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and believing there's a big invisible man that lives in the sky that controls everything and wants you to go to a certain building on sunday and sing songs and talk to him en masse does show intelligence does it?

No, but you'd probably find it hard to find anyone who actually believes that description you just used, anyway. You're setting up a strawman to knock down.

the fact of the matter is religion is to blame for the majority of all hatred, killing and war of the last 2005 years.

The fact of the matter is that religion is used as a tool and excuse by those who want to cause trouble.

also there was never much gun crime in the uk before the ban, and the ban only came after a bunch of kids were killed which is another perfect example of the government's "too little too late" mentality.

the point was that banning guns doesn't stop criminals getting guns

and drugs aren't banned, they're illegal to make, sell and posess them, it's not illegal to use them,

How do you use them without possessing them, exactly?

and if they were legal there wouldn't be more of a drugs problem than there already is.

Well,exactly, that was my point

also, i don't tar all religious (not reilgous) with the same brush, only the pick and mixers that choose to ignore parts of their particular rule book, if every religious person actually followed their faith to the letter and other people realised that the majority of all religions are born from the same story there would be less religious hatred.

So you've chosen to ignore "the letter" where Jesus said "No one can come to the father except by me"? Talk about pick and mix, hypocrite.

and just so you know mr peepwood, all atheists have different ideas, the only thing we have in common is we don't feel the need to believe in any supreme beings to try justify our existence and all the stuff that happens in the world.

I don't have a relationship with my wife in order to "justify my existence". Simililarly, I don't have a relationship with God in order to justify my existence. You really fail to understand what its all about and subsequently get all het up and make a fool of yourself with ill-thought-out rants.

but at the end of the day you're going to believe what you want to believe and so am i, and when we die we'll find out who was right or wrong.

Well, no, if you're right then we wont find out anything at all,as we'll have ceased to exist....

So, just load the different backgrounds as extra background frames and switch between them manually. Make sure you stop the background animation in the room load script. I used this technique in Awakening of the Sphinx.

the only solution to stop the attacks is an outright worldwide ban of religion

Yeah, banning guns has stopped gun crime in the UK. Banning nuclear weapon proliferation has stopped India and Pakistan getting them. Banning drugs has stopped drug problems. Banning alchohol really helped things in the 20s in America.

Only the stupid believe that banning things stop them happening.

as an atheist i think it's great that religious people want to kill each other, proves what loving peaceful people they are...

Well, I don't think that Islam makes any claim that Allah is a loving God, anyway. And also tarring all "reilgous" people with the same brush is the same thinking that bunches all people with a particular colour of skin together and demonstrates a particular lack of intelligence.

Summary of the inital findings of the investigators here, Farl:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4172740.stm

I really should get Vel/Darth to update that page. That tutorial only works with the version of AGS that was extant at the time, as CJ has subsequnetly changed the Dynamic sprite handling slightly. If you download the source code of the "Pixel Hunt" game on http://www.ssh.me.uk/pixelhunt.html then you can see an updated version that should work with current AGS.

Direct link to source code: http://www.freeweb.telco4u.net/superscottishhero/phsource.zip

See also the previous thread on the subject: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=21857.0

The government doesnt protect it, just record it.

It's probably not worth the fee given the probabilites involved

I don't, but he should be, if he's going to stick to the theme...

Ummm, in what way is Jack SParrow destroying a PC, exactly?

The point is not to be recognised by any piece of legislation, but rather to have a proof that your work existed at a particular date. There are obviously a huge number of ways of proving this, and I'd hardly expect any legislation on copyrights to attempt to ennumerate them all.

Also, these web sites are rather US-centric and the government one obviously would discourage people from using other ways to protect their copyrights, since they wont get their fee...

Copyright nis the only one you really need to worry about for AGS games, and the only thing you need to be able to do with copyright is prove that you wrote your stuff first. Posting yourself a CD with your game on with registered/recorded post (something signed for anyway) and leaving it unopened is adequate proof of date. However, I dont think anyone here has bothered doing that, as its only worth suing a big company if they steal your stuff and I don't think a big company is going to rip the sprites or dialogue from a 320x200 game these days...

In short, don't worry about it

What are you actually trying to do, btw? If you are trying to go through random permutations of a set of numbers, or randomly shuffling something, or suchlike, then you'll find that there are various algorithms to find in google.

And Gilbert's code is wrong: his == should be a >=

but you may want something like:

Code: ags

int uniq[10];
int i=0;
while (i<10) {
  uniq[i]=-1;
}
while (i<10) {
  while (!isuniq(i))   uniq[i]=random(99);
}  

function isuniq(int x) {
  int j=0;
  if (uniq[x]<0) return 0;
  while (j<x) {
    if (uniq[j]==uniq[x]) return 0;
  }
}

In my experience, getting married makes you put on weight.

He, the "male bikini" invention was just something for having a little of fun...

Yeah, I bet you get up to a lot of fun when you wear your male bikini... :o

Male bikini? Farl, just stop digging 

"Trunks" is the word that you are searching for, my friend...

Well, you know I did make it with an American girl about 14 years ago... 

Be gentle with the poor lad, did you now see his sweet lil picture in teh photo thread?

I'll copy it here for you...

I hereby declare the puzzle competition dead. It was only Eggie and Ginny who used to enter regularly, anyway.... 

Your culinary expertise is only exceeded by your scripting ability

Here's one of my own recipies. I call it Cheesy bread stack.

Ingedients:

1 slice of bread
1 slice of cheese
1 more slice of bread
some butter

Procedure:
1. Put the bread on a plate
2. Put a small amount of butter on the bread in a "spread" formation
3. Put on the cheese. All of it should be on top of the bread
4. Put some butter on the other bit of bread
5. Place the other bit of bread butter side down *IMPORTANT* on top of the cheese
6. Eat

OK< does my puzzle suck or are you just all too lazy?

And combine it with 6 Days A' Sassin and you could have "Around the world in eighteen days"