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These tutorials focus mainly on OpenGL, Win32 programming and the ODE physics engine. OpenGL has moved on to great heights and I don't cover the newest features but cover all of the basic concepts you will need with working example programs.

Working with the Win32 API is a great way to get to the heart of Windows and is just as relevant today as ever before. Whereas ODE has been marginalized as hardware accelerated physics becomes more common.

Games and graphics utilities can be made quickly and easily using game engines like Unity so this and Linux development in general will be the focus of my next tutorials.

To the Children of the Modern Age and Beyond

By Alan Baylis

The truth is that everyone in power (by its very nature) wants to control us and therefore secure their position. Unfortunately for those without power they achieve this control through denying others to use the same path that led to their position of power. It may come in the form of denying the appropriate education or raising greatly the level needed. Either way, they will then claim that they came to their position through a great deal of learning or natural ability. They will also say that there is something special about themselves that gives them the right to power, such as their money, their looks, their inheritance or whatever else that those without power will believe. If it must be that anyone has power over the lives and minds of others they should be chosen according to their abilities and empathy with those they have power over.

In the modern age they have separated the education system. For those who can afford it there is a real education in the practical subjects such as electronics, mathematics and computers to name a few. For those who can't afford it there is an insubstantial education in the practical subjects with more emphasis placed on sports and the like; which are appropriate in moderation but do not provide information or jobs for the majority of the participants. It is no accident that the people have not been taught that it is with the information we put in that we make our decisions. Against all, those with an education and those without, those in power have sanctioned a blatantly persuasive media, which helps to divert the people away from any serious subject. The media, far from being a messenger of the truth, creates and stimulates false desires for unnecessary products. Through the media and advertising the powers have made the people forget that they are what they know and not what they own. The advertising now comes as entertainment, news and documentaries, overwhelming the people to make them believe that they would be less if they don't own the unnecessary products. The advertising is produced by followers of itself, so when someone produces an advert that condemns or lessens people for not using the product they see no harm in it. But the effects are compounding and people become divided between rival products, which creates tension among the people over products we don't really need. For those people that follow the advertising, they become contentious with the people that do not because it challenges their right to the self-esteem they thought they had purchased.

For more information read the Bible.