Green Lantern (April 2011)
Previously known as Chang at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
Location     Six Flags Great Adventure
Park section     Boardwalk
Coordinates     40.1411°N 74.4424°W
Status     Operating
Opened     April 4, 1997 (Kentucky Kingdom)
May 25, 2011 (Great Adventure)[1][2]
Cost     $12,000,000
Type     Steel - Stand-up
Manufacturer     Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer     Werner Stengel
Height     154 ft (47 m)
Drop     144 ft (44 m)
Length     4,155 ft (1,266 m)
Max speed     63 mph (101 km/h)
Inversions     5 (including the inclined vertical loop)
Duration     2:30
Capacity     1556 riders per hour

Height restriction     4 ft 6 in (137 cm)

Wikipedia contributors, <a href="en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green_Lantern_(Six_Flags_Great_Adventure)&oldid=462415531">"Green Lantern (Six Flags Great Adventure)"</a>, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,  (accessed November 28, 2011). 

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Description: Critter Hunt II has the following gameplay improvements over the original version:

• Map size is now 192x192
• You must have 500 critters in your pen to win.
• The map now supports six players.

Overall, I like this version much more than the original, as it\'s much bigger and it is much more difficult for a single player to hold a monopoly over the hunting grounds.
 
192x192
2-6 Players
By Eric Poggel

There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light; 
She set out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned home the previous night.
--Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

krashnburn: in case time rund backwards duhh
Eric Poggel: oh yeah.
Eric Poggel: i'm still thinking 3.5 dimensionally
--Eric Poggel

Eric Poggel: "Hey Jason, would you marry a girl with six fingers?"
Jason Campbell: Yeah! She could carry more grocery bags!
--Eric Poggel, Jason Campbell

Eric Poggel: he never listened to my sermons on proper cpu cooling, now he's regretting it.
John Henry:  yes ignoring sermons can lead to overheating
--Eric Poggel

Whoever holds the keys to programming ends up building the reality in which the rest of us live.
-- Douglas Rushkoff

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
--Robert Heinlein

The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you?
--Soren Kierkegaard

An online guid generator for when you can't remember where Microsoft puts that command line utility.
www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx

shell-tools.net/index.php?op=xml_format
Paste unformatted xml and get back a neatly-aligned document.

An onlinve validator to make sure xml is well formed, and also provides the option for validating against a DTD.
www.xmlvalidation.com

opengameart.org
A community driven database of art and music for use in games, filtered by theme and license.

In the Office

$1 for piggy back rides

i iz cold

I eated a Butter

Oh hi I upgraded your RAM.

Birth of The Cat Lady

media.ryzom.com
The Saga of Ryzom is a mmorpg that released all of their art assets for free.  This site provides a convenient way to browse and download them.

100's of high resolution textures divided by category.
www.mayang.com/textures

www.3drt.com
Not free, but low cost 3d character models, vehicles, and environments.

sixrevisions.com/freebies/textures/free-high-res-rough-textures
15 total; these are just some samples.  Visit the site for a complete list.

Collections of free 3d models, textures, and sound effects.

Available in several weights depending on your needs, the Tween Framework provides for dead-simple programmatic animations.  The code couldn't be simpler:

TweenNano.to(mc, 1.5, {alpha:0.5, x:120});

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
--Tom Robbins

An Open Search plugin for Adobe's Flash and Flex language reference.

as3corelib is a library of additional classes from Adobe.  It includes support for Json, cryptography, jpeg/png encoding, and a ton of array, date, and string utility methods.

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
--Fred Allen

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
--Oscar Levant

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
--Henry Ford

Templates can take string parameters, or even aliases of functions and symbols as parameters.  With 'static if' is compile time 'is' expression checks you can write compile time conditionals based on type information just as easily as you can regular conditionals based on run-time values.

D understands the concept of modules (where each file is a module) like Java and C#.  This prevents the cascade of unwanted namespace pollution that happen in C++ when one header file includes several others.

And without header files, a typical D project has half as many files as the equivalent C++ project and 10-20% less code.

D's garbage collector is optional and can be completely disabled; you are then responsible for deleting objects yourself just like in C++.  Alternatively, you can disable it inside performance-sensitive code and only run it when convenient.

Garbage collection reduces LoC and bugs since you no longer have to write copy constructors, reference counters, and destructors or worry about ownership of memory.

C++ has some add-on garbage collectors, such as Boehm, but without language support, all stack/heap memory values are treated as pointers which prevents collection due to false references.  Although D also uses a conservative garbage collector, extra type info from the language vastly reduces false pointers (need to verify this).

I compared two projects that were both near 15KLoC on Windows, using DMD 1.056 and Visual C++ 2008 compilers, both were built on a P4 2.8ghz with 1GB ram with debug info enabled and optimizations disabled.

DMD 1.056: 4 seconds
Visual C++ 2008: 132 seconds

If someone has a more scientific comparison, please edit/replace this item with your results.  However, with an order of magnitude (33x) difference in compilation time, it's safe to say that D is much faster.  This translates to direct productivity.

D has built-in support for:

• Contracts--which verify the input/output of a function
• Class invariants--to ensure integrety of the state of a class between calls.
• Unit Tests--easy enough to add in C++, but one less thing you have to do.

Also known as CTFE; if D has enough information to evaluate a function at compile time, it will do so.  If you write factorial(12)*sin(0)*180/3.14, the result will be compiled directly into the program.

In D, one function can be nested inside another, allowing for better compartmentalization of code.  Although this can still be done in C++ with nested classes, D's approach is simpler.  Additionally, nested functions/classes in D can access their parent's scope.

• Arrays can be concatenated directly with the ~ and ~= operators.  
• Although this makes the base pointer 8 bytes instead of 4 (on a 32-bit system), arrays store their own length with the .length property.  C style arrays can still be used with a pointer.
• D's operator[] allows access to multiple elements, returning a slice of the array.

Source: digitalmars.com/d/2.0/arrays.html

D supports array bound checking (which can be disabled via a compiler switch), and using the Safe-D subset (a very large subset) of the language, you get all of the memory safety of languages like C# or Java.

More info on SafeD

Types have much shorter names, so you get ulong instead of monsters things like unsigned long long.  Also, types are always guaranteed to be the same size across all platforms and implementations.