I do believe this is the first Mono application which is not.NET related by nature to have its own/. article.
Congratulations! In recognition of this feat, I hereby present you with this valuable mock-pewter model of an assembly! If you open the little door and look inside, you can see how type information and other metadata is held in a neat, extensible mini-rdb inside!
And whereas Muslim terrorists hope to spread their ideology by indiscriminantly torturing and killing white people, neocons hope to spread their ideology by indiscriminantly torturing and killing Muslims.
Wow, bad time to be a white muslim -- which is a rapidly growing group here in the UK due to people converting when they marry.
Actually, it's more amazing that the writer of the article can believe stereotypes like 'Japan is a country with few foreigners' even while working there! The Japanese belief that black guys have big dicks is just plain correct, but this whole 'woo, Japan, isolated empire where ancient tradition coexists with giant robots' thing is totally incomprehensible to me.
As to why his students feel the need to mention it to him all the time, well, I think he might want to consider that it's not that they're fascinated by his penis; it's more that they're just teenagers taking the piss out of their teacher. It does happen, you know:)
Actually, this reminds me of one time when I was talking to some young female shop assistants in Tokyo and had the following conversation:
Giggling assistants: What are you doing this weekend?
Me: Nothing much. You?
GA: We're going to Mitaka!
Me: Why Mitaka? It's a dump.
GA: But there is an american army base near there ! We want to try and fuck some black guys on Saturday. They have the biggest dicks!
Me: Right... er... see you on Monday, then.
Not a stereotype, though, just a fact about relative penis size and a tribute to the uninhibited, jaded nymphomania which seems to mark a large chunk of the Japanese population.
On top of the problems mentioned above, Britain continues to be plagued by leftist panic-mongers who dump truckloads of artificial fear and guilt on anyone or anything that looks too much like it might result in some progress!
This is normal culling behaviour in a lot of species -- if an individual shows weakness by going down during a minor spat, the whole flock or pack will gang up on it and kill it. (Dogs do the exact same thing, and even normally non-aggressive dogs will join in.)
Heh, looks like black forced white to use a move up killing those dead stones -- now black has sente for the all-important endgame AND white has lost his best ko threat. I think that move decided the game for black.
Remember, folks, kibbitzing is the most important part of go!
In other news, this story is just 'China kicks US ass', and that's a truism in go as well as industry.
There ARE no peruvian moose hunters now. The regenerating meece were too hard to kill, and the hunters have become the hunted. Thanks a lot, Australiams.
This assumption is questionable, given that one is a whirling ball of chemicals suspended in space and the other is a country with tulips. Sure, there may be superficial similarites, but assuming they share important physical properties may be unwarranted at this stage.
The point here is that there is only a license for 1 person to read it at once -- and it is the library's responsibility to enforce that, otherwise they would be unlawfully distributing the work.
Okay, guys, it's time to test our company's newest product.. Let's turn the Simplificator to level 1!
Everyone knows that when a new area of business opens up, lots of exaggerated claims are made -- and then later it's easy to see that those claims were just propaganda and have nothing to do with what actually happened.
Hmm, good -- but not simple enough! Let's crank up the power a bit and turn to level TEN!
Whenever a new world opens up, some pompous twits will sound off about it, but the clamor dies down and is forgotten in time.
Short and to the point! Now, let's put on our goggles and lead coats, and turn it UP TO ELEVEN!
Scott McCloud is a pretentious idiot, but the comics business will carry on regardless. Duh.
Hooray for the Simplificator! It cut to the very heart of the discourse -- and the only damage was some trivial radiation leaking!
So these people who were CADETS followed phishing instructions that came to them STRAIGHT FROM THEIR OWN COLONEL. I hardly think that's a reasonable test!
Now, if they'd all mindlessly obeyed an email from ebay or paypal or their bank or something, then yes, they would have been ownz0red. But following an instruction from a superior officer is something we do try to encourage in the Forces these days.
...there were some exceptions to the above rule: all monsters armed with guns could hurt anything, including each other. Thus sergeants, soldiers, chain gunners and spider demons could all fight their own kind, although because bullets travelled infinitely fast it was difficult to induce them to hit each other in the first place.
Moving the goal posts, eh? I was talking about immigration, not citizenship -- although Japanese citizenship is certainly easier to get than Korean or Chinese, and probably easier to handle than the blank wall of hostility that is the 'policy' of the UK.
I would hardly call your example an 'abuse of policy'. She isn't a citizen. Bummer. At least she's allowed to stay. Try China.
But I swear something like 10% of Japanese marry non-Japanese; it's got to be the highest ratio ever. And the success of books like 'Darling wa gaikokujin' underlines the point yet further; Japanese LOVE the idea of mixing with foreigners to the point that a very high proportion of them are willing to _marry_ pretty much just on that basis alone. This makes Japan a good place for lonely people to visit.
Crazy? Undoubtedly. Stupid? Hrm. Isolationist? In slashdot, maybe, but not in real life.
Wouldn't you say that the large amount of immigration into Japan for the purpose of making up the labor shortage tends to undermine that view?
In other news, not all slanty-eyed people are from the same place. Tokyo may look 'ethnically isolationist' to you, (assuming you ignore the Brazilian areas and so on), but that's a fact about you, not a fact about Tokyo.
We don't have a panning tool because we have lots of other ways to scroll. The best of them are middle-drag and ctrl+arrows. Try them, you may like them better when you get used to them.
That's a major problem.
Middle-drag and ctrl+arrows may suit _you_, but try them while using a tablet. Using space to pan (real space bar, or map space to some of the buttons on your tablet/drawing tool) does not involve putting down your pen, using the mouse or cursor keys, and then picking the pen up again. I understand that it would be technically possible to operate the mouse with my foot or cover ctrl and the cursor keys all with my non-pen hand, but...
I realize that if you don't use tablets and zoom a lot there's no reason you would have thought of this. It's all a matter of individual working style. What you should have done is reflect on why other applications have panning tools and what use people might have for them. What you did do was announce that you have plenty of ways to pan that suit you personally just fine, and advise the user to get used to them.
The problem here is _not_ your lack of a panning tool; that's just a little problem that should be trivial to fix.
I love SVG but I think I have to mark my expectations for Inkscape down a notch if this is typical of the project philosophy.
Yes, I have a genuinely non-lethal weapon. I call it 'candy floss'.
The trick is to make a non-lethal weapon that nevertheless disrupts the target enough to make them stop what they're doing. That's probably impossible.
Hmm... even my 'candy floss' weapon is lethal in the rare case that the stick goes in someone's eye.
Non-lethality is something that nature just seems to frown on.
Very good with all things video Fast, especially at GUI tasks Very good filesystem, such that you can define a folder as 'everything in/etc that is less than 5 days old and is a sound file' Easy to write for SVG graphics! Okay, not really a solid benefit but a cool technology; graphics are vectors and therefore zoom and scale as you would expect.
It was designed to be an efficient single-user graphical OS, specially for use in multimedia (ie they couldn't think of any other niche for it). As a result it's much faster than Unix/Linux and much cleaner and freindlier than Windows for doing GUI tasks and as a platform for video codecs.
In terms of apps, the big open source projects (firefox, vim etc) are all there, but there's precious little else.
The main DISadvantage is that nobody uses it and there's not the slightest chance that anybody ever will:) However, it is more comfortable and responsive to use than any other OS I can think of -- a bit like using NeXT, in fact, if anyone remembers those.
Look, a faint dim spark that still lights the way toward the wondrous land of OSes that are not encumbered with the baggage of Unix and Windows.
The forward thinking population of/. will now mock it because:
* It's old. * It's not Linux or OSX. * It's not free.
They will ignore the fact that:
* Much of what OSX has just started to do, in terms of usability, BeOS explored all the way back then. * It's really easy to develop fast GUI apps for. * And to develop for in general. * Diversity is good, and a billion people writing GNU-style apps for Linux is not diversity.
In summary, I -- hey! Get out of my yard! Damn kids these days.
Slashdot Mirror
ReplayTV sued to the waterline after recieving publicity on Slashdot.
This is exactly what happened with WinMX -- somebody told the world about it and it stopped working.
I do believe this is the first Mono application which is not
Congratulations! In recognition of this feat, I hereby present you with this valuable mock-pewter model of an assembly! If you open the little door and look inside, you can see how type information and other metadata is held in a neat, extensible mini-rdb inside!
And whereas Muslim terrorists hope to spread their ideology by indiscriminantly torturing and killing white people, neocons hope to spread their ideology by indiscriminantly torturing and killing Muslims.
Wow, bad time to be a white muslim -- which is a rapidly growing group here in the UK due to people converting when they marry.
Actually, it's more amazing that the writer of the article can believe stereotypes like 'Japan is a country with few foreigners' even while working there! The Japanese belief that black guys have big dicks is just plain correct, but this whole 'woo, Japan, isolated empire where ancient tradition coexists with giant robots' thing is totally incomprehensible to me.
As to why his students feel the need to mention it to him all the time, well, I think he might want to consider that it's not that they're fascinated by his penis; it's more that they're just teenagers taking the piss out of their teacher. It does happen, you know
Actually, this reminds me of one time when I was talking to some young female shop assistants in Tokyo and had the following conversation:
Giggling assistants: What are you doing this weekend?
Me: Nothing much. You?
GA: We're going to Mitaka!
Me: Why Mitaka? It's a dump.
GA: But there is an american army base near there ! We want to try and fuck some black guys on Saturday. They have the biggest dicks!
Me: Right... er... see you on Monday, then.
Not a stereotype, though, just a fact about relative penis size and a tribute to the uninhibited, jaded nymphomania which seems to mark a large chunk of the Japanese population.
On top of the problems mentioned above, Britain continues to be plagued by leftist panic-mongers who dump truckloads of artificial fear and guilt on anyone or anything that looks too much like it might result in some progress!
But I guess you knew that.
This is normal culling behaviour in a lot of species -- if an individual shows weakness by going down during a minor spat, the whole flock or pack will gang up on it and kill it. (Dogs do the exact same thing, and even normally non-aggressive dogs will join in.)
Humans too.
Heh, looks like black forced white to use a move up killing those dead stones -- now black has sente for the all-important endgame AND white has lost his best ko threat. I think that move decided the game for black.
Remember, folks, kibbitzing is the most important part of go!
In other news, this story is just 'China kicks US ass', and that's a truism in go as well as industry.
There ARE no peruvian moose hunters now. The regenerating meece were too hard to kill, and the hunters have become the hunted. Thanks a lot, Australiams.
I reckon the Slashdot will still be having "X Suxx0rs!!!" flamewars in 10 years.
It's not a flamewar if everyone agrees
assuming Enceladus is like Holland,
This assumption is questionable, given that one is a whirling ball of chemicals suspended in space and the other is a country with tulips. Sure, there may be superficial similarites, but assuming they share important physical properties may be unwarranted at this stage.
The point here is that there is only a license for 1 person to read it at once -- and it is the library's responsibility to enforce that, otherwise they would be unlawfully distributing the work.
This has been a public service announcement.
The best and the brightest are no longer culled from America only
Er...
Okay, guys, it's time to test our company's newest product..
Let's turn the Simplificator to level 1!
Everyone knows that when a new area of business opens up, lots of exaggerated claims are made -- and then later it's easy to see that those claims were just propaganda and have nothing to do with what actually happened.
Hmm, good -- but not simple enough! Let's crank up the power a bit and turn to level TEN!
Whenever a new world opens up, some pompous twits will sound off about it, but the clamor dies down and is forgotten in time.
Short and to the point! Now, let's put on our goggles and lead coats, and turn it UP TO ELEVEN!
Scott McCloud is a pretentious idiot, but the comics business will carry on regardless. Duh.
Hooray for the Simplificator! It cut to the very heart of the discourse -- and the only damage was some trivial radiation leaking!
Oh, yay, Perl6 without Unicode, threads, up-to-date documentation, or an intelligible release schedule.
Compared to which, the lack of CPAN etc is trivial.
I love ruby but I don't think it's going to be a perl replacement until the project is scoped and run less like a hobby.
You think the USA makes stuff! That's adorable! Hold that pose while I fetch my digital camera! Oh, wait, there's one in my mobile
So these people who were CADETS followed phishing instructions that came to them STRAIGHT FROM THEIR OWN COLONEL. I hardly think that's a reasonable test!
Now, if they'd all mindlessly obeyed an email from ebay or paypal or their bank or something, then yes, they would have been ownz0red. But following an instruction from a superior officer is something we do try to encourage in the Forces these days.
...there were some exceptions to the above rule: all monsters armed with guns could hurt anything, including each other. Thus sergeants, soldiers, chain gunners and spider demons could all fight their own kind, although because bullets travelled infinitely fast it was difficult to induce them to hit each other in the first place.
Tron and Dungeons and Dragons with their blocky and obviously computer-rendered scenes
Tron was SET INSIDE A COMPUTER! You've got to expect a teensy bit of computeryness in the scenery!
What was more surprising was that 90% of it was carefully drawn by human animators to get that 'computer rendered' look just right...
D&D didn't have blocky graphics -- those were real people, just acting _REALLY WOODENLY_!
surge of patent applications, especially in the software and internet business method arena
It's almost like the solution suggests itself...
Moving the goal posts, eh? I was talking about immigration, not citizenship -- although Japanese citizenship is certainly easier to get than Korean or Chinese, and probably easier to handle than the blank wall of hostility that is the 'policy' of the UK.
I would hardly call your example an 'abuse of policy'. She isn't a citizen. Bummer. At least she's allowed to stay. Try China.
But I swear something like 10% of Japanese marry non-Japanese; it's got to be the highest ratio ever. And the success of books like 'Darling wa gaikokujin' underlines the point yet further; Japanese LOVE the idea of mixing with foreigners to the point that a very high proportion of them are willing to _marry_ pretty much just on that basis alone. This makes Japan a good place for lonely people to visit.
Crazy? Undoubtedly. Stupid? Hrm. Isolationist? In slashdot, maybe, but not in real life.
Wouldn't you say that the large amount of immigration into Japan for the purpose of making up the labor shortage tends to undermine that view?
In other news, not all slanty-eyed people are from the same place. Tokyo may look 'ethnically isolationist' to you, (assuming you ignore the Brazilian areas and so on), but that's a fact about you, not a fact about Tokyo.
We don't have a panning tool
That's a minor problem.
We don't have a panning tool because we have lots of other ways to scroll. The best of them are middle-drag and ctrl+arrows. Try them, you may like them better when you get used to them.
That's a major problem.
Middle-drag and ctrl+arrows may suit _you_, but try them while using a tablet. Using space to pan (real space bar, or map space to some of the buttons on your tablet/drawing tool) does not involve putting down your pen, using the mouse or cursor keys, and then picking the pen up again. I understand that it would be technically possible to operate the mouse with my foot or cover ctrl and the cursor keys all with my non-pen hand, but...
I realize that if you don't use tablets and zoom a lot there's no reason you would have thought of this. It's all a matter of individual working style. What you should have done is reflect on why other applications have panning tools and what use people might have for them. What you did do was announce that you have plenty of ways to pan that suit you personally just fine, and advise the user to get used to them.
The problem here is _not_ your lack of a panning tool; that's just a little problem that should be trivial to fix.
I love SVG but I think I have to mark my expectations for Inkscape down a notch if this is typical of the project philosophy.
Yes, I have a genuinely non-lethal weapon. I call it 'candy floss'.
The trick is to make a non-lethal weapon that nevertheless disrupts the target enough to make them stop what they're doing. That's probably impossible.
Hmm... even my 'candy floss' weapon is lethal in the rare case that the stick goes in someone's eye.
Non-lethality is something that nature just seems to frown on.
It's main benefits are:
Very good with all things video
Fast, especially at GUI tasks
Very good filesystem, such that you can define a folder as 'everything in
Easy to write for
SVG graphics! Okay, not really a solid benefit but a cool technology; graphics are vectors and therefore zoom and scale as you would expect.
It was designed to be an efficient single-user graphical OS, specially for use in multimedia (ie they couldn't think of any other niche for it). As a result it's much faster than Unix/Linux and much cleaner and freindlier than Windows for doing GUI tasks and as a platform for video codecs.
In terms of apps, the big open source projects (firefox, vim etc) are all there, but there's precious little else.
The main DISadvantage is that nobody uses it and there's not the slightest chance that anybody ever will
Look, a faint dim spark that still lights the way toward the wondrous land of OSes that are not encumbered with the baggage of Unix and Windows.
The forward thinking population of
* It's old.
* It's not Linux or OSX.
* It's not free.
They will ignore the fact that:
* Much of what OSX has just started to do, in terms of usability, BeOS explored all the way back then.
* It's really easy to develop fast GUI apps for.
* And to develop for in general.
* Diversity is good, and a billion people writing GNU-style apps for Linux is not diversity.
In summary, I -- hey! Get out of my yard! Damn kids these days.