Advanced books are important, but not as important as some of the earlier stuff. Speaking from experience, its very frustrating at that age just before you can afford to buy what you want, when looking for a reference. You should at least have something for html, javascript, vb, everything that the relatively young might start with on account of them being somewhat accessable (*especially* javascript and html, since it doesn't require any expensive compilers or other setup).
Anything college-level or above (advanced data structures, networking, yada yada) can *almost* be ignored... they cater for the most part to a group of people that are already well off enough that they aren't likely to choose the public library as their source of reference. My list:
The O'Reilly HTML book (Atlantic Book Warehouse in Salisbury, MD still has a whole sale table full of lots of these).
Javascript for the World Wide Web.
* for dummies, where * is a programming language.
A few random linux books with cd's (random helps keep us from homogenizing, of course), so long as people don't steal the cd's... sigh.
Yeah. If I was going to choose an actor(or actress) from a spinoff of a Raimi/Tapert involved show, it wouldn't have been the poorly acted, aging pseudo-lesbian..
If they are talking about it this seriously, it probably means we already have it (or at least that they are sure they can crank them out in only as much time as it takes to retool a factory or twelve.) Public knowledge is always at least two steps behind state-of-the-art.
It sounds to me like they are worried that they wouldn't be able to plausably deny what they *do* have since the other project tanked, and therefore need to create a way to go from here to there without their budget/motives/balls out in the open for the public to see.
When I was younger, the star-trek propoganda in me had me convinced that someday we would have a quote "world government" unquote. Nowadays, I'm beginning to realize how undesirable that really is...
Hemos! Never *ever* use the term 'A modest proposal' when talking about something you think is a good thing. Much too well associated with a certain infamous article espousing the cultivating of the irish people for meat. (And implies sarcasm against whatever one is talking about just by the very title)
I cannot remember the author offhand, though, can anyone help me out with that? Or a link? I'd like to read it again..
Is it just me, or is my impression of the term 'bioagents' forever tainted by 'Osmosis Jones'? Next time there is a threat of viral warfare, I'll be too distracted by Bill Murray to care...
This might be trivial, but isn't 'proving water' a bit of a scientific non-issue? I would have assumed that most scientists consider molecular chemistry pretty... universal (ignore the pun). Now if this was *liquid* water, or an actual ocean...
Actually, it *was* mentioned in the show. I think it was in the motion picture, the scene where they showed the lounge... "All these ships were called Enterprise..."
Its the thin edge of the wedge. First, its subscribe-to-remove ads... later, when they have enough of a base to pay from within those ranks, the corporate bozo's will slowly kludge the business model over toward relying on the subscribers... and the rest of the site will be phazed out ever-so-slowly. Anyone want to take the other side of a long term bet?
Best thing I've ever seen shot out of a water gun was unset jello (which sets rather nicely in the cool spring air). If you want to be a cruel bastard, I've seen bleech done too.
And yes, gasoline melts the plastic. This fact alone is probably all that has kept dumb hicks from making these flamethrowers for all this time.
No you aren't. I'm not especially interested in the intellegence of my opponents. (The singleplayer bot mode of Q3 is one of the single most worthless piles of hookah I've ever played in recent years)
Some of the best elements of the fps, for me, were always the exploration and puzzle solving. People can, and have, gotten away with poor ai when they coupled it with genius level design.
Quake III style games are, almost by definition, more of the same, more of the same, constantly.
Sigh, its a matter of personal preference really, but it stinks of laziness on the developer's side (Quake II, Halflife, for example, were brilliantly done.) But if they release a doom title without a storyline... (Many fighters come together for great justice! isn't a storyline)...they have commited sacriledge.:)
Someday, Quake will live in infamy as the game that clued in the software manufacturers that they could make multiplayer-ONLY trash like Quake III and still have it sell out. Multiplayer is nice and all, but I'd still like to be able to play an interesting game without a net connection... or in 10 years or so, when no-one else is playing.
Not intended as a flame to Quake fans, but they've knocked out some of the elements that made the genre initially great.
Its probably more of a 'lets pass this, and then follow the laws that are convenient to us' type deal. I'm sure the Moroccan enforcement arm has quite a long reach...
Its more likely we'll see non-us websites brought down for violating corporate law than anything else...
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Advanced books are important, but not as important as some of the earlier stuff. Speaking from experience, its very frustrating at that age just before you can afford to buy what you want, when looking for a reference. You should at least have something for html, javascript, vb, everything that the relatively young might start with on account of them being somewhat accessable (*especially* javascript and html, since it doesn't require any expensive compilers or other setup).
Anything college-level or above (advanced data structures, networking, yada yada) can *almost* be ignored... they cater for the most part to a group of people that are already well off enough that they aren't likely to choose the public library as their source of reference. My list:
The O'Reilly HTML book (Atlantic Book Warehouse in Salisbury, MD still has a whole sale table full of lots of these).
Javascript for the World Wide Web.
* for dummies, where * is a programming language.
A few random linux books with cd's (random helps keep us from homogenizing, of course), so long as people don't steal the cd's... sigh.
Yeah. If I was going to choose an actor(or actress) from a spinoff of a Raimi/Tapert involved show, it wouldn't have been the poorly acted, aging pseudo-lesbian..
Don't forget: All the output 'fortune' ever gives is John 3:16.
It isn't *all* sheep farms. Some of NZ is indoors.
See if they get laid first... if they breed before they explode it really isn't Darwin fodder.
If they are talking about it this seriously, it probably means we already have it (or at least that they are sure they can crank them out in only as much time as it takes to retool a factory or twelve.) Public knowledge is always at least two steps behind state-of-the-art.
It sounds to me like they are worried that they wouldn't be able to plausably deny what they *do* have since the other project tanked, and therefore need to create a way to go from here to there without their budget/motives/balls out in the open for the public to see.
When I was younger, the star-trek propoganda in me had me convinced that someday we would have a quote "world government" unquote. Nowadays, I'm beginning to realize how undesirable that really is...
Heh, I was having a bad day until I read this. Thank you for your support.
I didn't realize that Agent Herrmann's password was public knowledge. This is rather depressing news for myself and the rest of the agency.
Well, gee, I wonder why so many searches on Google return slashdot discussions...
http://www.slashdot.org/robots.txt
Heh. Return your opened copy for an unopened copy of the same title. Wait a day. Return the unopened copy for cash back. :)
Hemos! Never *ever* use the term 'A modest proposal' when talking about something you think is a good thing. Much too well associated with a certain infamous article espousing the cultivating of the irish people for meat. (And implies sarcasm against whatever one is talking about just by the very title)
I cannot remember the author offhand, though, can anyone help me out with that? Or a link? I'd like to read it again..
Is it just me, or is my impression of the term 'bioagents' forever tainted by 'Osmosis Jones'? Next time there is a threat of viral warfare, I'll be too distracted by Bill Murray to care...
This might be trivial, but isn't 'proving water' a bit of a scientific non-issue? I would have assumed that most scientists consider molecular chemistry pretty... universal (ignore the pun). Now if this was *liquid* water, or an actual ocean...
Ignoring the aircraft carrier scene in the horrible fourth film. That was more a plot device than evidence of history, anyway.
Actually, it *was* mentioned in the show. I think it was in the motion picture, the scene where they showed the lounge... "All these ships were called Enterprise..."
What is the phone number? If all they want is someone to read off 32 digits to them, I'm more than happy to play from time to time.
Its the thin edge of the wedge. First, its subscribe-to-remove ads... later, when they have enough of a base to pay from within those ranks, the corporate bozo's will slowly kludge the business model over toward relying on the subscribers... and the rest of the site will be phazed out ever-so-slowly. Anyone want to take the other side of a long term bet?
Best thing I've ever seen shot out of a water gun was unset jello (which sets rather nicely in the cool spring air). If you want to be a cruel bastard, I've seen bleech done too.
And yes, gasoline melts the plastic. This fact alone is probably all that has kept dumb hicks from making these flamethrowers for all this time.
Geeze, man, thats like suggesting that some people still believe in God!! What makes believing in ghosts or demons any sillier than that?
No, no... it should be FUCKing Is Not Gaim!
No you aren't. I'm not especially interested in the intellegence of my opponents. (The singleplayer bot mode of Q3 is one of the single most worthless piles of hookah I've ever played in recent years)
...they have commited sacriledge. :)
Some of the best elements of the fps, for me, were always the exploration and puzzle solving. People can, and have, gotten away with poor ai when they coupled it with genius level design.
Quake III style games are, almost by definition, more of the same, more of the same, constantly.
Sigh, its a matter of personal preference really, but it stinks of laziness on the developer's side (Quake II, Halflife, for example, were brilliantly done.) But if they release a doom title without a storyline... (Many fighters come together for great justice! isn't a storyline)
Someday, Quake will live in infamy as the game that clued in the software manufacturers that they could make multiplayer-ONLY trash like Quake III and still have it sell out. Multiplayer is nice and all, but I'd still like to be able to play an interesting game without a net connection... or in 10 years or so, when no-one else is playing.
Not intended as a flame to Quake fans, but they've knocked out some of the elements that made the genre initially great.
Its probably more of a 'lets pass this, and then follow the laws that are convenient to us' type deal. I'm sure the Moroccan enforcement arm has quite a long reach...
Its more likely we'll see non-us websites brought down for violating corporate law than anything else...
Heh. What you say? You mean spammers don't honor the holy http://slashdot.org/robots.txt?