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Is there any way to pre-populate the cache, if a particular cutscene uses a lot of new sprites?  Something like:

ImAboutToUseSprite(234);
ImAboutToUseView(COMPLEXANIM); // pre-populate cache with al sprites in view

or is that not necessary due to the new mind-reading plugin for AGS? 

i would vote NO, one the Constitution, why?... cause i want a joint effort, not just the top countries (England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy...) pushing something out so it can be passed. Im pro-constitution, but i want a resposible constitution that reponds to the needs of all europeans, not a constitution that holds me to a social-economic model being pushed by richer countries... that they themselves have huge differences.

The Constitution actually tends to take power away from any one country trying to force its own agenda, by changing the voting to a simple majority instead of qualified majority, which always let the big countries gang up and stop somethign they didn't like.

It's funny, every time I see someone say "I'd vote No on the constitution becuase ..." the reason is ALWAYS somethign that isn't in the constitution. I sat down and read the thing yesterday, and there's nothing in there that makes the EU worse. Really. Some of it isn't as good as I might hope, but compared to the existing treaties its better. For goodenss sake, it has a "Bill of Rights" for example. Are you telling em you don't want your human rights protected?

Then again, saying "i'm offended by ...",

There are people who are offended by ellipsis?

To people like SSH: Does that mean that before you've reached that time you decide you've had enough hildren, you're just 100% of the time using no contraception whatsoever? I always picture babies popping out left, right and centre.

Well, of course until you actually start trying, you've no idea how fertile either of you actually are. For our first child we started "trying" (i.e. stopped using condoms) in November 2001 and the conception must have occurred at some point in February. My wife's cycle was always pretty irregular so its hard to know when exactly. We weren't monitoring tempratures or "trying" particularly hard on any days of the month or any stuff like that, so it was quite quick. We didn't use any contracpetion between kids, but then my wife was breast-feeding for a year and that inhibits ovulation sometimes. She only had one period between kids. Until my operation is confirmed as successful we're using condoms again.

On the other hand, I knew some people who had kids aged 7, 5 and 1 and they said they had never used contraception (not for any religious reason, but becuase they didn't mind lots of kids)

On average, I believe that people who are vaguely trying for kids have a 90% chance within 1 year. Of course, it can all happen the first time too, so make sure you're protected you youngsters!

My own snippety-snip is scheduled for 29th June! Just in time for Brittens

But then I have two kids and the doctors have all spent ages trying to dissuade me from it, even though they actaully want lots of people to do it. They're really covering their backs against litigation, I think. However, since my wife was very sick through the last preganancy we don't want to go through that again.

Sorry for saying about kids, but MY KIDS ARE THE GREATEST THINGS IN THE WORLD. Note that I don't get enough sleep and my 2-y-o does lots of naughty things and tantrums right now but its STILL great. Please don't do anything permanent to yourself, Kinoko!

My wife couldn't do the pill as she always forgot to take it which would bring about  a heavy period way to early and that didnt seem very heathly.

And to be sexist, sterotypical and true, when you hit 30, your hormones will make you want kids!

I really do hope that the constitution is rejected and the EU can move back to just being a free trade area, which is what it was originally designed to be.

Actaully, this is a common theme through many countries anti-EU propoganda and is wrong. Part of the original idea of the EU was to encourage closer unity and understaning between european countries so that the like of WWII would never happen again. Remember that at the time the gap from WWII wsa about the same as it had been between wars. Interestingly in France, people who had lived through the wars generally voted "Oui" to the constitution.

Also, the constitution does not make the EU any more of a political union, so the whole point is irrelvant to the referendum anyway.

It's definitely a hard question. I'm quite into politics, but I stand rather clueless when it comes to the constitution. The fact that both the communists and the extreme right seemed to unite in their big "non", makes it sort of hard to take a stand.

Sound like a very good reason to vote for it: if extremists hate it...

The problem with individual referenda is that too much gets lumped into one question, for example if the French asked:

1. Should we give Chirac the boot? Oui/Non
2. Should we in France keep all our special worker protection? Oui/Non
3. Don't you hate muslims, like those Turks? Oui/Non
4. Oh, and should we rationalise all these various EU treaties into one and a few other things with a constitution? Oui/Non

They would have got Oui, Oui, Oui, Oui!

Still haven't booked my flights. I hope that Bob Geldolf hasn't suddenly made all the Edinburgh flights that weekend more expensive....

by the way, is anyone letting me share their tent or do I need to bring stuff?

Do what I did: get made redundant, getting a £20k tax free payoff in the process, and then start a new job on the same salary at a different company the week after you leave.

The only REAL test of gender is whether you leave the toilet seat down or up.

Great work, Vel, thanks for keeping this going: but try and get more issues out more often!

How about "Occlusion" as a title?

the cycle stuff makes be think of bikes and also of cycle-based logic simulation, but that's just my job, I guess...

Especially since sound can be disabled in so many other ways, such as unplugging your speakers: you're just making your game harder to use, not stopping anyone from playing it without sound.

My cat used to scratch everything: when we got her the previous owner (a breeder: yes, it's a pedigree cat with some silly long name (Averleigh dressed to kill) and which knows more of its ancestors than I do of mine) said she was an indoors cat only. It's a ragdoll breed by the way. Anyway, the poor thing sat staring out the windows at the garden most of the time (when not destroying furniture, wallpapepr, etc.) and it was disgusting having to empty the litter tray, so we started letting it out and it has been happier ever since.

On the other hand, it always meows really loudly when we're trying to get the kids to sleep. So if anyone wants another cat, I'd be glad for you to take it off our hands. Price would be about £150 which is what we paid for it, but I'm willing to pay you more... 

Actually, seriously, there would be no harm in inviting TS... can't we get Remixor to pass on the invite, since he's he's best bud or something?

Now, if you could just get Tim Schaefer in the room, you'd have the whole trinity: Schafer, Ron and JC, er CJ

MUST RESIST OBVIOUS JOKE.....

NO, I CAN'T....

Given your nationality, Al, I'd have thought you wouldn't need a tip...

So, Benedict was John Paul's right hand man, and JP chose almost all the cardinals and then the cardinals vote for JP's man... what a surprise!

Anyway, I feel disappointed that they didn't take the opportunity to get rid of the completely unjustifiable doctrine banning contraception. I mean, biologially it just doesn't make sense. Abstention, which they allow causes the sperm to be reabsorbed into the body, and the eggs to end in a sanitary towel. Vasectomy, which they don't allow, simply causes the sperm to stay in the body even if ejaculation occurs, same effect to the sperm as abstention!

On the other hand, having seen both my daughters look like babies in very detailed 12-week ultrasounds, and having seen that people's gut reaction to a pregnant woman being assualted is worse than a non-pregnant woman, I really can understand an anti-abortion stance. My children were people after only 12 weeks from being a single cell and I can't say that anyone else's unborn children from at least that early don't have a right to live.

I have a kind of cheated feeling about this pope, and he seems like a kind of imposter to me, untrustworthy, but then JP2 was pope since I was 3 so I guess that's just a gut reaction to change. I can't justify the feeling other than my opinions on contraception, though.

I recently took my whole family's passport photos at home, and they were accepted OK by the Spanish consulate and UK Passport office. The leaflet that came with the passsport application form gave all the necessary details for photos and said that if using a digital camera, the print must be at least 600dpi, but that was all, I think.

4) I don't want to invest a lot of time and energy to work around something that should be already in, and might one day (hopefully soon) be there. For instance, there's a lot of ugly now-unnecessary code in my LSL7 template which makes me cringe, and I sure wish I didn't have to resort to so many variables for getting the size of GUIs - something I can now do quite easily.

but, but, that's the whole FUN of AGS programming!