You can just click on "Parent" and you will see the parent. That's also a hint that the comment has a parent, so if the parent is low-scored you don't see it by default, but you can choose to do so if you want.
I did something similar for a friend, helping him pick up women on IRC. The bot learned his usual questions and if they answered about 10 questions, it meant they were interested in him and the bot would forward the conversation to him and he continued it. Another time, I wrote an IRC bot for myself; it would act as a man-in-the-middle to pick up women by getting female nicknames and then forwarding the messages it got to other female-like nicknames it detected. If the conversation went long enough, it forwarded everything to me and I would pick up the chat from there.
I'm sorry the mods missed your comment, because I think it is very interesting. Words like "please" and "thanks" will probably give you links to sites with content generated by polite users.
Wrong! Ask them what they want to learn to do with the computer. Or ask them what they do most and give them an open-source software solution, where they can easily learn by improving existing code.
This is just the next line of food additives that attempt to make food into something that it's not.
Proof, pls. kthxbai.
Nothing new here really. We've had diet food before, we'll have more of it in the future.
Really? Nothing new?
The taste might actually improve too.
So improvements in taste is nothing new?
Why don't we focus on improving our diets so that they actually include healthy foods? There's a lot of food out there that's healthy for us that doesn't taste like cardboard.
That food is also quite expensive. It either costs a lot of time, a lot of processing or a lot of space. Also, TFA implies that this nanofood-thingy might have the potency to make cheap (crap) food healthier! Why change your diet to a different kind of food when you could have the same kind, but a bit different, so that it doesn't harm you as much? As long as you like the taste, your body gets the right amount of energy and it doesn't harm you... what else could be wrong with what you eat? The fact that it's not natural doesn't make it bad. Shit additives the manufacturers are using these days makes it bad. If we can improve those additives, I don't see what's wrong with eating plastic. Again: So fking what if it's not natural?
Why would someone want mayonnaise for something other than fat? Here's an idea: maybe because you're a selfish ass and people just like the taste of mayo. And talk about messing with logic and blatant lying: who said there wasn't anything healthy in potato chips? What does that have to do with making the product healthier? Healthier === less bad for you. It has absolutely nothing to do with making something that already is healthy into something even more healthy. Go suck a dirty sock.
What would be the point of publishing a 500 MB (@~11 chars/user) text file? And how would they do that? If anyone gives a shit about their account, they'll just change their password as soon as they hear about this.
Also, let's do some statistics, shall we? Let's say there are 20 million WoW accounts (pulled the number out of my ass, Wikipedia said 12 million in 2008). There are also 0.2 million stolen WoW accounts. The chance of your account being compromised is 100:1. Pretty high, if you ask me, so just scan your computer online with an antivirus if you don't have one installed, change your password and stop asking for stupid stuff in the name of the community (what community?!?).
And Google has been logging me out lately for absolutely no reason! In the past year, I've been "kicked" out of my session at least once a month, sometimes even two-three times in a single day. I'm already used to being asked to type all my passwords to iGoogle, Google Reader, Gmail, YouTube. I would NEVER think that a tab should have the right to take over another tab. Whatever the excuse is, this is just wrong!
But the build scripts were not written by us. They are general-purpose build scripts, written by a third party for which we paid and we don't have the right to distribute them to anyone. Oh, my! Did I just say general-purpose? I'm sorry, but you can't have them and you're not allowed to know anything about them!
Yes. I got a 1TB Seagate Barracuda. It crashed and burned after two days. At first, it suddenly dropped reading spped to 3 MB/s. So, I thought it was time to backup all the important files I had on it. A couple of hours later, it stopped reading some of the files. A soft check destroyed most of what was left and I left it running for a week to try and completely destroy all the data it might have had left, before returning it to the store (for privacy concerns, since I had a lot of important personal documents stored on it). It was an awful experience, but then I had a pleasant surprise: the store replaced it immediately without asking me anything. They just looked in my hand and saw the warranty (didn't even look at what was written on it) and they said they rarely had trouble with those disks,. but Seagate was always happy to replace broken ones that were still in their 5-year warranty without asking any questions.
For now, I'm giving Seagate the benefit of the doubt...
It is possible to have the right people looking for prior art. Ask the individuals/companies that request software patents to pay a hefty research tax. They'll either stop requesting stupid patents and they'll pay only for the real deal. Prior art problem solved. Now we need to solve the problem of the concept of software patents.
This case is not about accidental bugs, but about intentional ones. I would gladly like to be able to sue a company that slipped a trojan in their application without clearly informing me about it; or one that promises to give me something and instead it only gives me a mock-up or even nothing at all; or one that sells me software that was intended to stop working a year after the purchase without clearly informing me about it. What does this have to do with hobbyists, I do not know... RedSky was sued for fraud (false advertisement) and their application was breaking all the time - it wasn't just a few accidental bugs, it was a complete lack of interest in providing the customer with a functional product.
And wrong. I don't know how to use Github and if he won't bother to post an email address, I won't bother to learn about Github just for this. The comparison page is wrong. Take nearlyEqual(0.0000001, 0) for example. As the author said, using Epsilon can be bad if you don't know what you are doing. The correct form of the function is: epsilon = 0.00001; function nearlyEqual(a,b) {
return (Math.abs(b) < epsilon) ? (Math.abs(a) < epsilon) : (Math.abs((a-b)/b) < epsilon); }
Also, parentheses don't hurt you and they help the reader.
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You can just click on "Parent" and you will see the parent. That's also a hint that the comment has a parent, so if the parent is low-scored you don't see it by default, but you can choose to do so if you want.
And then you woke up.
You won't believe how dumb people are on IRC! Their dictionary is rather limited, which made tuning the question generator quite simple.
Why funny? Sounds cool to me. Now it would be a great time to invest in anti-virus software.
I did something similar for a friend, helping him pick up women on IRC. The bot learned his usual questions and if they answered about 10 questions, it meant they were interested in him and the bot would forward the conversation to him and he continued it. Another time, I wrote an IRC bot for myself; it would act as a man-in-the-middle to pick up women by getting female nicknames and then forwarding the messages it got to other female-like nicknames it detected. If the conversation went long enough, it forwarded everything to me and I would pick up the chat from there.
But dedicated though they may be, the Extreme Gamers are just a small minority: a mere 4% of the US's 174-million-strong gaming public.
Only 7 million people on the US afford to spend over $300/month on console games?
I'm sorry the mods missed your comment, because I think it is very interesting. Words like "please" and "thanks" will probably give you links to sites with content generated by polite users.
Google should implement this policy. You should have to add "please" at the end of all your search queries.
Wow... The headline is more informative than the summary. And it's not even misleading (only the actual story is)! *thumbs up @ slashdot*
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Wrong! Ask them what they want to learn to do with the computer. Or ask them what they do most and give them an open-source software solution, where they can easily learn by improving existing code.
This is just the next line of food additives that attempt to make food into something that it's not.
Proof, pls. kthxbai.
Nothing new here really. We've had diet food before, we'll have more of it in the future.
Really? Nothing new?
The taste might actually improve too.
So improvements in taste is nothing new?
Why don't we focus on improving our diets so that they actually include healthy foods? There's a lot of food out there that's healthy for us that doesn't taste like cardboard.
That food is also quite expensive. It either costs a lot of time, a lot of processing or a lot of space. Also, TFA implies that this nanofood-thingy might have the potency to make cheap (crap) food healthier! Why change your diet to a different kind of food when you could have the same kind, but a bit different, so that it doesn't harm you as much? As long as you like the taste, your body gets the right amount of energy and it doesn't harm you... what else could be wrong with what you eat? The fact that it's not natural doesn't make it bad. Shit additives the manufacturers are using these days makes it bad. If we can improve those additives, I don't see what's wrong with eating plastic. Again: So fking what if it's not natural?
Or... or... listen to this... How about this?
Why would someone want mayonnaise for something other than fat? Here's an idea: maybe because you're a selfish ass and people just like the taste of mayo. And talk about messing with logic and blatant lying: who said there wasn't anything healthy in potato chips? What does that have to do with making the product healthier? Healthier === less bad for you. It has absolutely nothing to do with making something that already is healthy into something even more healthy. Go suck a dirty sock.
What would be the point of publishing a 500 MB (@~11 chars/user) text file? And how would they do that? If anyone gives a shit about their account, they'll just change their password as soon as they hear about this.
Also, let's do some statistics, shall we? Let's say there are 20 million WoW accounts (pulled the number out of my ass, Wikipedia said 12 million in 2008). There are also 0.2 million stolen WoW accounts. The chance of your account being compromised is 100:1. Pretty high, if you ask me, so just scan your computer online with an antivirus if you don't have one installed, change your password and stop asking for stupid stuff in the name of the community (what community?!?).
But at least your ISP won't.
And Google has been logging me out lately for absolutely no reason! In the past year, I've been "kicked" out of my session at least once a month, sometimes even two-three times in a single day. I'm already used to being asked to type all my passwords to iGoogle, Google Reader, Gmail, YouTube. I would NEVER think that a tab should have the right to take over another tab. Whatever the excuse is, this is just wrong!
But the build scripts were not written by us. They are general-purpose build scripts, written by a third party for which we paid and we don't have the right to distribute them to anyone. Oh, my! Did I just say general-purpose? I'm sorry, but you can't have them and you're not allowed to know anything about them!
So what did you expect? Everyone likes attractive people and who said justice is 100% objective?
Yes. I got a 1TB Seagate Barracuda. It crashed and burned after two days. At first, it suddenly dropped reading spped to 3 MB/s. So, I thought it was time to backup all the important files I had on it. A couple of hours later, it stopped reading some of the files. A soft check destroyed most of what was left and I left it running for a week to try and completely destroy all the data it might have had left, before returning it to the store (for privacy concerns, since I had a lot of important personal documents stored on it). It was an awful experience, but then I had a pleasant surprise: the store replaced it immediately without asking me anything. They just looked in my hand and saw the warranty (didn't even look at what was written on it) and they said they rarely had trouble with those disks,. but Seagate was always happy to replace broken ones that were still in their 5-year warranty without asking any questions.
For now, I'm giving Seagate the benefit of the doubt...
Office is one of the one things I'll give credit to Microsoft for doing fairly decently.
Yeah! Backwards compatibility is the best features in the Microsoft Office suite and... oh, wait, never mind...
It is possible to have the right people looking for prior art. Ask the individuals/companies that request software patents to pay a hefty research tax. They'll either stop requesting stupid patents and they'll pay only for the real deal. Prior art problem solved. Now we need to solve the problem of the concept of software patents.
I am one.
This case is not about accidental bugs, but about intentional ones. I would gladly like to be able to sue a company that slipped a trojan in their application without clearly informing me about it; or one that promises to give me something and instead it only gives me a mock-up or even nothing at all; or one that sells me software that was intended to stop working a year after the purchase without clearly informing me about it. What does this have to do with hobbyists, I do not know... RedSky was sued for fraud (false advertisement) and their application was breaking all the time - it wasn't just a few accidental bugs, it was a complete lack of interest in providing the customer with a functional product.
You asshole! People are starving in Africa and you're just letting your karma burn away like that? Where have the days of decency and virtue gone?
Try Privoxy if you're that poor on bandwidth.
And wrong. I don't know how to use Github and if he won't bother to post an email address, I won't bother to learn about Github just for this.
The comparison page is wrong. Take nearlyEqual(0.0000001, 0) for example. As the author said, using Epsilon can be bad if you don't know what you are doing. The correct form of the function is:
epsilon = 0.00001;
function nearlyEqual(a,b)
{
return (Math.abs(b) < epsilon) ? (Math.abs(a) < epsilon) : (Math.abs((a-b)/b) < epsilon);
}
Also, parentheses don't hurt you and they help the reader.