Rikai is a completely different kind of project that works completely differently, it's server based.
To make a jBrowse-like plugin in perl would surely be very hard... Is there a way to use perl to script firefox? If there were, that might be very useful; I'd have a better chance implementing the logic in perl than in javascript.
I really wish I could switch to Mozilla (ok, Firefox). My co-workers are switching to Firefox. My users are switching to firefox. But I can't, because I have no idea how to implement my pet project as a mozilla-type plugin.
All it has to do is read in a dictionary file, then catch the 'new page loading' event, perform morphological analysis on the page, and edit the page as it loads to include ruby tags and/or something to display definitions in the toolbar. That's it! It's fairly computationally intensive and sometimes the right html to insert at a given point is a bit of a guessing game, but it's not rocket science. But HOW THE FORK DO I DO IT IN MOZILLA??
PS Yes I have rtfm and no I cannot implement the analysis algorithm usefully in javascript and yes I do have to insert ruby tags, as well as regular javascript that talks back to the plugin, into the page on the fly.
Considering the amount of research that seemed necessary to get it working in the minefield of IE, I expected that I would be quite capable of figuring it out in mozilla, but it just seems to be an order of magnitude harder.
I would be grateful for advice (eg a pointer to a similar project). Or failing that, remarks on the lines of 'if u cant use mozilla u r lame u lame wind0z3 lu20r hehe l8trz' would also be fine.
EBCDIC to ASCII was as big a step as ASCII to Unicode.
EBCDIC: Largely arbitrary 7/8-bit set of encoded char sets designed to fit the needs of various specialized groups of people in various (IBM-supported) languages.
ASCII: Largely arbitrary 7-bit encoded character set designed to fit the needs of one specialized group in one (1) language.
UNICODE: Enormous, multiplane encoded character set, with collation tables and combining rules and much other auxiliary information, designed to represent all current commonly-used text and to have lossless 2-way conversion with all current commonly-used character sets.
So when an Al Qaeda "representative" believed to be in Baghdad before the war removes the head of a US citizen and releases the video on the internet in "protest" of the U.S. occupation.... that isn't proof?
Well, it proves that at some point after Saddam was in power, there was at least one Al-Qaeda member in Iraq. You may recall there were also Al-Qaeda members in the US.
Why is Al Qaeda representatives beheading american civilians in Iraq?
Because they hate you for a variety of well-documented reasons.
The fact that this sort of thing still needs pointing out (in the US) does not encourage me to look to the US for a solution to the situation.
I've lived in London for the last 18 years, since being 18 in fact, all over from Finsbury Park to Streatham, From Acton to Walthamstow, and even in South Kensington and Victoria, which covers a large area.
It covers a large area of cozy middle class neighborhoods, yes. I think this, rather than the confidence which I'm sure is conspicuous in your stride, accounts for the lack of hassle.
No, he can't -- you're confusing the English with people who have basic respect for themselves and for the concept of property belonging to a particular person rather than to whoever can grab it.
Yes, it was flamebait, mod me down... yet there is wisdom in my words I tell you...
When you go to uni, you don't pay for a degree. You pay for tuition (and other related services) and the twit recieved these services. There was no contract that said he had to get a degree. The fact that he elected to not bother to do the work that would have led to a degree is his affair -- the contract between him and the uni is intact.
He doesn't have a case, unless there was something really odd in his contract with the uni.
There are a lot of posts here claiming that Americans just won't be able to get the subtle British humor of HHGTTG, and pointing to various great Brit comedies to support this. The thing is, when people talk about 'British comedy', they mean the comedy of one particular period, the golden age of really great British comedy from about 1965 - 1985, when Fawlty, Python, and HHGTGG flourished.
Now, that was indeed a great flowering of the comedian's art, the like of which has not been seen elsewhere. But it's not an eternal immutable aspect of the US & UK population; it's an event that happened to occur in the UK. There's junk UK TV -- in fact, they produce rock bottom TV by the ton -- and there's great US TV.
So please can we discuss this with reference to appropriate cultural phenomena, sure, but not with reference to this imaginary 'irony gene' that only British people have? It's only encouraging that class of annoying English people who go on and on about Americans not understanding irony like it was the only way they could think of to make themselves feel special.
I would read about a major government initiative, say, to control water pollution. Great! Well, nothing would happen and a few months latter, I would read about another water pollution program (for example). This would repeat for other "good things."
So, the lesson is, the Chinese government leadership has very good intentions
Man, if I were a greedy, materialistic, totalitarian regime, I would give my RIGHT ARM for citizens like you!
In the napoleonic era, a typical punishment for highway robbery was death. The punishment for plain old mugging was death. The punishment for burglary was death. The punishment for slipping a few florins from a stranger's pocket into one's own pocket was death. Crimes involving less personal contact were treated a bit more leniently -- the stealer of a sheep in the UK, for instance, could look forward to a mere 8 years or so in an Army penal battalion.
Crime was high, though, much higher than it is now, because of such factors as: the low chance of being caught (no detectives, few police), the large number of desperate people (no welfare), and the social disruption caused by having people EXECUTED THE WHOLE DAMN TIME.
But yeah, make the punishments harsher, it's bound to work.
I learned a lot about European history from that game -- not just facts, but also the understanding that there used to be so much in the eastern half of Europe until the mongols and turks flattened it -- what we tend to think of as Europe now is really just the western 2/5 or so.
Darn those turks, with their fiendishly juicy kebabs!
A corporate employee -- in MARKETING no less -- whose motivations are monetary, not belief-based!! We must stamp this out before it becomes socially acceptable!! Thank goodness there's only one of them. I'm pretty sure every other executive in the world is still going to work each day out of a sense of belief, but if this 'monetary motivation' thing catches on, we could be looking at people going into business to make money, or, worse yet, going to work in order to get a paycheck! *splutter*
Meanwhile, in the real world outside slashdot, patenting everything has been _everyone's_ tactic for at least ten years.
I remember one place I worked, every engineer _had_ to file at least one patent a year, even if all they did was write device drivers... had to do it, though, in case someone else ever sued.
That's nice. See, I was worried that some game that I have fond memories of might be too obscure and too un-film-like to be made into a really pathetically lame movie with a retarded wrestler blundering around in it. But it seems I was worried about nothing -- cause there's _nothing_ they can't stick a wrestler and a few minutes of tragically dull pseudo-Hong Kong brawling onto these days!
In the first interview question, he not only shows a correct grasp of the marketplace (Linux is a technology used by businesses to produce competing products/services, not a competitor in itself) but also brilliantly spins it ("It was thought of as free." -- love it!).
Why the heck is Ballmer still in charge if they have someone who makes sense? Perhaps if this guy had been in charge of promoting.NET they wouldn't have had everyone thinking that.NET was an XML parser for about a freakin' year.
The effect described in the article, while well known, is NOT DIFFRACTION. The 2-slit experiment you did in school is the one that demonstrates diffraction, and it's included in the article just so that you can keep it straight in your head!
PLEASE STOP MAKING POSTS OF THE 'This is just diffraction! I know all about _that_!' VARIETY!
This is an article about how Americans see themselves -- or rather, about how the author would like them to. It does not appear to actually touch on the economic realities (good or bad) of outsourcing.
Yay for fluff.
However, it is quite interesting in the American self-image that it pushes. While Americans are indeed diverse and tolerant, I think the remarks on innovation (which I hear often) could do with a little consideration.
Ffs, man, get a grip -- your planet and your country are full of people of all religions who don't give a damn about creationism. YOU just want to feel persecuted, so you decide you're being persecuted by Christians, because there's a lot of them and they're unlikely to kill you in return. That's fine, it's great that you've found a way to build up your self image. But please don't confuse it with something 'deeply ingrained into our culture' because most of the members of said culture don't give a shit.
Plenty of ambiguity -- good news for lawyers, bad news for business. Presumably they intend to figure out some long and complex definition of 'custom software' at a later date.
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Rikai is a completely different kind of project that works completely differently, it's server based.
To make a jBrowse-like plugin in perl would surely be very hard... Is there a way to use perl to script firefox? If there were, that might be very useful; I'd have a better chance implementing the logic in perl than in javascript.
I really wish I could switch to Mozilla (ok, Firefox). My co-workers are switching to Firefox. My users are switching to firefox. But I can't, because I have no idea how to implement my pet project as a mozilla-type plugin.
All it has to do is read in a dictionary file, then catch the 'new page loading' event, perform morphological analysis on the page, and edit the page as it loads to include ruby tags and/or something to display definitions in the toolbar. That's it! It's fairly computationally intensive and sometimes the right html to insert at a given point is a bit of a guessing game, but it's not rocket science. But HOW THE FORK DO I DO IT IN MOZILLA??
PS Yes I have rtfm and no I cannot implement the analysis algorithm usefully in javascript and yes I do have to insert ruby tags, as well as regular javascript that talks back to the plugin, into the page on the fly.
Considering the amount of research that seemed necessary to get it working in the minefield of IE, I expected that I would be quite capable of figuring it out in mozilla, but it just seems to be an order of magnitude harder.
I would be grateful for advice (eg a pointer to a similar project). Or failing that, remarks on the lines of 'if u cant use mozilla u r lame u lame wind0z3 lu20r hehe l8trz' would also be fine.
EBCDIC to ASCII was as big a step as ASCII to Unicode.
EBCDIC: Largely arbitrary 7/8-bit set of encoded char sets designed to fit the needs of various specialized groups of people in various (IBM-supported) languages.
ASCII: Largely arbitrary 7-bit encoded character set designed to fit the needs of one specialized group in one (1) language.
UNICODE: Enormous, multiplane encoded character set, with collation tables and combining rules and much other auxiliary information, designed to represent all current commonly-used text and to have lossless 2-way conversion with all current commonly-used character sets.
ASCII != step forward
SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composites are very good, but they are like the japanese entering the car market.
You mean, they're producing a better solution for less money on an otherwise level playing field -- and making it look shiny too?
Actually, although I'm not sure you could declare SS1 'better' than the shuttle, it's a pretty interesting analogy, with NASA in the role of Detroit.
No, vim is better!
So when an Al Qaeda "representative" believed to be in Baghdad before the war removes the head of a US citizen and releases the video on the internet in "protest" of the U.S. occupation.... that isn't proof?
Well, it proves that at some point after Saddam was in power, there was at least one Al-Qaeda member in Iraq. You may recall there were also Al-Qaeda members in the US.
Why is Al Qaeda representatives beheading american civilians in Iraq?
Because they hate you for a variety of well-documented reasons.
The fact that this sort of thing still needs pointing out (in the US) does not encourage me to look to the US for a solution to the situation.
I've lived in London for the last 18 years, since being 18 in fact, all over from Finsbury Park to Streatham, From Acton to Walthamstow, and even in South Kensington and Victoria, which covers a large area.
It covers a large area of cozy middle class neighborhoods, yes. I think this, rather than the confidence which I'm sure is conspicuous in your stride, accounts for the lack of hassle.
No, he can't -- you're confusing the English with people who have basic respect for themselves and for the concept of property belonging to a particular person rather than to whoever can grab it.
Yes, it was flamebait, mod me down... yet there is wisdom in my words I tell you...
When you go to uni, you don't pay for a degree. You pay for tuition (and other related services) and the twit recieved these services. There was no contract that said he had to get a degree. The fact that he elected to not bother to do the work that would have led to a degree is his affair -- the contract between him and the uni is intact.
He doesn't have a case, unless there was something really odd in his contract with the uni.
There are a lot of posts here claiming that Americans just won't be able to get the subtle British humor of HHGTTG, and pointing to various great Brit comedies to support this. The thing is, when people talk about 'British comedy', they mean the comedy of one particular period, the golden age of really great British comedy from about 1965 - 1985, when Fawlty, Python, and HHGTGG flourished.
Now, that was indeed a great flowering of the comedian's art, the like of which has not been seen elsewhere. But it's not an eternal immutable aspect of the US & UK population; it's an event that happened to occur in the UK. There's junk UK TV -- in fact, they produce rock bottom TV by the ton -- and there's great US TV.
So please can we discuss this with reference to appropriate cultural phenomena, sure, but not with reference to this imaginary 'irony gene' that only British people have? It's only encouraging that class of annoying English people who go on and on about Americans not understanding irony like it was the only way they could think of to make themselves feel special.
Hrm, well, my rant is over.
I'll get me coat.
this means that if the bodies of the dead were to get up again,
OH NO!!
we could kill them all 12 more times
Phew! Thank goodness we have had the foresight to protect ourselves from the inevitable wave of zombies.
I would read about a major government initiative, say, to control water pollution. Great! Well, nothing would happen and a few months latter, I would read about another water pollution program (for example). This would repeat for other "good things."
So, the lesson is, the Chinese government leadership has very good intentions
Man, if I were a greedy, materialistic, totalitarian regime, I would give my RIGHT ARM for citizens like you!
Sigh.
In the napoleonic era, a typical punishment for highway robbery was death. The punishment for plain old mugging was death. The punishment for burglary was death. The punishment for slipping a few florins from a stranger's pocket into one's own pocket was death. Crimes involving less personal contact were treated a bit more leniently -- the stealer of a sheep in the UK, for instance, could look forward to a mere 8 years or so in an Army penal battalion.
Crime was high, though, much higher than it is now, because of such factors as: the low chance of being caught (no detectives, few police), the large number of desperate people (no welfare), and the social disruption caused by having people EXECUTED THE WHOLE DAMN TIME.
But yeah, make the punishments harsher, it's bound to work.
I learned a lot about European history from that game -- not just facts, but also the understanding that there used to be so much in the eastern half of Europe until the mongols and turks flattened it -- what we tend to think of as Europe now is really just the western 2/5 or so.
Darn those turks, with their fiendishly juicy kebabs!
A corporate employee -- in MARKETING no less -- whose motivations are monetary, not belief-based!! We must stamp this out before it becomes socially acceptable!! Thank goodness there's only one of them. I'm pretty sure every other executive in the world is still going to work each day out of a sense of belief, but if this 'monetary motivation' thing catches on, we could be looking at people going into business to make money, or, worse yet, going to work in order to get a paycheck! *splutter*
Seriously, guys, listen to yourselves.
Meanwhile, in the real world outside slashdot, patenting everything has been _everyone's_ tactic for at least ten years.
I remember one place I worked, every engineer _had_ to file at least one patent a year, even if all they did was write device drivers... had to do it, though, in case someone else ever sued.
Now all they need is funding, a plan, and some sort of stab at a space vehicle.
That's nice. See, I was worried that some game that I have fond memories of might be too obscure and too un-film-like to be made into a really pathetically lame movie with a retarded wrestler blundering around in it. But it seems I was worried about nothing -- cause there's _nothing_ they can't stick a wrestler and a few minutes of tragically dull pseudo-Hong Kong brawling onto these days!
What a relief.
Thanks, Hollywood.
In the first interview question, he not only shows a correct grasp of the marketplace (Linux is a technology used by businesses to produce competing products/services, not a competitor in itself) but also brilliantly spins it ("It was thought of as free." -- love it!).
Why the heck is Ballmer still in charge if they have someone who makes sense? Perhaps if this guy had been in charge of promoting
Subversion is not pudgy! It's just... buxom! And anyway, it's in much better shape than that flabby Aegis thing. So there.
The effect described in the article, while well known, is NOT DIFFRACTION. The 2-slit experiment you did in school is the one that demonstrates diffraction, and it's included in the article just so that you can keep it straight in your head!
PLEASE STOP MAKING POSTS OF THE 'This is just diffraction! I know all about _that_!' VARIETY!
Thank you.
This is an article about how Americans see themselves -- or rather, about how the author would like them to. It does not appear to actually touch on the economic realities (good or bad) of outsourcing.
Yay for fluff.
However, it is quite interesting in the American self-image that it pushes. While Americans are indeed diverse and tolerant, I think the remarks on innovation (which I hear often) could do with a little consideration.
From the article:
And if it is detected, the Visby should be quick enough to escape as it is only half as light as a conventional corvette.
In other words, its great weight makes it _more_ likely to avoid attacks -- perhaps by escaping downhill.
Ffs, man, get a grip -- your planet and your country are full of people of all religions who don't give a damn about creationism. YOU just want to feel persecuted, so you decide you're being persecuted by Christians, because there's a lot of them and they're unlikely to kill you in return. That's fine, it's great that you've found a way to build up your self image. But please don't confuse it with something 'deeply ingrained into our culture' because most of the members of said culture don't give a shit.
Plenty of ambiguity -- good news for lawyers, bad news for business. Presumably they intend to figure out some long and complex definition of 'custom software' at a later date.