It seems plausible, all the statistical and historical evidence back it up, but it's quite strange that even with this critical hint nobody has solved the mystery yet.
I have installed Chrome on my parent's computers. I myself use Chrome, even though I love Firefox's extensions.
The single reason for my switch: PERFORMANCE
Firefox takes many seconds to start (I have four extensions) and even scrolling seems slow. Want to zoom in a page? Go make yourself some coffee while you wait. And then comes the nasty Flash game that crashes or slows down the whole browser. Chrome seems to render pages at a fraction of the time and it takes a lot more open tabs to slow it down (hehe.)
Years ago, in Brazil, restaurants all over were sportings signs that read something along the lines of
Leftovers will be charged R$ 3,00
With the actual value varying, but ranging from 10% to 30% of the total amount.
This was illegal, but the owners a) didn't seem to care about the legal status and b) didn't actually enforce the rule.
In the end, those signs served as a harsh and unpopular (among the clients) reminder of not putting more on your plate than you can eat. Good intentions, bad execution.
I'm a college student that doesn't even have a full time job. I live in a third world country, making any amount in dollars almost twice as expensive for me. The only money I have in my PayPal account is from a single freelancer work I did some weeks ago. I don't remember ever paying for a PC game.
Yet I bought the bundle for $ 15.00.
Cheap? Yes, but I wouldn't have paid nothing otherwise. Am I the exception? I don't think so.
Well, one could use smooth-surface pieces around the Tetris blocks and there would be a hole in the wall at the level of the first block, so a mechanical arm could push the blocks on that line out of field. But that would require something else to hold the blocks together during the fall...
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The link leads to an "April Fools, congratulations on being so vigilant!" page.
If the clause was on the terms and conditions, where was this "opt-out box"? Maybe it was just a checkbox (as in "send me the newsletter"), not an actual terms and conditions clause?
Three friends recently spent an evening sharing drinks and exchanging insults at a local cafe in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng. Their companionable arguing continued for hours, until one man pulled out a 25-year-old unexploded anti-tank mine found in his backyard.
He tossed it under the table, and the three men began playing Russian roulette, each tossing down a drink and then stamping on the mine. The other villagers fled in terror.
Minutes later, the explosive detonated with a tremendous boom, killing the three men in the bar. "Their wives could not even find their flesh because the blast destroyed everything," the Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper reported.
You are trying to convince me that OOP is not related to inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation. Sure, you can do without it. But I don't care what Alan said about it, it's still a pretty damn important part of programming with classes and objects.
And Flash is not JIT. You get some flash code, compiles it using Flash or Flex into a.swf file and then you send that file to the server. With Javascript, you get some code and just send it to the server. See the difference?
I, again, don't care what the engine will use at the end. That's semantics, we would be arguing all the way down to the hardware. The important part is: to get your AS code running, you must put it through a compiler. This is important because it reveals syntax errors, for example, includes the currently present classes around it in the file and correct general simple programming mistakes ("this class doesn't have a foo property", "this variable is the wrong type", etc).
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I'm not sure I'm watching the right video. The one I saw is a congressmen reading a bill about response to *zombie* threats.
"Flesh eating," "airborne infection," "urban outbreak."
Please tell me I watched the wrong video.
+1 on that.
Worse yet, the big, ugly unmovable button takes a whole row all by itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript#Exotic_natural_language
It seems plausible, all the statistical and historical evidence back it up, but it's quite strange that even with this critical hint nobody has solved the mystery yet.
Voynich manuscript!
If only we could find a language that is similar enough...
Did you mean:
e^(i*tau)=1
That would be "GOOOOOOL."
"Golo" is the European Portuguese for the Brazilian Portuguese word "Gol."
Color, colour.
Actually, the fork's author only mention about the license in his blog post was:
This classic version didn’t have much to it, and what’s more it was licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. Fork’s Away!
If I read that correctly, he seemed happy about the license only because it allowed him to fork it.
I have installed Chrome on my parent's computers. I myself use Chrome, even though I love Firefox's extensions.
The single reason for my switch: PERFORMANCE
Firefox takes many seconds to start (I have four extensions) and even scrolling seems slow. Want to zoom in a page? Go make yourself some coffee while you wait. And then comes the nasty Flash game that crashes or slows down the whole browser. Chrome seems to render pages at a fraction of the time and it takes a lot more open tabs to slow it down (hehe.)
Leftovers will be charged R$ 3,00
With the actual value varying, but ranging from 10% to 30% of the total amount.
This was illegal, but the owners a) didn't seem to care about the legal status and b) didn't actually enforce the rule.
In the end, those signs served as a harsh and unpopular (among the clients) reminder of not putting more on your plate than you can eat. Good intentions, bad execution.
Ok, but I won't wait. Call me when it's on par and I'll happily switch.
After the purchase, I was asked which platforms I use. I ticked the Windows and Linux checkboxes.
How does this get translated to the graphs? Do they count my donation twice, one for Windows and other for Linux?
I'm a college student that doesn't even have a full time job. I live in a third world country, making any amount in dollars almost twice as expensive for me. The only money I have in my PayPal account is from a single freelancer work I did some weeks ago. I don't remember ever paying for a PC game.
Yet I bought the bundle for $ 15.00.
Cheap? Yes, but I wouldn't have paid nothing otherwise. Am I the exception? I don't think so.
If I had to take a guess, I would say it's because of the infamous "mailto:" default behavior.
jungle compounds down in Brazil
+3 Interesting? What, do you think this is the Lost island and we are stuck in the 16th century?
Well, one could use smooth-surface pieces around the Tetris blocks and there would be a hole in the wall at the level of the first block, so a mechanical arm could push the blocks on that line out of field. But that would require something else to hold the blocks together during the fall...
Am I the only who thought he was showing his HEART, not his "boobs"?
Big macs are fancy food at most third world countries. You can eat a good meal at a good restaurant for the same price.
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The link leads to an "April Fools, congratulations on being so vigilant!" page.
If the clause was on the terms and conditions, where was this "opt-out box"? Maybe it was just a checkbox (as in "send me the newsletter"), not an actual terms and conditions clause?
As a matter of curiosity, does it affect one's perception of the Uncanny Valley?
Three friends recently spent an evening sharing drinks and exchanging insults at a local cafe in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng. Their companionable arguing continued for hours, until one man pulled out a 25-year-old unexploded anti-tank mine found in his backyard.
He tossed it under the table, and the three men began playing Russian roulette, each tossing down a drink and then stamping on the mine. The other villagers fled in terror.
Minutes later, the explosive detonated with a tremendous boom, killing the three men in the bar. "Their wives could not even find their flesh because the blast destroyed everything," the Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper reported.
Thanks, I stand corrected.
You are trying to convince me that OOP is not related to inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation. Sure, you can do without it. But I don't care what Alan said about it, it's still a pretty damn important part of programming with classes and objects.
.swf file and then you send that file to the server. With Javascript, you get some code and just send it to the server. See the difference?
And Flash is not JIT. You get some flash code, compiles it using Flash or Flex into a
I, again, don't care what the engine will use at the end. That's semantics, we would be arguing all the way down to the hardware. The important part is: to get your AS code running, you must put it through a compiler. This is important because it reveals syntax errors, for example, includes the currently present classes around it in the file and correct general simple programming mistakes ("this class doesn't have a foo property", "this variable is the wrong type", etc).
How do we stop?
Disturb him some more and he might never submit another of his solutions to the world.