, gracias.
<10> randel, make sure he's horde. they have it easy in PVP =]
<13> Epoch`_, yeah, he already mentioned that all his friends went Horde.
<10> know the server?
<9> randel, I'm sure you're well aware of this, but I'd consider avoiding MMORPGs. That is, unless you're trying to build up tolorance to addictive things.
<12> i think if i where to release a registration driven title i would make it $1 and on non-registered clients have advertisements on the loading screens
<10> _nx, wow is easy not to play.
<13> _nx, heh, not me. He gets good grades, plays soccer. Although, I did get ****ed into MoM (Minions of Mirth), Torque based MMORPG :-)
<9> Is that the one by JRitter?
<13> yeah, he kicks ***
<9> Yeah, I was surprised when he resurfaced and shipped.
<10> all good games have that "gotta get another level done" or "figure out this next puzzle"... it's up to the person to stop.
<9> I knew him years ago, before he moved to smallTownVille to write this on the cheap.
<9> Mind you, he was already a veteran by then
<13> _nx, I've spent dozen & dozens of hours on his game.
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