A comment from the article: "That was almost 10 years ago."
Nothing against it, but GTK+ is very old news. As a reminder,
this is Slashdot, "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters",
not Digg, "News for Newbies. Stuff that matters if you're
a stoned teenager." Besides, if you really want a portable
GUI toolkit, it's called a web browser. Time to get AJAXing,
happy smurf.
Hahaha.. yeah that's what I meant. I studied some Spanish in highschool, and now I live in a
French-speaking region. Although I forget almost everything about Spanish, I can read it fairly well since I've learned French, and I can even understand a little when people are speaking.
What I meant about French being harder than Spanish (in my opinion) is that, like English,
the spelling and pronunciation are very irregular, whereas the spelling and pronunciation in
Spanish are quite regular as far as I know. And like you said, maybe Spanish is more similar
to Latin. For example, the word "next" in Spanish is "proximo" ( ),
and I think it's "proximus" in Latin, while in French it's "prochain". So apparently
(totally guessing) somewhere along the line, French turned the 'x' into 'ch' and
the 'im' into 'ain' and dropped the last vowel. The point is that the pronunciation
got distorted (or evolved, or changed). On the other hand, the vocabulary for both languages
is fairly similar (which is why I can mostly read Spanish, only remembering a few grammar
rules); in fact, the vocabulary for French is probably a little easier since so many English
words are from French.
By contrast, I'm learning Chinese now, and although the grammar seems wonderfully simple,
the vocabulary is a bastard since it's totally different. There are no Latin roots in common
(Well, for the most part... There are undoubtedly some, like the word "ka fei" is similar
to "café" or "coffee". I don't know if that comes from a Latin root.).
Peruvians, for example, have a particularly neutral and well-pronounced one... As a native Spanish speaker born in Perú...
So you're not biased or anything, right?:)
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By "sane", I assume you mean "not conducive to implementing
the language features you listed", since apparently only the
"insane" language has managed to do that.
(Now watch, whereas your flippant comment was marked Insightful,
I will be a Troll.)
I think of the infinite recursion like a tv camera hooked up to a monitor and then pointed at the monitor so you get a picture of the picture of the picture
If that was true -- and I really doubt it --
but if several people would swear in a court of law
that he said that, he needs to be impeached. Federal agents show up
on a *kid*'s doorstep because he wanted to read a book, yet the
*president* would be allowed to say something like that
IN FRONT OF PEOPLE and get away with it.... Abusing your power
to convince a woman to suck you off would be nothing compared to that kind
of abuse of power, abusing it to gain more of it.
It's interesting to think of it that way, but I think you're
twisting words. If the US for some reason gave $100 billion to,
say, Mexico, would you say that we'd lost a war with Mexico?
How about if the US gave $10 million to Canada, did they sucker us
out of that money using their leet Sun Tsu teknix? If I give
$5 to someone begging for change, have they taken the initiative
in our little social war? You seem to be implying that China and
India were sitting there waiting for the right moment to pounce.
Furthermore, I don't have much trust in the $1 trillion number
you gave, or that it has any meaning. I also would prefer to have
real information, rather than relying on a newsworthy (money-making) story that claims that OMFG the Chinese military is attacking us!!!
In the attacks, Paller said, the perpetrators "were in and out with no keystroke errors and left no fingerprints, and created a backdoor in less than 30 minutes. How can this be done by anyone other than a military organization?"
I was going to ask if anyone knew why it was called *Donkey* Kong.
Then I googled "name donkey kong", and it pointed to the Wikipedia
entry where it explains that
The name was chosen by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto as a combination of the word "Kong", since the movie King Kong had caused it 'to colloquially mean monkey' in Japan. According to Snopes, "Donkey", was chosen because Miyamoto intended it "to convey a sense of stubbornness."
No, I found it to be boring, too. Though I should admit that I also
found your post boring, especially since you criticized the game so
I can no longer do that. When I started reading the comments I was like,
"man, I'm going to rip the Sims a new one, and probably everyone will
mod me down because everytime I'm critical about anything I get modded
down. Yet other people like you can be critical like that and get a
+5 Interesting. It's like I'm a Sim and the Slashdot moderators are the
cruel players.
A company who patents obvious web-application technology
is now freely using wiki technology (and getting publicity
for it on what is now basically a webvertisement site).
I can only continue not buying anything from them,
trying to keep my rage in check.
I'm not sure I understand why you say that gzip can only compress one file.
It's pretty clear from its manpage that it takes multiple files
and also has a recursive option to descend into directories.
(It's clear however that you don't need to tar a single file, unless there's
some reason like to fit within a system that expects to receive tarballs.)
...where could I go to receive ads from the WSJ about someone posting
unedited stuff on a webpage about baseball...?
Now I know: Slashdot! By the way, does anybody like know where I could get ads
about gossip on Jennifer Lopez? OMG PLEASE POST THEM HERE!!!
Well, wait till the EU sinks in more. See how the Swiss like democracy
when their anti-Europeanism is no longer cute like a barking Yorkshire
Terrier and they're forced to make further compromises.
Also, although you paint a rosy picture, and I don't want to really
argue against it, from another perspective you might say that
Switzerland is a xenophobic police state run by rich bankers.
In any case, being one of the richer countries yet having a population
smaller than Shanghai, it's clear that the Swiss are indeed an exception.
but you have to see the other side of the coin as well. How much do you know about the states?, your knowledge about that is probably just as bad as theirs is of europe;)
I know, right? Although I'm surprised sometimes how much some of
my French friends here know about the US, if you think about it,
Americans probably know about the same amount about Europe
geographically. A French person probably knows roughly where
New York, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are,
and it seems like a lot because it's all in one country.
But even before I was living in Europe I knew roughly where Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, and Rome were. Okay, maybe I didn't have a clear picture of where Switzerland was situated,
but then again how many Europeans know where Ohio is?
There will be some, just like there will be some Americans
who know Switzerland. Now, they probably think people there
speak "Swiss", but that's another story.:) (I consider myself
a fairly knowledgeable person, so it's somewhat embarrassing
that I didn't realize people spoke French in Geneva, Switzerland. Or maybe I did somewhere subconsciously, but I'd never really
thought about it.)
You say "even Hawking", as if he towers over other physicists,
but I don't see what you'd base that on. It's true that he's
really famous and kicks ass when it comes to blackholes...
but I don't think Hawking is in the same league as Feynman
(to take another famous personality), Heisenberg, Planck,
at least in terms of useful ideas (how are we to ever really
know if there's a singularity inside a blackhole?).
For that matter, where would Einstein have gotten without
his friend Minkowski or without the work of Lorentz or Planck.
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A comment from the article: "That was almost 10 years ago." Nothing against it, but GTK+ is very old news. As a reminder, this is Slashdot, "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters", not Digg, "News for Newbies. Stuff that matters if you're a stoned teenager." Besides, if you really want a portable GUI toolkit, it's called a web browser. Time to get AJAXing, happy smurf.
Hahaha.. yeah that's what I meant. I studied some Spanish in highschool, and now I live in a French-speaking region. Although I forget almost everything about Spanish, I can read it fairly well since I've learned French, and I can even understand a little when people are speaking. What I meant about French being harder than Spanish (in my opinion) is that, like English, the spelling and pronunciation are very irregular, whereas the spelling and pronunciation in Spanish are quite regular as far as I know. And like you said, maybe Spanish is more similar to Latin. For example, the word "next" in Spanish is "proximo" ( ), and I think it's "proximus" in Latin, while in French it's "prochain". So apparently (totally guessing) somewhere along the line, French turned the 'x' into 'ch' and the 'im' into 'ain' and dropped the last vowel. The point is that the pronunciation got distorted (or evolved, or changed). On the other hand, the vocabulary for both languages is fairly similar (which is why I can mostly read Spanish, only remembering a few grammar rules); in fact, the vocabulary for French is probably a little easier since so many English words are from French.
By contrast, I'm learning Chinese now, and although the grammar seems wonderfully simple, the vocabulary is a bastard since it's totally different. There are no Latin roots in common (Well, for the most part... There are undoubtedly some, like the word "ka fei" is similar to "café" or "coffee". I don't know if that comes from a Latin root.).
So you're not biased or anything, right? :)
By "sane", I assume you mean "not conducive to implementing the language features you listed", since apparently only the "insane" language has managed to do that. (Now watch, whereas your flippant comment was marked Insightful, I will be a Troll.)
Like the Infinite Cat Project.
No way that French is easier than Spanish.
I thought the project I worked on had a lot of bugs.
If that was true -- and I really doubt it -- but if several people would swear in a court of law that he said that, he needs to be impeached. Federal agents show up on a *kid*'s doorstep because he wanted to read a book, yet the *president* would be allowed to say something like that IN FRONT OF PEOPLE and get away with it.... Abusing your power to convince a woman to suck you off would be nothing compared to that kind of abuse of power, abusing it to gain more of it.
It's interesting to think of it that way, but I think you're twisting words. If the US for some reason gave $100 billion to, say, Mexico, would you say that we'd lost a war with Mexico? How about if the US gave $10 million to Canada, did they sucker us out of that money using their leet Sun Tsu teknix? If I give $5 to someone begging for change, have they taken the initiative in our little social war? You seem to be implying that China and India were sitting there waiting for the right moment to pounce.
Furthermore, I don't have much trust in the $1 trillion number you gave, or that it has any meaning. I also would prefer to have real information, rather than relying on a newsworthy (money-making) story that claims that OMFG the Chinese military is attacking us!!!
Amazing logic there!
I was going to ask if anyone knew why it was called *Donkey* Kong. Then I googled "name donkey kong", and it pointed to the Wikipedia entry where it explains that
Reminds me of copyrights
That should be modded 'Insightful'.
No, I found it to be boring, too. Though I should admit that I also found your post boring, especially since you criticized the game so I can no longer do that. When I started reading the comments I was like, "man, I'm going to rip the Sims a new one, and probably everyone will mod me down because everytime I'm critical about anything I get modded down. Yet other people like you can be critical like that and get a +5 Interesting. It's like I'm a Sim and the Slashdot moderators are the cruel players.
Considering how fucked up mod_perl2 is, I don't blame them.
You Have Been Trolled
A company who patents obvious web-application technology is now freely using wiki technology (and getting publicity for it on what is now basically a webvertisement site). I can only continue not buying anything from them, trying to keep my rage in check.
Hah, no only kidding.
:|
I'm not sure I understand why you say that gzip can only compress one file. It's pretty clear from its manpage that it takes multiple files and also has a recursive option to descend into directories. (It's clear however that you don't need to tar a single file, unless there's some reason like to fit within a system that expects to receive tarballs.)
Why are you calling a "Draft Advisory Opinion" by a commission a "ruling"?
Posting to slashdot won't do anything for you.
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If I melted Lite Brite pegs and ate the resulting rainbow fondue, my vomit would resemble that site.
...where could I go to receive ads from the WSJ about someone posting unedited stuff on a webpage about baseball...? Now I know: Slashdot! By the way, does anybody like know where I could get ads about gossip on Jennifer Lopez? OMG PLEASE POST THEM HERE!!!
Even better, you could have MS Windows on your TP. The overhead of the per-roll license might be a little expensive, though.
Well, wait till the EU sinks in more. See how the Swiss like democracy when their anti-Europeanism is no longer cute like a barking Yorkshire Terrier and they're forced to make further compromises. Also, although you paint a rosy picture, and I don't want to really argue against it, from another perspective you might say that Switzerland is a xenophobic police state run by rich bankers. In any case, being one of the richer countries yet having a population smaller than Shanghai, it's clear that the Swiss are indeed an exception.
I know, right? Although I'm surprised sometimes how much some of my French friends here know about the US, if you think about it, Americans probably know about the same amount about Europe geographically. A French person probably knows roughly where New York, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are, and it seems like a lot because it's all in one country. But even before I was living in Europe I knew roughly where Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, and Rome were. Okay, maybe I didn't have a clear picture of where Switzerland was situated, but then again how many Europeans know where Ohio is? There will be some, just like there will be some Americans who know Switzerland. Now, they probably think people there speak "Swiss", but that's another story. :) (I consider myself
a fairly knowledgeable person, so it's somewhat embarrassing
that I didn't realize people spoke French in Geneva, Switzerland. Or maybe I did somewhere subconsciously, but I'd never really
thought about it.)
You say "even Hawking", as if he towers over other physicists, but I don't see what you'd base that on. It's true that he's really famous and kicks ass when it comes to blackholes... but I don't think Hawking is in the same league as Feynman (to take another famous personality), Heisenberg, Planck, at least in terms of useful ideas (how are we to ever really know if there's a singularity inside a blackhole?). For that matter, where would Einstein have gotten without his friend Minkowski or without the work of Lorentz or Planck.