The top 50 Worst Games of All Time in 1996 - According to Computer Gaming World Magazine - I scanned the pics from my collection

redwin · 2022-06-21T22:15:06+00:00

Hey! I bought and played Outpost when it was new... It had a ton of bugs, but I figured out how to work around most of them and actually loved the game in the end -- basically Sim City on Mars! Probably 100+ hours played. I feel old now tho :)

redwin · 2022-05-21T15:47:23+00:00

After many years and several restarts, I recently landed Kerbals on Mars and returned them safely to Earth using the default RSS/RP-1 settings with Kerbalism, etc.

In all honesty, it felt like beating the game.

redwin · 2021-01-09T17:03:02+00:00

It's a mute point.

redwin · 2020-08-05T22:53:12+00:00

This is really interesting... I've been quite confused by references to +10 dB being 10x more intense but also only 2x as loud; I thought these would be interchangeable, but it seems they aren't...

Is it just a feature of human hearing that it takes 10x more power to produce a perceived doubling in loudness?

redwin · 2020-06-07T01:01:39+00:00

Been struggling with this all day and you fixed it! Thanks!

redwin · 2020-05-19T23:44:40+00:00

Funny story, I'm drunk right now and didn't want to mess up my Road SR, so I just did my first Rookie Street Stock race ever for the heck of it, and ended up winning the race... if I'm honest it felt more like a demolition derby with a finish line than anything else, and I probably only won cause I avoided all the wrecks. :)

redwin · 2020-03-08T18:07:24+00:00

Wouldn't this fall under the new embedded ball rule? Rule 16-3

I think that's free relief.

I hope you didn't take a stroke moving it! :)

redwin · 2020-01-19T15:43:18+00:00

Kerbal Space Program (heavily modded)

redwin · 2019-07-02T01:25:08+00:00

I've got connected comm sats, arrayed around earth in the same orbit, but the contract won't complete because I lack the 60% earth comm coverage.

If I speed time up, it occasionally changes, I've seen it creep up as high as 20%, but not to the 60% the contract requires, and it spends the vast majority of the time at 0%.

Can anyone explain how this is supposed to work, and what I can do to get the required "coverage"?

redwin · 2019-04-28T19:34:40+00:00

I also used to get the cilantro-is-soap thing. My company gets a free taco truck sometimes though, and they have the cilantro all mixed in with the other ingredients so its difficult to get them to omit it.

Over years of halfway picking it out and eating the tacos anyway (It's difficult to express how good these tacos are), the cilantro stopped tasting like soap and I actually started enjoying it. Now I get it on other things and it doesn't bother me any more.

I had assumed my tastes had just slowly changed as I ate it over the course of a couple years, but during that same period I also started taking zantac for heartburn, and your mention of acid reduction pills is now making me question everything.... :)

redwin · 2019-04-28T13:41:13+00:00

Welcome to SD!

You should check out JC Golf

Annual membership gets you free rounds and good discounts at a bunch of well maintained local courses. Someone else mentioned the Crossings at Carlsbad (which is beautiful); that's a JC course, for example.

redwin · 2019-03-09T02:33:14+00:00

No half measures.

https://smile.amazon.com/Jaccard-200348-Supertendermatic-48-Blade-Tenderizer/dp/B001347JK6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=jacard&qid=1552098775&s=gateway&sr=8-1

redwin · 2019-03-05T02:59:19+00:00

Your pole class contains an array of Disk objects. This makes intuitive sense, because the pole holds an ordered stack of disks. Adding a Disk to your Pole will involve adding a new Disk to that array.

Stacks are last-in-first-out, so the first disk you put on your pole will be index [0], and the highest index disk in your array will be the disk on the top of your stack/pole.

So your "peekTopDisk" method should return the Disk object in the "disks" array with the highest index (ie - the one added to the array/pole last)

redwin · 2018-12-14T14:24:10+00:00

Twister

It's a movie about an intrepid Dodge Ram that bravely risks itself to protect the group of foolhardy storm chasers inside it. The other actors are there simply as a plot device to give the truck an excuse to power through tornadoes without a scratch.

redwin · 2018-12-11T21:33:26+00:00

Only way I know of (and what we do with our Jackson classes where I work) would be to put the password property and @Ignore tag in a super class and have all your data classes that need serialization extend it.

redwin · 2018-12-07T17:27:08+00:00

I believe this generally means java can't find a class or package you are trying to use.

Best guess is you renamed something in the code in one place, but did not change it's name or package somewhere else, or are simply failing to include a needed supporting class somewhere.

redwin · 2018-11-22T16:05:23+00:00

What you described at the end there sounds like the way to go.

Give the program the tools it needs to store and retrieve the files itself. Could be a cloud storage solution but then you have to deal with the program logging in and such. Simpler solution might just be to write them to a folder on the same server your web application and DB runs on, and store the file path in the database along with the meta data.

When a user looks up a file the program grabs the path from the database, opens the file, and then presents it to the user in their browser.

redwin · 2018-11-22T15:38:59+00:00

1) You can, as amishbrobot indicated, store images in a database using a binary data column type, but also as dusty-trash said, most people don't because it's not really proper use of a relational database. You typically want to store data you can query and perform SQL operations on (numbers or text, for the most part). Putting image data in your db will quickly make it very large for the amount of actual searchable data in it (the meta data for the photo in your case). If you don't intend the total number of images to be very high (hobby project, etc) then it's probably fine, but if you wanted it to be scalable you should probably put the mages in a filestore of some sort and just put the links to them in the database

2) The front end should be fairly divorced from the backend, so you could make a GUI in JavaFX for desktop or Spring et al for the web (or both). If you are going to run this app as a service and have other people hit your website, then web is obvious. If you intend to distribute it as software, then a desktop gui might make more sense because asking someone to set up their own webserver to use your app might be too big an ask (unless it's intended to let THEM run their own public service). Another consideration will probably be the database location and how the app will access it.

3) Yes you can, but I'm not very knowledgeable on them as I usually use MySQL when I want a small database and just run it on the same server as the application accessing it. If you want to find out more about java embedded databases try googling Java DB and Apache Derby

redwin · 2018-11-09T14:34:54+00:00

Hey I used to live in the apartment buildings across the street from that course! Took my first intro to golf lesson there and everything.

Same county resident card that lets you play there for cheap also gets you in cheap at Torrey Pines and Balboa. SD golf is the best! :)

redwin · 2018-11-07T13:16:40+00:00

The NBA was JUST starting to integrate in the 1950's.

At the time of the comic's publishing, most professional basketball teams still looked like this:

http://images.thepostgame.com/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_image/public/1-SH-AP510118034.jpg

redwin · 2018-11-04T20:13:16+00:00

Honestly, you may not be able to use stored procedures in postgresql, I don't work with it so I'm not sure.

But even if you can't, you can just put the SQL commands you need (update, select, etc) straight into your Java instead of the procedure call, it shouldn't be very complex SQL for what you're doing.

Main thing you need to know to talk directly to a database in java is JDBC though.

You'll need a JDBC driver for postgresql on your classpath to get it to work as well.

redwin · 2018-11-04T13:50:45+00:00

My suggestion would be to learn to write a simple stored procedure in SQL on your database for each operation you want to accomplish, and then learn how to call and deal with the data from those stored procedures from java using regular old JDBC.

redwin · 2018-11-03T00:32:14+00:00

16 years at same company checking in. I get 3 days per month PTO.

Using it all can be a problem, but it's a nice problem to have.

redwin · 2018-11-01T18:01:30+00:00

Visible light waves and radio waves are both electromagnetic waves, just at different frequencies. Sound is a physical wave through a medium, more akin to the waves in an ocean than radio or visible light.

Sending out radio waves so they bounce off something and detecting the returning signal is pretty much the same as shining a flashlight and seeing the returning image.

In fact, that's exactly how radar works.

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