Here is a Tarot reading program I created inspired from this site:
http://houseof3d.com/pete/applets/tarot/tarot.html

It uses the Celtic Cross layout, but being too lazy to actually put the graphics and animation in properly, I just went for the quick and dirty task list and cards drawn.

You can give it a try here:
http://tiwaking.hostzi.com/tiwatarot/tiwatarot.html

You are meant to ask it a single query from the following list:
Love, Career, Health, Family, General, Money, Spiritual, Travel, Computer

Celtic Cross Layout

For more information about Tarot, you can visit this site:
Learning the Tarot

http://tiwaking.hostzi.com/tiwasteaser/tiwasteaser.html
A very simple game
You place one of three colour blocks: Red, Blue, Green.
Each block influences the colour of the surrounding blocks.
You can play music but I advise you do not.
You can play on Insane Difficulty but I advise you do not.

Match your grid with the Solution Grid in shown in the bottom panel.

Have fun!

Score: I dunno/10

Django Unchained is an oddly compelling, but ridiculously long movie about a freed slave who becomes a bounty hunter and tries to find his slave wife.

It is basically a western with slavery.

Pros:
Quite funny in parts
Ultra violent - spaghetti western, woop!
Has some surprising historical accuracies (Leonardo Di Caprio basically stating, verbatim, the 1850 American Psychology Manual about the inferiority of black people)
Lovable Characters

Cons:
Really long
Ultra violent - it practically turns into Scarface at one point, which just seems so random
Weird music - The music changes to all sorts of weird genres at different times

Actors
Jamie Foxx
Leonardo di Caprio (as a bad guy)
Samuel L Jackson (as a bad guy as well)

Having recently acquired a Mah Jong set I have been playing Mah Jong recently and found scoring hands to be quite a chore, especially if you are bad at math like myself.

Here is a simple program that will score hands in Mah Jong. It wont score special hands properly though since they are limit/half limit hands anyways.
The only actual java mah jong game (not that idiot solitaire version) I have found that is any good is this one:
edit: Whoops, messed up the link. Its missing a quotation mark
Mythosware Mah-Jong v1.0
------------------------

(C) Andrew Lawrenson 2010
http://www.mythosware.co.uk

Unfortunately the resolution to play it is something like 1400xsomething stupid which does nothing for the game.

p.s I have been working on Java Mah Jong since finding the previous one to be an unsuitable resolution, hence the screenshot from The Monopoly Thread which is a modified Mah Jong layout.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/03/disneys-john-carter?fsrc=scn/gp/wl/bl/thebiggestflopever
John Carter flop to cost Walt Disney $200m
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442200


Having recently rewatched Waterworld (the previously biggest flop ever) I was suprised to stumble on this beauty of an (allegedly) terrible movie.

Unfortunately it is 2 hours 15 minutes and it is meant to be all bad. If it makes it to NZ I might go see it for the infamy alone.

This thread is where you can find or post useful Java information, code snippets, tips or tricks.

I'll start with an amazingly useful tool:

Stephen G Wares incredible Sound to Class tool which turns a sound file to an independent, thread based .java file!
You should also check out the Image to Class file which is just below the previous link


My own contributions to this thread are:

Working with JApplets: Your guide to frustration ville

Applets and JApplets are horrible. They hate you. They laugh at your efforts to tame them and it just isnt worth bothering to use them


HOWEVER: If you are stubborn like me, and want a quick, easily distributed, NON-INTRUSIVE, SECURE and platform-independent method of getting your program out and about then they are a Godsend. A God which hates you and considers your efforts to spread your program to be pitiful at best, but a godsend nonetheless.


For starters: If you need file WRITE access, forget it

You will need to use CGI scripts to do so. If the server hosting your Applet has disabled cgi, forget it.


If you need file READ access, prepare for pain

Despite everything you read on the internets, you CAN initialise a FILE() object. HOWEVER:

You cannot read it and
You cannot write to it

This is akin to buying a dirty magazine and finding there is no cover art and the pages are solidly stuck together with some unidentifiable substance. It is about as disappointing too


What you need to do is to CHANGE your STRING file/folder path name into an INPUTSTREAM object BASED on the pathname. This is done as follows (spoilered to prevent cluttered thread):

BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(
this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(path));

Note that the getResourceAsStream() method returns a BufferedInputStream type

Now here is the fun bit: If you need a STRING from the file (like a filename or foldername)

public void convertStreamToString(InputStream is,String path){
    if (is != null) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line;
        ArrayListarray=new ArrayList();
            try{
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
                while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    sb.append(line).append("\n");
                }//while line=reader.ReadLine
                is.close();
            }catch(IOException in){
                System.err.println(in.toString(),"Error in Convert Stream To String!");
            }//catch
        }//if is != null
        System.out.print(sb.toString());
}//method
Simple? Well. Not really. If you need to get a list of all the FILES in a directory....well. That can be a story for another day


You can also retrieve IMAGES via the InputStream method as well
private ImageIcon loadImage(String path) {
    int MAX_IMAGE_SIZE = 240000;  //Change this to the size of
                                 //your biggest image, in bytes.
    int count=0;
    BufferedInputStream imgStream = new BufferedInputStream(
       this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(path));
            if (imgStream != null) {
                byte buf[] = new byte[MAX_IMAGE_SIZE];
                        try {
                            count = imgStream.read(buf);
                            imgStream.close();
                        } catch (java.io.IOException ioe) {
                        System.err.println("Couldn't read stream from file: " + path);
                        return null;
                        }
                if (count <= 0) {
                        System.err.println("Empty file: " + path);
                        return null;
                }
                return new ImageIcon(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(buf));
                } else {
                        System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + path);
                        return null;
                }//clse
}//method

In summation: Never forget that nextInt() will leave an empty string behind!

Edit: Edited with code tags and proper formatting

Recently I've been experimenting with various Rates and cl settings. I've actually found that THIS:
cl_updaterate 1 | cl_cmdrate 1 | rate "57344" | cl_rate "3440.64" | cl_interp 0.2

Is the best and most optimal for modems. A unfortunate side-effect is an unrealistic latency in the scoreboard of 5, but I've found that server 2 still displays your REAL ping! If anyone has any VALID comments about their 56k settings please post. I really would love HawkGTF and [hrt] Ranger to change their settings. They're laggy laggy buggers.

No modem bashing allowed and also 'upgrade to adsl' is NOT a valid comment

Also I have my less than comprehensive guide here http://www.geocities.com/tiwaking2/css.html

Retraction: I found out that I stuffed up my RATE on monday. Instead of 5600 I put in 56000. This is why my ping has been in the 1500's lately. In any case I've managed to fix it all. cl_updaterate 1 and cl_cmdrate 1 STILL seem to work with no problems at all, but for a more enjoyable game I now set them to update 30(half my max fps) and cmdrate 20(1/3'rd my fps) respectively