I beg to differ: Google is moving at a snails pace in allowing devs from all over the world to market android apps. MS, for all their idiocy and frankly disgusting litigious nature, have already accepted devs from the majority of countries in the world to put paid apps on its store even though the platform isn't even properly ready yet!!!
There is one thing that Microsoft frequently gets right that Google can learn from - Developers! Developers! Developers. I did bitch and moan about this (and no doubt will continue to do so) on my blog (see sig if you're *really* interested).
Google cannot hope to stay relevant if all it allows from the majority of devs are free apps on its market, and since most users don't care to load other markets, devs aren't going to bother with a platform that doesn't let them sell.
You're both wrong. Round sockets (in general) became standardised by the germans during WW2 because they were faster to make. Simply drill a hole into the case of whatever electronic device you were making. Square ports were fucking difficult to cut into enclosures (still are - I tend to use round ports in my projects whenever I can simply because they are easier to make).
Also, this is really good whiskey I've got here - my sister gave me a bottle to give me dad next time I flew down to visit, only he got a heart attack before I went, so now I'm sitting at my desk with an almost finished bottle of 25 year old single malt scotch.
IOW, I may be talking shit:-)
And sir, if you can't feel the intensity of 'Love the Way you Lie,' you're emotionally dead inside. What other song captures so well the emotion of murderously disfunctional relationship? If that's not your thing, that that's fine, but the craftsmanship is undeniable.
Of course its undeniable - she didn't write it, so yeash - there is a lot of talent behind it, but not hers.
If you're having trouble hearing the raw Rihanna edge, check out this cover for a comparison. Notice how much trouble the girl in the cover has dealing with the repeated sequences (where it has the same phrase over and over with different words). In the cover it just falls flat.
Wait, what? Were you aiming for +5Funny? The linked performance is actually quite good, sure the song is not as "powerful", but this *is* an acoustic cover. The "power" you think you hear from the original is from the drum machine. This vocal performance surpasses the Rhianna version by far.
Get a wireless mouse and use the arm of the couch or the cushion next to you as a mouse pad surface. I used to do that all the time in my Lazy Boy recliner with my laptop.
In that case get a desktop case and leave it by the television set. Cheaper by far, and you can still use it for things other than games (Movies?)
Because it doesn't work? There is no generic LaTeX to HTML convertor out there, and all of them handle only specific use-cases.
AMEN!
You cannot convert TeX to anything other than DVI/ps/pdf without getting a mess. Embarrassing. While it does produce incredibly beautiful printed output, note that very few of us are reading printed anymore. Most of us are reading the TeX output on computers, not on paper
I decided to write my own, without all the disadvantages of TeX[1], but with as many of the benefits as possible[2]
I did a tiny prototype last September (was in hospital for a week, had nothing else to do) in Lisp that read in my special "eBook-format" files, handled the trivial cases and could spit out LaTeX, HTML, plain text (with as much of the original formatting as possible) and a dynamic HTML/javascript file that had the content as well as the
ability to honour the interactive portions (like placing bookmarks, making annotations, etc).
[1] Namely, inability to convert to common document formats, no support for images (its an add-on), no support for output in popular formats, no support for dynamic content with "onclick" or "onkey" macros (Yes - this is needed - it allows the reader to annotate the book, place bookmarks, etc), an inconsistent language, etc... All of these were not an issue when TeX was conceived and created, they are now as we no longer use non-interactive paper to read our books.
[2]A macro language, focus on content not presentation, styles, etc
Sigh. I wish I had a contract - my app has been live now on Amazon for 4 days or so, and I've yet to have a single download. How does one go marketing an app anyway? I'd have preferred to put it into googles marketplace, but they don't pay royalties to South African developers (guess what I am!).
I'm not sure about the 0x13 bios call, there was a reason nobody (including that DOS write-string call) used it.
Yes. Yes there was. It was slow. Very very slow. So, we simply wrote to whatever framebuffer was available depending on the graphics card that was installed. Much faster.
Well, he kinda had a point (according to his logic, anyway). I can sort of see the way his thinking ran: If you need to double something, its for a reason, right? Lets say that the reason is an achievement in a game, or a financial result of something... whatever it is is irrelevant - lets call it FOO
Then, instead of writing this
/* Implement FOO */
int x = y * 2;
or this
#define FOO_MULTIPLIER (2)
int x = y * FOO_MULTIPLIER;
We should rather do this
#define FOO(src) (src * 2)
int x = FOO (y);
Of course, I regularly include magic numbers in my code wherever it makes sense, and I simply cannot see myself using a constant for what should be obvious, and if it isn't all that obvious, a macro with arguments makes more sense than a macro without.
I wonder if Dr Bob, DC realised he started a whole new slashdot meme, one thats a little more cerebral than gay niggers and more lengthy than natalie portman/soviet russia/etc.
I also wonder how many mods are going to see only the N-word of this post and mod accordingly
Up to a point, yes, but... could simply be that their security was better at the time they got the insurance, and then deteriorated, in which case the insurance company can reasonably take issue with 100% liability.
As an analogy, for example, I insured my car at the beginning of the year when the tyres still had more than the minimum legally required tread depth. I've covered about 30000km since then, my tyres[1] are no longer street-legal. If I now get involved in an accident due to being unable to stop in time, my insurance would (quite reasonably) refuse to pay me 100% of the insured value.
The liability insurance is for my lack of judgement while driving. I will need different insurance (and possibly won't find any takers) if I want to insure against my lack of maintenance of the car.
[1] Tyres were replaced last week, before they wore below the minimum tread depth that is legally required
Good to hear:-). If I weren't an atheist I'd probably say something like "may god be with you" or similar - the best I can do is "I'm a dad too - lets form a group to deal with those who advocate culling our children for their(childless) benefit!". Still, as long as she's happy, theres not much more to worry about right now:-)
You're wrong. Rather, you're doing it wrong - the reason analog is faster on car speedometres is because you don't have to read it. Peripheral vision gives an an approximate speed just by the gradient of the line - no need to look at it directly or read it. With digital you have to read it, peripheral vision won't help.
So stop trying to "read" the analog speedo, just drive and your vision will take in the gradient of the line.
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I beg to differ: Google is moving at a snails pace in allowing devs from all over the world to market android apps. MS, for all their idiocy and frankly disgusting litigious nature, have already accepted devs from the majority of countries in the world to put paid apps on its store even though the platform isn't even properly ready yet!!!
There is one thing that Microsoft frequently gets right that Google can learn from - Developers! Developers! Developers. I did bitch and moan about this (and no doubt will continue to do so) on my blog (see sig if you're *really* interested).
Google cannot hope to stay relevant if all it allows from the majority of devs are free apps on its market, and since most users don't care to load other markets, devs aren't going to bother with a platform that doesn't let them sell.
You're both wrong. Round sockets (in general) became standardised by the germans during WW2 because they were faster to make. Simply drill a hole into the case of whatever electronic device you were making. Square ports were fucking difficult to cut into enclosures (still are - I tend to use round ports in my projects whenever I can simply because they are easier to make).
:-)
Also, this is really good whiskey I've got here - my sister gave me a bottle to give me dad next time I flew down to visit, only he got a heart attack before I went, so now I'm sitting at my desk with an almost finished bottle of 25 year old single malt scotch.
IOW, I may be talking shit
And sir, if you can't feel the intensity of 'Love the Way you Lie,' you're emotionally dead inside. What other song captures so well the emotion of murderously disfunctional relationship? If that's not your thing, that that's fine, but the craftsmanship is undeniable.
Of course its undeniable - she didn't write it, so yeash - there is a lot of talent behind it, but not hers.
If you're having trouble hearing the raw Rihanna edge, check out this cover for a comparison. Notice how much trouble the girl in the cover has dealing with the repeated sequences (where it has the same phrase over and over with different words). In the cover it just falls flat.
Wait, what? Were you aiming for +5Funny? The linked performance is actually quite good, sure the song is not as "powerful", but this *is* an acoustic cover. The "power" you think you hear from the original is from the drum machine. This vocal performance surpasses the Rhianna version by far.
Mango is not going to magically give you 3x battery life compared to iOS or Android.
Its also not gonna give you multi-tasking. Nor any of the myriad of things developers have gotten used to in Android.
Get a wireless mouse and use the arm of the couch or the cushion next to you as a mouse pad surface. I used to do that all the time in my Lazy Boy recliner with my laptop.
In that case get a desktop case and leave it by the television set. Cheaper by far, and you can still use it for things other than games (Movies?)
Because it doesn't work? There is no generic LaTeX to HTML convertor out there, and all of them handle only specific use-cases.
AMEN!
You cannot convert TeX to anything other than DVI/ps/pdf without getting a mess. Embarrassing. While it does produce incredibly beautiful printed output, note that very few of us are reading printed anymore. Most of us are reading the TeX output on computers, not on paper
I decided to write my own, without all the disadvantages of TeX[1], but with as many of the benefits as possible[2]
I did a tiny prototype last September (was in hospital for a week, had nothing else to do) in Lisp that read in my special "eBook-format" files, handled the trivial cases and could spit out LaTeX, HTML, plain text (with as much of the original formatting as possible) and a dynamic HTML/javascript file that had the content as well as the ability to honour the interactive portions (like placing bookmarks, making annotations, etc).
[1] Namely, inability to convert to common document formats, no support for images (its an add-on), no support for output in popular formats, no support for dynamic content with "onclick" or "onkey" macros (Yes - this is needed - it allows the reader to annotate the book, place bookmarks, etc), an inconsistent language, etc... All of these were not an issue when TeX was conceived and created, they are now as we no longer use non-interactive paper to read our books.
[2]A macro language, focus on content not presentation, styles, etc
Sigh. I wish I had a contract - my app has been live now on Amazon for 4 days or so, and I've yet to have a single download. How does one go marketing an app anyway? I'd have preferred to put it into googles marketplace, but they don't pay royalties to South African developers (guess what I am!).
Shameless plug anyway
Its only a lot of extra work if they did it poorly in the first place. It is, in fact, a little bit of extra work if they did it properly.
Design for console, then port to pc.
Vs 59% for random.
I'm not sure about the 0x13 bios call, there was a reason nobody (including that DOS write-string call) used it.
Yes. Yes there was. It was slow. Very very slow. So, we simply wrote to whatever framebuffer was available depending on the graphics card that was installed. Much faster.
Well, he kinda had a point (according to his logic, anyway). I can sort of see the way his thinking ran: If you need to double something, its for a reason, right? Lets say that the reason is an achievement in a game, or a financial result of something ... whatever it is is irrelevant - lets call it FOO
Then, instead of writing this
int x = y * 2;
or this
#define FOO_MULTIPLIER (2)
int x = y * FOO_MULTIPLIER;
We should rather do this
#define FOO(src) (src * 2)
int x = FOO (y);
Of course, I regularly include magic numbers in my code wherever it makes sense, and I simply cannot see myself using a constant for what should be obvious, and if it isn't all that obvious, a macro with arguments makes more sense than a macro without.
If only I could sell my app on google market
Sigh
I wonder if Dr Bob, DC realised he started a whole new slashdot meme, one thats a little more cerebral than gay niggers and more lengthy than natalie portman/soviet russia/etc.
I also wonder how many mods are going to see only the N-word of this post and mod accordingly
Add me as a friend!
(please?)
Up to a point, yes, but ... could simply be that their security was better at the time they got the insurance, and then deteriorated, in which case the insurance company can reasonably take issue with 100% liability.
As an analogy, for example, I insured my car at the beginning of the year when the tyres still had more than the minimum legally required tread depth. I've covered about 30000km since then, my tyres[1] are no longer street-legal. If I now get involved in an accident due to being unable to stop in time, my insurance would (quite reasonably) refuse to pay me 100% of the insured value.
The liability insurance is for my lack of judgement while driving. I will need different insurance (and possibly won't find any takers) if I want to insure against my lack of maintenance of the car.
[1] Tyres were replaced last week, before they wore below the minimum tread depth that is legally required
Wait, what?
I've played it through 3 times now, last time on hardest, and found it quite good even at the end. What are you talking about?
Good to hear :-). If I weren't an atheist I'd probably say something like "may god be with you" or similar - the best I can do is "I'm a dad too - lets form a group to deal with those who advocate culling our children for their(childless) benefit!". Still, as long as she's happy, theres not much more to worry about right now :-)
Hey, I'm genuinely sorry to hear that, man :-(
lelanthran at gmail
TIA
They deserve it. When you post information on the facebook, don't complain when someone reads it.
And you resent the "macho" label?
What's your instrument, sport? You guys play the standards? I love hearing about other slashdotters who are real musicians.
Not a real musician, but still a slashdotter :-)
You're wrong. Rather, you're doing it wrong - the reason analog is faster on car speedometres is because you don't have to read it. Peripheral vision gives an an approximate speed just by the gradient of the line - no need to look at it directly or read it. With digital you have to read it, peripheral vision won't help.
So stop trying to "read" the analog speedo, just drive and your vision will take in the gradient of the line.