Also had another friend who was studying to become a dentist there and he told me that fluoride was not included in toothpaste products made in Japan. Some nonsense about toxic effects; the result is most Japanese have horrible teeth.
Right, they have the excellent translation of the American documentary, Dr. Strangelove, to thank for that idea..
Considering that the customers of both expect you to work miracles without paying attention to the cost at the beginning, then scream about how much it cost after the fact? I think gov't contract work, I/T and health care are all on the same footing..;)
vi users do, and despite hopping rather constantly between vi and modeless editors that follow the de facto screen editor standards used by MacOS and Windows, I find I can manipulate text faster and with more precision using these decision trees than I can using a mouse and the more rudimentary commands provided.
Does vi have an obnoxious learning curve? Yes. Is vi inefficient, once you have mastered it? No.
Dunno, they've been in business quite a bit longer than any other major Linux supporter, excepting IBM. I don't think Novell will be disappearing any time soon.
Not so much missed, as deliberately omitted. Gosling has made this sort of statement in the past without discussing the distinctions between managed code, unmanaged code, and contrasting it with Java's sandbox and type verification features. The article author has made a very obvious omission in not mentioning the finer points of the issue, and simply stating Gosling's assertation.
It's a marketing fluff piece, in favor of Sun. It's on ZDNet, which is about as well known for hard hitting journalism as.. What? Good Morning America?
Right. And I still use a thermal pad for that one to avoid scalding my left wrist after a long work session in the field. They got it in there, but just barely..;)
Unfortunately, this would require parents taking an active interest in their children, and not blaming film makers and theater owners for corrupting junior.
This sort of behavior is a little easier to cope with, using DARCS, which supports a more anarchic model of many people incestuously forking repositories, passing around patches, etc. Darcs doesn't force you to maintain a central repository or inflict a directory scheme, making it really very friendly for migrating existing projects into the system*.
After having both arch and svn meltdowns, I have moved my projects to darcs, and have been pretty happy with it, since -- I just wish Sourceforge supported it better.
(* The one exception being DARCS's case insensitivity for file names. )
There are plenty of wikis out there that provide revisioning, change logging and annotate these changes with user information -- MediaWiki is extremely strong for this, but has a steep learning curve. Cloud Wiki does this, too, but is a lot newer and not as widely deployed as MediaWiki.
With Microsoft Exchange becoming less favored in many corporate datacenters, and the threat of open source PIMs coming to Windows, like Evolution or Chandler, this change has the appearance of Microsoft making an effort to convince people to use servers they control to store PIM data and messages.
This gives Microsoft an excellent lock-in strategy, further down the road -- not only would you have to change email addresses to change clients, you would have to rebuild your contact database, transfer your calendar items, etc.
The only part that I find surprising, here, is that Microsoft would bother charging for the service. Why not make it free, then turn it to a pay service when they have properly locked up your data in their servers?
One of the last standing feature points for Solaris has over most other OS's is first tier support by Sun's JRE's -- it is Sun's best interest to confuse and cripple any efforts to make ports of the VM that make good use of the host operating system's strengths, to protect what is becoming the last good reason to use Solaris in the datacenter.
Sun's SCSL was originally a poorly considered defense against a licensee trying to pull the same embrace, pervert and promote strategy that Microsoft employed with their JVM, but it has become a way for Sun to try to make some money off its competitors with convoluted license issues.
To Hit is based off your weapon skill, compared to the defensive skill of the defender, and is supposed to be about 95% for a single weapon wielder engaging a target of equivalent skill; dual wielders experience a much diminished 75% accuracy as a penalty in the same situation.
There are, of course, a tremendous number of mitigating factors. The dodge ability is pretty widely distributed through the classes, and the parry and block abilities also provide other ways to fail. These are compared against your weapon skill and the skill being checked.
As the parent poster states, Armor has little to do with it in this respect. Missing is actually pretty rare, but parrying and dodging makes it seem more frequent. You certainly seem to get a more lively combat than just watching Grognarr the Barbarian whiff-whiff-whiffing while he tries to hit an elephant.
For a different audience, your selection of tools would probably be more intriguing, but its mention in the article, here, just invites a little good natured amusement from me.
Your daring selection of the GPL-like Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license is commendable -- as you pointed out most of the free beer projects I pointed out above are commercial efforts which all exert some modicum of control over derived works in the style of WotC's OGL.
I find Paranoia XP's development process, namely the use of a Wiki to develop the rough draft, a lot more intriguing than "We used the following word processor.."
For free-as-in-beer games out there, Active Exploits is a good diceless game, and their more traditional Impresa system is good for people who are easily frightened by games that take away the dice.
Another GM in our RPG group is currently using JAGS, which I find to be a horrible system but it seems to appeal to GURPS masochists.
That would be the one that only builds and runs on pre-X MacOS, and hasn't shown any appreciable change in two years?
The Cat was a great device, and there's no argument that Raskin was a great contributor, back in the 80's.. But, since then, he's been little more than a pundit.
Walls of water 300 feet high would travel to the US at the speed of a jet.
Within three hours, the wave would swamp the east coast of Africa, within five hours it would reach southern England and within 12 it could hit America's east coast.
First off, a disclaimer.. IANAG, IANAP, and IANAO. (I am not a geologist, physicist, or geologist.) But, unless something is dramatically different about rocks and water, F = ma, and the laws of conservation of energy still apply. How is an object of this mass, compared to the mass of the ocean, going to generate a swell 300 feet high that will maintain its height when it reaches the US shore? While I don't remember the formulas for predicting wave propagation, I'm pretty damn sure that attenuation over that distance would be pretty steep. A couple extra inches in a few swells isn't exactly going to overwhelm our shoreline.
I think Slashdot's been trolled by the Beeb, here..
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Considering that the customers of both expect you to work miracles without paying attention to the cost at the beginning, then scream about how much it cost after the fact? I think gov't contract work, I/T and health care are all on the same footing.. ;)
It is always amusing, when someone condemns Americans for narcissism on Slashdot, at least one reply assumes it is one party's fault or the other.
I can infer that, if yl 'yanks' a line, and yw yanks a word, and dl deletes a line, that dw deletes a word. Intuitive enough for me.
vi users do, and despite hopping rather constantly between vi and modeless editors that follow the de facto screen editor standards used by MacOS and Windows, I find I can manipulate text faster and with more precision using these decision trees than I can using a mouse and the more rudimentary commands provided.
Does vi have an obnoxious learning curve? Yes. Is vi inefficient, once you have mastered it? No.
Dunno, they've been in business quite a bit longer than any other major Linux supporter, excepting IBM. I don't think Novell will be disappearing any time soon.
You got my $5.
Not so much missed, as deliberately omitted. Gosling has made this sort of statement in the past without discussing the distinctions between managed code, unmanaged code, and contrasting it with Java's sandbox and type verification features. The article author has made a very obvious omission in not mentioning the finer points of the issue, and simply stating Gosling's assertation.
It's a marketing fluff piece, in favor of Sun. It's on ZDNet, which is about as well known for hard hitting journalism as.. What? Good Morning America?
Right. And I still use a thermal pad for that one to avoid scalding my left wrist after a long work session in the field. They got it in there, but just barely.. ;)
Unfortunately, this would require parents taking an active interest in their children, and not blaming film makers and theater owners for corrupting junior.
This sort of behavior is a little easier to cope with, using DARCS, which supports a more anarchic model of many people incestuously forking repositories, passing around patches, etc. Darcs doesn't force you to maintain a central repository or inflict a directory scheme, making it really very friendly for migrating existing projects into the system*.
After having both arch and svn meltdowns, I have moved my projects to darcs, and have been pretty happy with it, since -- I just wish Sourceforge supported it better.
(* The one exception being DARCS's case insensitivity for file names. )
There are plenty of wikis out there that provide revisioning, change logging and annotate these changes with user information -- MediaWiki is extremely strong for this, but has a steep learning curve. Cloud Wiki does this, too, but is a lot newer and not as widely deployed as MediaWiki.
With Microsoft Exchange becoming less favored in many corporate datacenters, and the threat of open source PIMs coming to Windows, like Evolution or Chandler, this change has the appearance of Microsoft making an effort to convince people to use servers they control to store PIM data and messages.
This gives Microsoft an excellent lock-in strategy, further down the road -- not only would you have to change email addresses to change clients, you would have to rebuild your contact database, transfer your calendar items, etc.
The only part that I find surprising, here, is that Microsoft would bother charging for the service. Why not make it free, then turn it to a pay service when they have properly locked up your data in their servers?
One of the last standing feature points for Solaris has over most other OS's is first tier support by Sun's JRE's -- it is Sun's best interest to confuse and cripple any efforts to make ports of the VM that make good use of the host operating system's strengths, to protect what is becoming the last good reason to use Solaris in the datacenter.
Sun's SCSL was originally a poorly considered defense against a licensee trying to pull the same embrace, pervert and promote strategy that Microsoft employed with their JVM, but it has become a way for Sun to try to make some money off its competitors with convoluted license issues.
It would have to be, to prefer American television, which must be a close runner up..
imight. Them spaces are expensive.
Bah. There were plenty of rules in Paranoia, you must not have sufficient clearance to know about them.. Er.. Forget I said anything!
To Hit is based off your weapon skill, compared to the defensive skill of the defender, and is supposed to be about 95% for a single weapon wielder engaging a target of equivalent skill; dual wielders experience a much diminished 75% accuracy as a penalty in the same situation.
There are, of course, a tremendous number of mitigating factors. The dodge ability is pretty widely distributed through the classes, and the parry and block abilities also provide other ways to fail. These are compared against your weapon skill and the skill being checked.
As the parent poster states, Armor has little to do with it in this respect. Missing is actually pretty rare, but parrying and dodging makes it seem more frequent. You certainly seem to get a more lively combat than just watching Grognarr the Barbarian whiff-whiff-whiffing while he tries to hit an elephant.
For a different audience, your selection of tools would probably be more intriguing, but its mention in the article, here, just invites a little good natured amusement from me.
Your daring selection of the GPL-like Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license is commendable -- as you pointed out most of the free beer projects I pointed out above are commercial efforts which all exert some modicum of control over derived works in the style of WotC's OGL.
I find Paranoia XP's development process, namely the use of a Wiki to develop the rough draft, a lot more intriguing than "We used the following word processor.."
For free-as-in-beer games out there, Active Exploits is a good diceless game, and their more traditional Impresa system is good for people who are easily frightened by games that take away the dice.
Another GM in our RPG group is currently using JAGS, which I find to be a horrible system but it seems to appeal to GURPS masochists.
( I can't resist the troll.. )
;)
He did say they were using embedded perl.
Perhaps what we need is a +1 Accurate, and a -1 Obvious moderation?
That would be the one that only builds and runs on pre-X MacOS, and hasn't shown any appreciable change in two years?
The Cat was a great device, and there's no argument that Raskin was a great contributor, back in the 80's.. But, since then, he's been little more than a pundit.
First off, a disclaimer.. IANAG, IANAP, and IANAO. (I am not a geologist, physicist, or geologist.) But, unless something is dramatically different about rocks and water, F = ma, and the laws of conservation of energy still apply. How is an object of this mass, compared to the mass of the ocean, going to generate a swell 300 feet high that will maintain its height when it reaches the US shore? While I don't remember the formulas for predicting wave propagation, I'm pretty damn sure that attenuation over that distance would be pretty steep. A couple extra inches in a few swells isn't exactly going to overwhelm our shoreline.
I think Slashdot's been trolled by the Beeb, here..
It's sad that most people are going to miss this joke. Great movie. =)