Re: audio game programming help!
Jak, well if you are certain you want to begin with Python Id first suggest you go tohttp://www.python.organd download the Python runtime for Windows. In fact, do to the fact not everything for Python is Python 3 compatible I suggest possibly downloading both
Re: latin
Kamochek, on the contrary if you study the New Testament more closely Jesus did tell the Jews and everyone else that they must believe he is the messiah else they will parish, be destroyed, etc. Right off the top of my head I can think of a few verses where he explicitly says that,
Re: audio game programming help!
Jak, well if you are certain you want to begin with Python Id first suggest you go tohttp://www.python.organd download the Python runtime for Windows. In fact, do to the fact not everything for Python is Python 3 compatible I suggest possibly downloading both
Re: latin
Dark, well, I do understand where you are coming from, but I dont think you fully understand where I am coming from regarding my views of religion and science. I suppose that for someone such as yourself who has spent their life studying philosophy and are use to debating with like
Re: Hoping to move out.
SLJ, you are definitely confused what Hamburger Helper is. It is not a hamburger as in a sandwich you eat. I think a little definition is in order here.In America the word hamburger is often slang for ground beef, minced beef, or whatever you guys call it in your
Re: audio game programming help!
Jack, before you can select a programming language or engine to use for developing games you first need to consider some factors and then select the programming language that best fulfills your needs. You need to decide what target environment or environments
Re: Hoping to move out.
Brad, Im not sure what you mean by twisting your wrist when using a George Forman grill. The one I have is shaped like a clamshell , and all you do is set your hamburger paddy, steak, bacon, etc on the grill and close the lid and it cooks both sides at the same time. I
Re: latin
Kamochek, the word minister is generally a catch all term for anyone who teaches at a Protestant church. Each denomination has its own title for minister be it reverend, pastor, etc but they all basically mean the same thing. The term priest usually specifically refers to a Catholic
Re: firefox 29, or why I'm upgrading
Well, I upgraded yesterday, and I find Firefox 29 acceptable. Could be better of course, but as you say is no worse than Firefox 24.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=174065#p174065
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Re: Hoping to move out.
Brad,Well, as far as cooking raw meats go it helps to have someone sighted help you learn to cook raw meats properly for the first few times because it largely depends on the equipment you are using and the type of meat you are cooking. I can say that a Forman grill
Re: latin
Kamochek, I no longer go to church on a regular basis so I am not in a position to record services for you, but as I have been to a number of different churches I can probably give you a written description of the various denominations and how they usually perform their services. That
Re: Is audiogames.net audioguys.net?
Well, that is definitely an interesting question. I have certainly observed there are far more women on the Audyssey list than here on Audiogames.net, and I have no way of explaining that interesting fact. Be that as it may I think its not so much women
Re: latin
Kamochek, I believe the word you are looking for is tithe. To tithe is to collect money for the church by passing around a plate or having a donation box where the congregation can give money to the church for various things.The other word is communion. To take communion is to drink
Re: Is audiogames.net audioguys.net?
Lol. Dark, that is way too funny. I dont know how many people would visit a site like audiocrapp.net, but I do agree with your basic point. Certain terms like game are fully loaded and it implies a level of competition that may not even exist in that
Re: virtual world
Kamochek, while a lot of people use the word virtual to describe this or that as a type of virtual reality the truth is a lot of things often described as being virtual really are not virtual. Its just one of those catch phrases used to make things sound more high tech and
Re: virtual world
Kamochek, I certainly understand what you are saying, but lets not call it a virtual church. I think calling it an online church or something like that would be more appropriate.What you are talking about exists in part in the form of internet podcasts, TV programming, and
Re: virtual world
Dark, thanks for addressing the religious issue with Kamochek. I didnt want to say anything at the risk of offending somebody,, but I was beginning to get sick and tired of an interesting topic such as virtual reality becoming just another one of Kamochecks endless discussions
Re: file recovery
Kamochek, as Ambro stated the length of time since these files were formatted is going to be a big problem. Once you delete a file or erase a partition new data will get written in its place making it more difficult to recover the original data that was stored there. The more
Re: I have no passion in life
Based on what Ive read of the last few posts I really think people are making too much of their personal appearance. Yes, personal appearance does matter when going out in public, but seriously its not that complicated. All that really matters is that you appear
Re: has anyone used emacspeak?
Scot, to find out about Speakup read the Speakup Users Guide athttp://www.linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txtwhich I think will give you a decent introduction to the screen reader. Speakup comes bundled with a few Linux distributions like Vinux already so the sections
Re: programming editors and screenreaders
Balliol, when I am using Windows I write 99% of my code in Windows Notepad with NVDA as my screen reader. I find that combination generally handles all my basic needs for serious coding. On Linux I write my code in Gedit, the default Gnome text editor,
Re: Linux and Orca
Ambro, regarding Firefox make sure Caret Browsing is enabled. You can enable and disable it with f7, and by answering yes to the prompt to enable Caret Browsing. That may be why you arent getting as much information on some web pages as you should.As for improving Orcas
Re: Linux and Orca
Chris, I dont know much about Android so I cant honestly say if the Pico TTS that ships on the Vinux DVD is one and the same, but I found it to be a reasonable compromise. Although, I personally am okay with Espeak so this may just be a matter of preference.Ambro, you cant
Re: latin
Kamochek, I certainly have read “The Adventures of Tom Soyer” as it is an American classic. For many years it was standard reading material for elementary school age children. Although, I am not sure it is still standard reading for elementary age children in public schools today. At
Re: Linux and Orca
Zack, yes, that is a known bug. It is pretty easy to fix though.To begin with to keep Orca from sticking one fix which has been known to work is to delete your Orca preferences and rerun Orca setup from terminal which will reset all your settings to default.To have Orca
Re: latin
Kamochek, it is very easy to edit a prior post. Go to the post you want to edit and below it will be a number of buttons like Report, Delete, Edit, etc. Simply arrow to or tab to the Edit button and press enter. Then you will be able to edit your post.URL:
Re: latin
Kamochek, I think you misunderstood the point of my prior post on this thread. I didnt actually mean you had to go to a Catholic church or listen to their sermons. What I was trying to say is if you want to know what Catholics actually believe you need to talk to someone who is
Re: Linux and Orca
Anbro, for all intents and purposes you are still a newbie to Linux and for that reason I would recommend you stick with Vinux for the time being. The reason is that it is stable, the packages are being updated and maintained through the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS repository, and the
Re: Linux and Orca
Ambro, let me begin by saying Ubuntu 13 is not a good choice if accessibility is a concern. The developers of Ubuntu chose to switch to a less accessible desktop environment, Unity, which broke accessibility on a number of levels. The problem isnt with Orca, but with the
Re: latin
Kamochek, although Catholics do decorate their churches with statues, pictures, and various other forms of religious art they do not in fact pray to them. Praying to a statue would be blasphemy to a Catholic. This is another case where you have been mislead what Catholics actually
Re: Linux and Orca
Ambro, yes, with LibreOffice you should be able to make notes and a summary in Writer. Not sure why it is not working on your live CD, but it sounds like your accessibility flags arent set correctly as LibreOffice 4.x is very accessible with Orca, and I know Vinux comes with
Re: latin
Kamochek, as for paganism it is still around. Its nowhere as near as popular as the monotheistic religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam , but it still exists. In fact I know a couple of people who worship earth gods and are pagans. The official term is neopagan which just
Re: latin
Kamochek, a note about speaking in tongues. You seem to be under some misconceptions about what the bible refers to as speaking in tongues. According to the scriptures speaking tongues is understood by everyone who hears it and can be understood by everyone in their own language at
Re: latin
Kamochek, I see your point, but pretending to be one religion when you dont really believe the tenants of that religion would be dishonest. Not just to all the people you associate with but would be dishonest to yourself, and I think if You ever did something like that you would be
Re: new form of english, so funny.
Well, my take on this entire topic is simply this. I know everyone can and does very when it comes to humor, but for me joking about the language and intentionally writing posts that are hard to read is immature. I feel if anyone wants to be treated as a
Re: latin
Kamochek, Im not a Buddhist myself, but I have studied Buddhism in college and one thing I can say is that your perception of them is not correct. As Dark outlined in a post above Buddhists follow the teaching of Buddha and try to come to a sense of peace with themselves and the
Re: can a blind person drive a car?
Bryan,, I certainly understand the source of your doubt and skepticism here about self-driving cars, but consider this. To begin with they arent necessarily being developed for the blind in mind accept in specific research cases. It looks as the automotive
Re: has anyone used emacspeak?
Wanderer, unfortunately, tracking the highlighted item is one of Speakups problems. In a program like Lynx the best way to resolve that problem is to configure Lynx to number the links on a web page. That way instead of arrowing to the link you want you can just
Re: new form of english, so funny.
Kamochek, I saw the post you mentioned and I did not see anything funny about it. On the contrary I chose not to respond to it because it was unclear, and I tend to ignore anyone who cant compose a decently written post. I feel if someone cant take the time to
Re: has anyone used emacspeak?
Wanderer, yes, I have used Emacspeak, but not for quite a long time. The main reason I no longer use it is that I think there are plenty of better alternatives out there for Linux. Emacspeak was a good technology for its time, but is no longer the bee-all or
Re: bible mini series described?
I dont think so. If you are talking about the Bible mini series made by the History Channel all of the documentaries and mini series I have purchased from them on DVD did not have description. Plus when it was originally aired a year or two ago it did not have
Re: can a blind person drive a car?
Kamochek, its possible for a blind person to drive a car, but as has been said it is a very risky business and is not strictly legal. I do know of one instance where a blind man drove a car across Europe with someone sitting in the passenger seat giving him
Re: what do you think about when you listening to trance?
Kamochek, what is dark psy Trans? I am from America and I dont know what you are talking about. I am assuming here you are talking about something that is available in your country but not mine as I have never heard of it. Maybe a little
Re: playing DVDs from multiple countries
Harrylst, actually all drives can play any DVD with any region code if you no how to modify the firmware for the drive. In the USA, for example, the drives are set to region 1 by the manufacturer. In order for someone like me to play a DVD from the UK or
Pausing the Screen in Console Programs
Hi all,This question is mostly for developers but any thoughts from non-developers are welcome as well.At the moment I am working on a quick and dirty text adventure system written in C++ suitable for developing classic interactive fiction games similar to
Re: what do you think about when you listening to trance?
Okay...Interesting. All I can say is that music sort of reminds me of games like Troopanum. I can easily imagine a game playing that music while spaceships or asteroids are falling, or perhaps a classic racing game like Poll Position.
Re: Shameless self promotion aka Dark's singing demos
Dark, excellent job. Even though that sort of music isnt my cup of tea, so to speak, I did think you did a good job on the music.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=171987#p171987
Re: Goodbye Windows XP, i still get nistalgic over you.
[[wow]]. Just reading a few of these posts makes me realize how old I am compared to a lot of you, and how many members of this forum are pretty young. I think one reason I am not as emotional over the demise of XP is that for me it was
Re: Goodbye Windows XP, i still get nistalgic over you.
Im more than ready. In fact, I am getting ready to celebrate when Windows XP dies. I havent been running that pile of trash in more than five years anyway, and as a developer I have been wanting to let go of some of its deprecated
Re: Goodbye Windows XP, i still get nistalgic over you.
Chris, I am pretty sure Microsoft wont relent on the Metro look and feel no matter how much you and others whish they might reject it in favor of a classic Windows look and feel. While I would certainly prefer the classic user interface
Re: lets talk about...
SLJ, glad I was not the only one who thought the topic was going to be about sex. That ellipsis really left me wondering what Kamochek thought was so bad he could not come out and say it up front. Turned out to be yet another religious discussion.URL:
Re: 40 minute mode for nvda!
Trenton, Lol. I missed this on the first as I was incomucato that day, but am getting a kick out of it now. Thanks for posting this April Fools Day joke.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=171366#p171366
Re: I have no passion in life
Wanderer, as you can tell by the number of people who have responded to your comments what you are going through is quite common among the blind population. Even I can admit to having been through what you are experiencing a few times in my life as well. However, I
Re: lets talk about...
Well, since we are talking about the three dots in English we call that an elipsis. As you say it is used to pause between two thoughts or to basically state you know the rest which in this case we dont until reading the first post in the thread.Funnily enough when I
Re: a lil amateur writing: how bad is it?
Chandu, actually that is a pretty decent start to a story so far. I dont think your inner critic is correct, and you are being too hard on yourself. Keep up the good work on it and youll have something decent there I think.URL:
Re: girls and adolt women
Bashue, I definitely get what you are saying, and think the principle problem is often adults such as your parents know what they mean but arent able to put into words what they are thinking when they tell a child he or she is too young to understand what love is. What
Re: Apple alex
Steve, Im afraid you are out of luck. Apples Alex voice is only available on Apple devices. If you want the Alex voice or to record it you will have to buy a Mac. There is no other way to get the voice.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=170231#p170231
Re: vegetarianism- your views?
Chandu, as far as my views goes I consider vegetarianism is principally of consuming foods that come from plants such as roots, leaves, stocks, fruits, grains, etc. Basically, any part of a plant that can be safely consumed by a human being. I dont really consider
Re: Where is the java development kit (JDK)?
Sawcheat, please specify which version you need plus platform and processor type. For example do you need the windows 32-bit version, the Windows 64-bit version, the Linux 32-bit version, Linux AMD64 version, etc.URL:
Re: girls and adolt women
Ive seen a lot of posts here with people saying they dont know what love is or what the difference between love and infatuation is. I think the easiest way to explain it is to begin by dispelling a few myths.The first is that love is often described as an emotion.
Re: question about christianity
Kamochek, once again, I think you are over simplifying things. There is no way to just point to any one Christian sect and say this one or that one uses the King James translation, because it is often not that simple. A lot of times it comes down to the
Re: question about christianity
Hi all,Okay, there are a lot of posts Id like to respond to so Ill respond to them one by one in order below.Bryan, yes, I have noticed that too. Any time the FFRF posts a comment on their wall, make a statement, there are a lot of religious people who cant keep
Re: question about christianity
Dark, its a complicated situation of course. Usually thanks to separation between church and state religious groups such as the Christian right can only lobby for laws or candidates they want, but every now and then they are able to enact laws or elect candidates
Re: Book Recommendations?
Guitarman, well for science fiction you might want to try some of Elizabeth Moons books if you havent already. She often writes science fiction action adventures with a sort of Star Trek feel to them. In particular the Serrano Legacy and Vaddas War series would appeal
Re: Making A Tts Voice?
Guitarman, to be honest the requirements to do this are far more complicated and more technical than you realize. It is definitely far more complicated than just writing a scriptSupposedly there are programs like Model Talker which Scot mentioned above where you could
Re: question about christianity
Kamochek, interesting topic of discussion, and as I happen to be something of an amateur historian I do think I can answer your questions here. However, keep in min d that what we are discussing is better than a couple thousand years of history, and its a long
Re: Making A Tts Voice?
CAE, there are a lot of problems with that method. For one if you cut up recordings and piece words and sentences back together there is always going to be certain words or phrases that your TTS will never be able to speak. If it isnt in your database it wont be able to
Re: Rock Music Suggestions
Ghost Rider, what exactly are you looking for in terms of music? Rock is a very huge and varied collection of music. We have classic rock, hard rock, soft rock, grunge, and so on. If I had a better idea of what you were looking for I might be able to give you
Re: question about christianity
Dark, yes, that is certainly true. The Romans were for their time pretty tolerant of other religions, and were not ones to push their beliefs off onto others. When they went in and conquered an area they let the people continue to believe whatever they wanted
Re: question about christianity
Kamochek, the Puritans had nothing to do with Messianic Judaism, and I am not sure where you got that idea. As Dark said the Puritans were a Christian sect of protestant reformers who rejected both the Catholics and the Anglicans and started their own religious
Re: Things you really miss?
Oh, I definitely do miss my Braille N Speaks. They seem rather clunky to the tech we have now, but back in the early to mid 90s they were a must have item for a blind student. I got my first BNS Classic in 7th grade, used it a couple of years, upgraded to a BNS 640K
Re: converting ebooks(pdf) into mnp3 using sapi?
Daniel, the solution I use isnt free, but it works. You can convert the pdf file to text using Adobe Reader, and then open that text file in TextAloud, and use TextAloud to convert it to wav or mp3 using the Sapi voice of your choosing.URL:
Re: transformers
Dark, when it comes to the Transformers movies I thought they were mostly okay. As Aaron mentioned Revenge of the Fallen was pretty good and I did like Dark Side of the Moon. All be it they decided to change the Transformers history and plot somewhat to do it.However, I do take
Re: transformers
Ghost Rider, I bet he will if he is a big collector. I understand it is difficult to get some of the originals that I had in anything approaching good condition, and admittedly a lot of the ones I had were pretty beat up by the time I sold them off. I had lost the detachable
Re: transformers
Well, when it comes to the Transformers I am a traditionalist. I grew up withe the original cartoon series and the original movie so nothing else is quite the same these days. Im not saying the newer shows like Beast Wars, Beast Machines, etc were bad, but they were nowhere as
Re: girls and adolt women
Kamochek, I dont wish to offend you, but what I am about to say is sincerely meant. One issue I take with religion is the belief that you can just simply pray and God will step in and make everything alright such as open your eyes or make your father change his mind
Re: Training Centers
Dark, the issue over firearms is just one of many areas where you guys over in England and we Americans differ. As you may know the second amendment to the United States Constitution grants the right to own and bare arms to any American irrespective of age, race, or
Re: girls and adolt women
Kamochek, let me begin with the point that I realize your situation is tough. It must be difficult being a Messianic Jew in a country with so many religious or orthodox Jews. However, you cant really enter into a relationship with religious Jew expecting to try and
Re: Training Centers
CAE, while I personally have not gone to the WSB or NFB training centers I did go to a training center here in Ohio, the Cleveland Sight Center, and I would assume some of those other training centers may have something analogous to my own experience at the Cleveland Sight
Re: Training Centers
Dark, regarding the sleep shades issue I am sure this is simply an issue you will have to agree to disagree with as I dont think there is any way to convince you of the necessity of this in training. While I am totally blind now when I was loosing my sight I had to wear
Re: girls and adolt women
Kamochek, I do understand where you are coming from, but in all honesty as you get older you will find that those things mean little in the scheme of things. Yes, I agree the sound of a girls voice, the way her body feels, etc can be initial points of attraction, but
Re: girlfriend
Yeah, I agree the full cyber experience is fucked up and weird, but never-the-less I have heard of some experimental projects in the works. One was a full body suit you plugged into your computer that attempts to simulate sex with another person over an internet connection. Im
Re: girlfriend
Kamochek, what you are talking about is called phone sex. It is not actually sex so to speak. It is basically just two people on the phone describing what they are doing in a pretend sexual encounter. As this is a public forum I dont intend to go into specifics, but they
Re: Things you really miss?
Fastfinge, I agree with you. It is not so much the old technology itself I miss but the functionality I had with it. The way things are changing in the technology industry there are very useful things I could do back in the day I cant do now or its not the same as it
Re: Things you really miss?
Dark, you are absolutely right. The arcades as we knew them in the 80s and 90s went the way of the dinosaurs. While I miss them I also realize the reasons why we no longer see video arcades these days, and why most game companies no longer make video game
Re: problem with installing framework
Connor, Mono is a free and open source substitute to Microsofts .NET Framework. Because it is open source it has been ported to a number of platforms including Mac OSX and Linux. All I can say is give it a try. If it works it works. If not then we will have
Re: problem with installing framework
Connor, all of those games require other dependencies that probably are not being met on your machine. In the case of Entombed I know you need the latest XNA Framework, and the later versions also needed an up to date Microsoft SQL dependency. Rail Racer
Re: Things you really miss?
Well, there are a lot of places and things I miss, but since you opened this topic up about simulators and games Ill continue along that thread for the moment.When I was a kid back in the 1980s there was this store in Wooster called Big Wheel. What I enjoyed most
Re: problem with installing framework
Connor, well if you can not get Microsofts .NET Framework to install perhaps you should try the open source .NET Framework, Mono, instead. You can get the open source .NET Framework which is .NET 4.0 compatible fromhttp://www.mono-project.organd last time I
Re: Favorite Foods.
Dark,Well, fried chicken is a staple in America, particularly in the south, and having grown up on it I guess I am a pretty big fan of fried chicken. In particular our local I.G.A. has a little diner attached that serves up some of the best fried chicken and mashed potatoes
Re: window-eyes is now free for ms-office users
Josh, yes, I know all about the Window-eyes for Office option. As it happens I have just switched to that as my primary screen reader, and am quite happy with it. I think given time Window-Eyes users will out number Jaws users because the
Re: Favorite Foods.
Dark, you are right that the terms hot and spicy are relative to where you come from and what someone is use to as being normal. As this changes from person to person, country to country, it is difficult to describe it unless the person whom you are speaking to has the same
Re: Meanings of your usernames?
Great topic we have going. Very interesting to say the least. I have enjoyed reading the posts here.As for my user name no big mystery about it. My name is Thomas Ward, and to simplify my login I shortened it to tward. I use that as my login for Windows, Linux,
Re: I'm considering Android, what do you guys think?
Chris, as of the last couple releases of Android accessibility is pretty decent. Id say there arent as many accessible apps currently for Android as for iOS, but it is worth having an Android device to use for day to day stuff and to help
Re: A little screen reader comflict. what to choose?
Andy, I am with Kyleman on this issue. If you find Jaws works in some situations and NVDA in others there is nothing stopping you from using both. There hasnt been a screen reader developed yet which will do everything perfectly, and they all
Re: The C and C++ Programming Languages
Sebby, while I concede your points above in post 4 about C and C+++ I dont think it is so much of a case of need so much as preference. What I mean by that is you can do a lot of good stuff in C, but as an OOP programmer I prefer the way C++ programs are
Re: Girls at school harder 2 get than ones Outside of School?
Themadviolinist, living on campus is way different than living off of campus. The main difference is there are a lot more ways to socially interact with other college students living in the dorms. There are the public lounges where
Re: who want to read my book?
What is the book about. Could you write up a brief summary of what the book is about, what genre it is, so we would have an idea if it is something we would like to read?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=162382#p162382
Re: Girls at school harder 2 get than ones Outside of School?
Ultradude306, I think a lot of your problem has to do with age. What I mean by that is the girls at the high school age, even a few college age, are quite young and immature. At that age all they can think about is clothes, the
Re: what has happend to audyssey?
Hi:Sorry, about the site being down. I took it down intending to work on it over the Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S. and I ended up not getting back to it. I have been extremely busy in my personal life, and I will end ever to get things back up and
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