Running Street Fighter III on your PC

Street Fighter 3 is a fantastic game. Utterly incredible for a rainy afternoon - and since summer 2007, it's been possible to play on the PC. If you want to try it out, all you need to do is follow these simple instructions.
1. Download CPS3 Emulator
I tried a load of different emulators, including the latest […]

Why I chose to reject God

When I looked at Christianity (which is all I can really talk about with much confidence) in terms of the 'bigger picture', it seemed that people have believed in a God for generations upon generations simply because their parents did before them. The whole idea of having religious 'experiences' or life changing moments is rare - in my experience, people have a given religion from birth, they don't choose it, and in the majority of cases they stick to it until death.

This hereditary belief system does itself no favours. To begin with it gives religion a lack of credibility - surely a person of religion would be far more consciously sincere about their beliefs if they had actually chosen them? I decided that I had no strong convictions for the ideas of Christianity, so I gave it up.

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Installing Commandos - A Tale of Woe

I used to love Commandos; that is, the first game in the series, Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines. I often go back to play games from ten or more years ago, and this is the latest one I have a craving for.

Did I mention, I've just ordered a pretty powerful, expensive gaming laptop from Zepto? Some of its power, I think, might go wasted …

Anyway, the first thing I needed to do was find the disk. It definitely wasn't a DVD case, which meant trawling through boxes and boxes of disks, often with no names along the spines, hunting for it. Three hours later - and with a significantly less tidy room - I gave it up.

Five days of Ubuntu Linux

Last wednesday I ordered a new laptop. I'll definitely be installing Vista on it, if only for gaming and DirectX 10, but I also plan to use it as an excuse to get to grips with Linux. I've used Windows all my life, 3.1 followed by 95, 98, 2000 and now XP, and I'd describe myself as fairly competent at working with it: this would be a pretty new experience for me. A few years ago I'd installed Fedora Core 4, and I wasn't impressed a great deal, but this time I decided to go with Ubuntu. This distribution, from what I've read, seems to be fast entering the realms of user-friendly for those with no experience of Linux - that is, it would hopefully be less like jumping in at the deep end and hoping to surface. Ubuntu's apparent popularity among those looking for a place to start in looking for a Linux based alternative to Windows, made it seem like an increasingly good place to start.

Die, not dice.

My A level mathematics course contains a module of statistics, in which probability is briefly covered.

Today, my maths teacher began to talk about the discrete nature of the result from the single throw of "a dice". My heart sank. Does the word 'die', as in the singular form of 'dice', really have to end its life in so undignified a way? It's not even a logical progression of the language; it doesn't make sense to use just one word, and it certainly doesn't sound any better.

Python Tips and Tricks

Here are a few handy tips and tricks, to use when writing in Python.

The First Month

I promised myself when we started this site that there wouldn't be any self-referencing posts like this one, so call me a hypocrite if you want. For the rest of you - here's the roundup for the first month of BlueSunCorp! This month we've had 48,469 visits from 44,677 unique users. That averages at about 1600 visits per day, and that's even counting the slow period when we first began. Things really started to pick up around mid November…

Answers in Genesis blames Evolution for shootings

"Finland School Shootings: The Sad Evolution Connection"

I'll pause to let you observe that heading for a second. This is the latest attack on evolution - AnswersInGenesis.org have asserted that Pekka-Eric Auvinen was not out of his mind, he was simply a Social Darwinist. Out of respect for the dead, I'm surprised they even tread near this topic, shamelessly using a tragedy to attempt to give evolution a bad name. Could it ever be possible for both sides of this so-called debate to stop reasoning based on the heinous acts of historical figures, or even modern day people, who have simply got it wrong? Even if the inquisition was in the name of Christianity, or if Hitler was an atheist, they're both completely irrelevant. I'm no Christian myself, but I at least recognise that those who do believe in a god mostly have the best in mind, and do have sound moral principles. Similarly, atheists don't feel empty inside, or lacking something. But this is an entirely seperate discussion; the point is, if religion or atheism should be criticised, it should be on the basis on whether it is rational - or not - to believe in an all powerful entity.

Computing Singularity

I read a great page today, detailing several ideas for how computing power - and artificial intelligence - will advance. Some of the concepts Eliezer S. Yudkowsky explores are flat out fascinating - so much so that I've written about a few of them, if you're interested in a synopsis of some of the things he has to say. "If computing speed is doubling every two years," he states, "What happens when computers are doing the research?"