I bank with Citibank and I have a OTP dongle I use for all online transactions.
The problem isn't Citibank, the problem is the country you live in. I bank with Citibank, Singapore, not Citibank USA (I'm assuming Citibank USA... forgive me if I'm wrong).
I've lived and worked in several countries around the world and Canada and the USA are pretty much the worst when it comes to customer service in the retail banking sector.
Ah, the Real Canadian Superstore. First job for me when I was 15 back in Saskatchewan. I'm 35 now and living in New Zealand. I sometimes still have nightmares I'm working there.
The number one complaint about Python is the forced use of whitespace instead of block begin and end delimters.
When some zealot starts pushing Python that's the first thing that they'll also defend. Much like when some zealot starts pushing Macs and the one button mouse is the first thing they'll defend.
It doesn't matter if it's "right" or "wrong". Some people just don't like it. There are no absolute truths when it comes to people's preferences.
It reminds me of a joke I once heard regaing a guy who, after getting hard contact lenses fitted said, "It feels like a toenail is stuck in my eye", to which the optometrist responds, "Don't worry, you'll get used to it." He replied, "If I've got a toenail stuck in my eye I want it out, I don't want to get used to it."
All I can say is there already are a lot of block delimters already in use in Python, e.g.:
foo = {
'a' : [ 1, 2, 3 ],
'b' : [ 4, 5, 6 ] }
That defines an associate array with a regular array as the value and a string as the key. Python's statement's like if still require weird syntaxtic sugar (presumably for parsing):
if foo == bar:
print foobar else:
print barfoo
What's with the colons?
Instead of alienating people by spouting dogma and telling them their opinion is invalid and incorrect when critiquing Python's choice of how to handle statement block delcarations perhaps just once reflect on why so many people feel this way and just maybe ponder the possibility and wonder to yourself "Why can't there be block delimters or the use of whitespace? Wouldn't that make everyone happy and the world a better place to live?"
At least in Apple's favour, it may have taken them 20+ years to come around but at least they finally did. Perhaps there's some hope for Python too but maybe we'll have to wait until 2010.
Say you print some literature that the government doesn't like. There's all sorts of things the government doesn't like. It doesn't (at least the current republican government) like abortion, marajuana legalization, protests against the war in iraq. You print these up and post them around, pass them out. Laws don't change themselves, it takes action. Disagreeing with a current law is perfectly legal but in the current climate in America might be considered subversive. So if you print them on these printers the FBI can track you down, build a file on you, and perhaps bring Joseph McCarthy back from the dead you commie, tree hugging, pot smoking hippe. That's just an example. Of course you could print money and then the secret service would track you down.
Be mindful when reading press releases like these. Especially old press releases that refer to events that have already happened as future events. To see why, check out these press releases:
I suppose the intro to this only mentioned that he was "London Based" but I just thought I'd point out that Gwynne Dyer is Canadian. He's created many informative documentaries on war and politics via the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada. He's a very intelligent and well spoken man. Here is his biography.
Yup. it's the 'extended' 101 key layout, none of that crappy 84 key stuff with the crazy function keys down the left.
I've had it since around 88 I think. My dad bought a business and it came with a genuine IBM XT and this was the keyboard on it. I thought XT's only came with the 84 key layout but I never asked the original owner where he got the keyboard but he didn't seem like one to scrounge a system together himself so I think it was all part of a package (had the ugly green monochrome IBM monitor too). The no keyboard light thing was freaky too. I could replace the whole top plastic piece from a newer one (it's got the circuitry inside) but I'd lose the metal IBM logo and I've never missed the lights.
It showed some forethought to have a modular plug on the keyboard. Sure there's PS/2 to USB adapters for the days when PS/2 ports disappear but it's be nice to have a "real" cable for it.
Don't have any old mice. I've gotten real used to the optical ones now so I'm not completely old fashioned.
Mine came from an IBM-XT! Metal IBM logo in the top right, no keyboard lights (but there is an internal header for them). I've used it on every machine I've upgraded to. Will never get rid of it. Hate the windows keys. I even found a set of APL keycaps for it at one point.
I snarfed a cable from a PS/2 at one point and it plugged right in, so I don't need an adapter.
Date: 18FEB 1986 PT NO 1390120 ID NO C4360 EC NO 528148 PLT NO FL2 MODEL M
But the copyright is IBM 1984 so there are older ones than that out there.
I used to own a giant Sony monitor, a GDM-1936. Heavy-as! 32kg according to the manual. Anyway, as it was the only monitor I owned at the time and I wanted to go to a LAN party I was carrying it down two flights of stairs. I got down the first flight ok and the second flight was just 3 little concrete stairs. I lost my balance, droppd the monitor and fell into it with my face. Cut up my mouth really bad, blood everywhere. I still wanted to go to the LAN though, so I got up, kicked the monitor, got in my car (the rest of my gear was already loaded), drove to the closest computer store, tried to explain what I was looking for but the blood was making it difficult to talk, so I pointed to some el-cheapo flat 17" thing (Velta was the brand name, no finer make than Velta!), bought it and carried on to the LAN. Still use that monitor and that was 4 years ago. Research, smeasearch. It turned out to be a pretty good monitor.
Long time between posts didn't know anyone replied.
I am in New Zealand, but the phone is not SIM locked and works on GSM networks. I use Vodafone in New Zealand but any GSM provider who uses SIMs should work. I just took my SIM out of my old phone, popped it in this one and was working straight away.
I have a P800 but to obtain the phone easy, I bought the development kit. I did so, partially because it's fun to have the development kit and partially because it was a way I could get the phone without having to wait:
They used to ship pre-release phones but you'll note on that site, that in the last week they have changed to shipping commerical phones, which makes me think that the consumer release of the phones will happen very soon.
It's a very nice phone. I really like it a lot and don't regret the purchase at all.
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I bank with Citibank and I have a OTP dongle I use for all online transactions.
The problem isn't Citibank, the problem is the country you live in. I bank with Citibank, Singapore, not Citibank USA (I'm assuming Citibank USA... forgive me if I'm wrong).
I've lived and worked in several countries around the world and Canada and the USA are pretty much the worst when it comes to customer service in the retail banking sector.
Left4dead is a game being developed by Turtle Rock which is pretty much exactly the game you are describing.
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Here's an article:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/left4dead/news.
Here's the teaser trailer:
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game
It'll be available soon.
It's a bit of that but it's also a bit of the old, "Locks only keep honest people honest".
As the lock itself becomes more and more annoying, even previously honest people can be driven to bypass the lock.
Superstore, Saskatchewan or New Zealand?
I came here to work on Lord of the Rings in 1999 and didn't leave. Working on King Kong now.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1339044/
Superstore sucks ass but even when I was 15 and working there I had a dental plan! I like Saskatchewan and New Zealand's pretty nice.
Ah, the Real Canadian Superstore. First job for me when I was 15 back in Saskatchewan. I'm 35 now and living in New Zealand. I sometimes still have nightmares I'm working there.
When some zealot starts pushing Python that's the first thing that they'll also defend. Much like when some zealot starts pushing Macs and the one button mouse is the first thing they'll defend.
It doesn't matter if it's "right" or "wrong". Some people just don't like it. There are no absolute truths when it comes to people's preferences.
It reminds me of a joke I once heard regaing a guy who, after getting hard contact lenses fitted said, "It feels like a toenail is stuck in my eye", to which the optometrist responds, "Don't worry, you'll get used to it." He replied, "If I've got a toenail stuck in my eye I want it out, I don't want to get used to it."
All I can say is there already are a lot of block delimters already in use in Python, e.g.:That defines an associate array with a regular array as the value and a string as the key.
Python's statement's like if still require weird syntaxtic sugar (presumably for parsing):What's with the colons?
Instead of alienating people by spouting dogma and telling them their opinion is invalid and incorrect when critiquing Python's choice of how to handle statement block delcarations perhaps just once reflect on why so many people feel this way and just maybe ponder the possibility and wonder to yourself "Why can't there be block delimters or the use of whitespace? Wouldn't that make everyone happy and the world a better place to live?"
At least in Apple's favour, it may have taken them 20+ years to come around but at least they finally did. Perhaps there's some hope for Python too but maybe we'll have to wait until 2010.
"we'll you'd hope" is the key.
Say you print some literature that the government doesn't like. There's all sorts of things the government doesn't like. It doesn't (at least the current republican government) like abortion, marajuana legalization, protests against the war in iraq. You print these up and post them around, pass them out. Laws don't change themselves, it takes action. Disagreeing with a current law is perfectly legal but in the current climate in America might be considered subversive. So if you print them on these printers the FBI can track you down, build a file on you, and perhaps bring Joseph McCarthy back from the dead you commie, tree hugging, pot smoking hippe. That's just an example. Of course you could print money and then the secret service would track you down.
I suppose the intro to this only mentioned that he was "London Based" but I just thought I'd point out that Gwynne Dyer is Canadian. He's created many informative documentaries on war and politics via the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada. He's a very intelligent and well spoken man. Here is his biography.
Yup. it's the 'extended' 101 key layout, none of that crappy 84 key stuff with the crazy function keys down the left.
I've had it since around 88 I think. My dad bought a business and it came with a genuine IBM XT and this was the keyboard on it. I thought XT's only came with the 84 key layout but I never asked the original owner where he got the keyboard but he didn't seem like one to scrounge a system together himself so I think it was all part of a package (had the ugly green monochrome IBM monitor too). The no keyboard light thing was freaky too. I could replace the whole top plastic piece from a newer one (it's got the circuitry inside) but I'd lose the metal IBM logo and I've never missed the lights.
It showed some forethought to have a modular plug on the keyboard. Sure there's PS/2 to USB adapters for the days when PS/2 ports disappear but it's be nice to have a "real" cable for it.
Don't have any old mice. I've gotten real used to the optical ones now so I'm not completely old fashioned.
Done!
Mine came from an IBM-XT! Metal IBM logo in the top right, no keyboard lights (but there is an internal header for them). I've used it on every machine I've upgraded to. Will never get rid of it. Hate the windows keys. I even found a set of APL keycaps for it at one point.
I snarfed a cable from a PS/2 at one point and it plugged right in, so I don't need an adapter.
Date: 18FEB 1986
PT NO 1390120
ID NO C4360
EC NO 528148
PLT NO FL2 MODEL M
But the copyright is IBM 1984 so there are older ones than that out there.
I used to own a giant Sony monitor, a GDM-1936. Heavy-as! 32kg according to the manual. Anyway, as it was the only monitor I owned at the time and I wanted to go to a LAN party I was carrying it down two flights of stairs. I got down the first flight ok and the second flight was just 3 little concrete stairs. I lost my balance, droppd the monitor and fell into it with my face. Cut up my mouth really bad, blood everywhere. I still wanted to go to the LAN though, so I got up, kicked the monitor, got in my car (the rest of my gear was already loaded), drove to the closest computer store, tried to explain what I was looking for but the blood was making it difficult to talk, so I pointed to some el-cheapo flat 17" thing (Velta was the brand name, no finer make than Velta!), bought it and carried on to the LAN. Still use that monitor and that was 4 years ago. Research, smeasearch. It turned out to be a pretty good monitor.
Long time between posts didn't know anyone replied.
I am in New Zealand, but the phone is not SIM locked and works on GSM networks. I use Vodafone in New Zealand but any GSM provider who uses SIMs should work. I just took my SIM out of my old phone, popped it in this one and was working straight away.
Two hours of "Making of Lord of the Rings"... Damn. here I am 4 years and counting making Lord of the Rings.
I have a P800 but to obtain the phone easy, I bought the development kit. I did so, partially because it's fun to have the development kit and partially because it was a way I could get the phone without having to wait:
P800 Developer's Bundle
They used to ship pre-release phones but you'll note on that site, that in the last week they have changed to shipping commerical phones, which makes me think that the consumer release of the phones will happen very soon.
It's a very nice phone. I really like it a lot and don't regret the purchase at all.