how is this funny? it works great. Also try running it through a de-ionized water bath, if you've got one handy. really, just allow the sucker to dry out when you're done.
in my experience with things like this (helped write a prototype system that did this at MITRE a few years ago), emoticons either get passed straight through or very garbled. Our French->English engine in particular was very picky about things like that and would routinely crash with stuff it didn't quite get.
I worked on a prototype system for MITRE's TrIM (translingual instant messenger) project I believe as early as December 2000. It's been a while now since I started on that project, so it's hard to remember. But I recall it being fairly early on in my time there, so the 2000 date seems about right. TrIM is still in use today and has grown amazingly since we first started it, and as others have mentioned there's a few other projects out there now that do similar things. If they ever try to go after someone, I don't think it'd hold.
in the end, it's whatever gets you laid that's important... seriously, that's the only way your genes are going to get passed on... you could have the best underwater eyesight or whatever, but if you can't get any, it's not going to do your species any good...
the saying is actually "walk in the park"... the boston accent consists largely of dropping the 'r' in certain words, so 'park' becomes 'pahk', which could conceivably be spelled 'pack'... as a boston resident, though not one with the accent, and a horrible speller myself, i found this amusing... no offense intended
totally... i hate storing my CDs out of their jewel cases... i've got ~300 music discs, some hundred or so pc discs, plus a growing DVD/console game library, and my wife's CD collection (about 100 slimline jewel cases)... it all fits quite nicely on the MM-504 rack, and like you said, it's actually open enough to not be overly dominant in the room...
I'd say it's about time for a Gentoo topic icon. We've been seeing a fair bit of press about this distribution lately (on here anyway). It has a very active developer and user community, and doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. I mean, if we've got a bunch of different icons for other distributions (including a bunch that no longer exist), why not Gentoo? For fairness, I'm still a Debian user, but I think they deserve a fair shake here now.
I recently heard Pual Graham speak at my university, giving this very same talk; or, rather, a foreshortened version of it. And I have to say that I agree with many of the points that he makes. I, however, have recently begun to think of hacking as a modern-day alchemy. Not only are you trying to create new things with techniques and skill (the latter is where the science and engineering really come into hacking, as well as painting), but you're also trying to determine what the rules are. In my experience, much of hacking is poking at something to see what it does, seeing if I could make X do Y, and then while also doing Z. Computer Science is really more related to the arcane sciences than the modern "hard sciences."
i think that the atmosphere i was in the first time i played the original Alone In The Dark game greatly contributed to an already creepy game with a *great* sense of timing to scare the crap out of you:
12 years old, with one other friend there
right around 3 am
in a 200-plus year-old farmhouse
that liked to settle... a lot
in late winter
in the middle of the woods of Maine
you can be sure that every single creak, bump, and other noise had my wide-eyed attention for the rest of that night...
Billionaires secretly building rockets and other spaceships isn't all that surprising; but a Slashdot editor using "than" properly in lieu of the much more popular "then"... now *that's* what I call news!
i'd suggest that you check with a local machine shop... my wife and i had a custom engraving on the outside of our rings... in hebrew text, it reads "Ani l'dodi v'dodi li", which translates to "i am my beloved, and my beloved is mine"... we live in Boston, and you think it'd be easy to find a jeweler here willing to do this engravement work... but, no... we wandered all around the city, and never came up with someone... most people either wouldn't be able to do the hebrew glyphs or they only knew how to engrave on the inside or a ring (huh?)... we ended up going through a tiny family-owned shop in my old home town in maine... the guy who runs it now was a full-time artist for a few years, and said "no problem" to our request, but it'd just take a bit to get a die made to help him do the actual engraving... luckily, my dad works as a designer for an automation company... he brought in a printout of the text we wanted and asked one of the CAD drafters to make up a template... they then downloaded it into the milling machines, with sufficient scaling to do the curves properly, and soon enough we had our engraving die cut into a nice chunk of aluminum stock... brought this into the jeweler, and he filed it down a bit, cleaned up the edges, and all things like that... the rings we had this done on are two-tone, with a wider gold ring in the middle and a plantinum band around the outside... he did the engraving right around the outside platinum band, sizing things appropriately for each ring (my ring is a size 11, my wife's is 6.5)... he even did the whole engraving thing for free, since he said he was making enough money on the plain rings not to worry about the extra work it required...
i emailed them about it, never heard back though... i did use a strip of theirs (SC + PA) as a wedding present for a friend of mine a while ago, and they thought it was awesome:)
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how is this funny? it works great. Also try running it through a de-ionized water bath, if you've got one handy. really, just allow the sucker to dry out when you're done.
I'll keep calling my Tungsten-W a "Palm" (though my wife refers to it as "your nag".)
At least you're (apparently) bright enough to not have it set the other way around.
*beepbeep* 6PM: Dinner with Your Nag
in an age of nanotechnology, it's a lot cheaper to just build a diamond lattice one molecule at a time than any more complex crystalline structure.
You might want to try reading the book Ordering Your Personal World
as anyone knows, you should replace the insecure rkansas with the ssl-enabled skansas as soon as possible.
in my experience with things like this (helped write a prototype system that did this at MITRE a few years ago), emoticons either get passed straight through or very garbled. Our French->English engine in particular was very picky about things like that and would routinely crash with stuff it didn't quite get.
I worked on a prototype system for MITRE's TrIM (translingual instant messenger) project I believe as early as December 2000. It's been a while now since I started on that project, so it's hard to remember. But I recall it being fairly early on in my time there, so the 2000 date seems about right. TrIM is still in use today and has grown amazingly since we first started it, and as others have mentioned there's a few other projects out there now that do similar things. If they ever try to go after someone, I don't think it'd hold.
exactly my point ... it's seen as a desirable trait by mates, who want to be able to feed families and whatnot ...
in the end, it's whatever gets you laid that's important ... seriously, that's the only way your genes are going to get passed on ... you could have the best underwater eyesight or whatever, but if you can't get any, it's not going to do your species any good ...
that was horrible... this is worse:
Baroque: When you are out of Monet.
the saying is actually "walk in the park" ... the boston accent consists largely of dropping the 'r' in certain words, so 'park' becomes 'pahk', which could conceivably be spelled 'pack' ... as a boston resident, though not one with the accent, and a horrible speller myself, i found this amusing ... no offense intended
a walk in the pack
:)
are you from boston, or something?
PowerGlove /= crap;
Runtime Error: Divide by zero.
As a general rule, anyone in the OSS community who is referred to by their 3 initials is likely to be nuts.
I agree. BT2 is definitely right-on with this one.
I wonder if you get charged for the specific number of computrons needed to process your bill.
Overused Matrix references. Lots of overused Matrix references.
totally ... i hate storing my CDs out of their jewel cases ... i've got ~300 music discs, some hundred or so pc discs, plus a growing DVD/console game library, and my wife's CD collection (about 100 slimline jewel cases) ... it all fits quite nicely on the MM-504 rack, and like you said, it's actually open enough to not be overly dominant in the room ...
I'd say it's about time for a Gentoo topic icon. We've been seeing a fair bit of press about this distribution lately (on here anyway). It has a very active developer and user community, and doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. I mean, if we've got a bunch of different icons for other distributions (including a bunch that no longer exist), why not Gentoo? For fairness, I'm still a Debian user, but I think they deserve a fair shake here now.
but MOO is a great language!
I recently heard Pual Graham speak at my university, giving this very same talk; or, rather, a foreshortened version of it. And I have to say that I agree with many of the points that he makes. I, however, have recently begun to think of hacking as a modern-day alchemy. Not only are you trying to create new things with techniques and skill (the latter is where the science and engineering really come into hacking, as well as painting), but you're also trying to determine what the rules are. In my experience, much of hacking is poking at something to see what it does, seeing if I could make X do Y, and then while also doing Z. Computer Science is really more related to the arcane sciences than the modern "hard sciences."
you can be sure that every single creak, bump, and other noise had my wide-eyed attention for the rest of that night
dude, you've got to admit that it's pretty sweet ... though i'd venture that the posters are possibly baked
From the more-fun-than-yachts department
Billionaires secretly building rockets and other spaceships isn't all that surprising; but a Slashdot editor using "than" properly in lieu of the much more popular "then"... now *that's* what I call news!
i'd suggest that you check with a local machine shop ... my wife and i had a custom engraving on the outside of our rings ... in hebrew text, it reads "Ani l'dodi v'dodi li", which translates to "i am my beloved, and my beloved is mine" ... we live in Boston, and you think it'd be easy to find a jeweler here willing to do this engravement work ... but, no ... we wandered all around the city, and never came up with someone ... most people either wouldn't be able to do the hebrew glyphs or they only knew how to engrave on the inside or a ring (huh?) ... we ended up going through a tiny family-owned shop in my old home town in maine ... the guy who runs it now was a full-time artist for a few years, and said "no problem" to our request, but it'd just take a bit to get a die made to help him do the actual engraving ... luckily, my dad works as a designer for an automation company ... he brought in a printout of the text we wanted and asked one of the CAD drafters to make up a template ... they then downloaded it into the milling machines, with sufficient scaling to do the curves properly, and soon enough we had our engraving die cut into a nice chunk of aluminum stock ... brought this into the jeweler, and he filed it down a bit, cleaned up the edges, and all things like that ... the rings we had this done on are two-tone, with a wider gold ring in the middle and a plantinum band around the outside ... he did the engraving right around the outside platinum band, sizing things appropriately for each ring (my ring is a size 11, my wife's is 6.5) ... he even did the whole engraving thing for free, since he said he was making enough money on the plain rings not to worry about the extra work it required ...
good luck, dude
i emailed them about it, never heard back though ... i did use a strip of theirs (SC + PA) as a wedding present for a friend of mine a while ago, and they thought it was awesome :)