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You find Lua in bunches of games and some other desktop software. The problem with creating a forum specifically for Lua is that the vast majority of questions are going to be dependent on the game it's used in and not the language itself. The knowledge base for those particular games/software will be very small. That is better left up to a forum dedicated to that game/software.
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I'm getting kind of tired always slowly raising my hand when someone asks, "Who does something like that?!?”
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Feel free to blame me instead - Herself does it all the time, so I'm used to it... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Its one of the burdens of being married I believe, or it was in my case. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Who does something like that?!?
This quote comes to mind as I am finally getting around to setting up the new laptop. It has been really bugging me that to use the default functions for the Function keys, I have to press the Fn key!!! It makes for great fun whilst stepping through code or even just refreshing a web page. I just checked and it seems to be a bios setting...but still, why? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Did your laptop maker get rid of the menu key and replace it with the print screen key like mine did?
Hey Lenovo, get rid of the silly little red button stick and give me back my functional menu key!
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Nah, just the Fn key was backward, having to press the Fn key to activate the 'default' actions for the Fn keys. It's the first laptop I've seen setup like that. At least it was easy enough to switch in the BIOS. I'm seriously considering hooking up a real keyboard to it anyway, at least when using it in the office.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Is a sh*t beer.
But when you're at your niece's 16th birthday and it's Corona or Peroni Leggera it's Corona all night long.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Could be worse: you could be stuck with Fosters or XXXX... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sander Rossel wrote: the best beer is no beer at all
Nurse! Nurse! He's out of bed again!
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It seems specimen 9082365 has escaped...
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Corona == Mexican Budweiser
But I accept nearly any other cerveza.
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Perhaps you ought to contact Anele 'Mash' Mbanga (see entry entitled 'Please include Lua Programming Language' (two topics above) who is writing an SDK specifically for Corona
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Everw single time I need to print something out at home, the damn printer takes 10 freaking minutes "cleaning the printing heads" or whatever other elephanting piece of printer. (HP Officejet 6700).
Printing is expensive enough, I don't need half of my cartridges be sucked into oblivion every time I start the machine.
Home printers is an industry runned by doomed people : guys, I hate you so much. 
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Home printing definitely sucks if you need colour printing and cannot afford a colour laser printer.
I don't print in colour and a laser brother printer has served me well for the past 8 years - the toner cartridges are cheap in comparison to inkjet cartridges and they last a long time.
If you don't need colour consider getting yourself a laser printer.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Home printing definitely sucks if you need colour printing and cannot afford a colour laser printer.
I swore off bubble-jet printers when the last set of cartridges I bought dried up before I ever got a chance to use them. I paid $100 for my color laser (HP LaserJet Pro CP 1025), and have never been tempted by another bubble-jet since.
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Get an Epson - the ink tank is separate from the print head (they use a different technology, HP is a "bubble jet" which used heat to expel the ink, Epson uses piezo technology licensed from XAAR) so when the ink runs out, you change the just tank, not the head and it it's a lot cheaper. And it doesn't need cleaning so often.
I find that provided I print reasonably regularly - weekly in high summer - it just works, and doesn't dry out and need cleaning at all.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have a Canon multifunction printer scanner copier. It can't scan without ink cartridges installed  Copying I can understand, but why disable photo / document scanning. It's pretty noisy as well and also does the unnecessary print head cleaning. It's auto double sided printing is pretty cool though and the scanning software works well in separating and auto rotating multiple scanned pics.
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Jacquers wrote: It can't scan without ink cartridges installed
Do not get me started on that...
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Apparently there are workarounds for that though - holding in the stop button until the error goes away.
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Why? Simple: money.
If you don't have cartridges - or they are empty - you haven't given enough money to the manufacturer's yet! 
Ink is where the money is, most printer manufacturers are happy to sell the printer at cost or below, because they will make huge profits on the ink. When I was involved with industrial ink jet printers, we bought ink at £20/l and sold it at £115 for 110ml... There is serious money in consumables!
What, did you think it was lazy programming? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah it's a travesty. Printers used to just print. Now for various reasons manufactures might cite as necessary we have to first endure this side show.
We have an HP somthin or other in a spare bedroom down the hall from where I sit n' code. We live in the woods and every time my wife sends a print job it sound just like a racoon in the trash can. I kid you not. I am only just now just getting used to it that it's just a print job Ron, and not a critter in your house.
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You get to buy the hardware at or below the manufacturer's cost. For the all-in-one models you get a scanner and a copier built-in. They only make a profit when you buy ink. In my experience, I get 30-50 pages out of a set of cartridges, where I'm printing at around 25% coverage. That comes to around $0.65 per page. I don't think that's unreasonable.
Folks, you should be impressed that your printer works at all, given the conditions you've described. You leave your printer powered up for weeks on end, and you complain if it cleans the printhead before you start? Those nozzles dry out very quickly, since you insist on ink that doesn't soak the paper. Clogged nozzles will not help your print quality. I'm amazed how well these little things work, given the quick-and-dirty nozzle flush that their 'clean' operation does.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I can print about 10 pages with a set of cartridges, so 65€. This is 6,5€/page. If only one cartridge is empty, you cannot print anymore. I have used color twice in three years, but had to replace all color cartridges five times -> they got emptied only by the cleaning.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: you complain if it cleans the printhead before you start
Yes, I complain. What's the "best" use case then ? Do I have to print one picture every day so that "ink does not dry out" ? This is just ridiculous. And the "I can't scan because a cartridge is empty ?". Seriously.
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