not to mention that the GP instigated a note of personal anxiety by mislaying (intentional? maliciously so, I think!) an apostrophe in the conjoined phrase "It's" in the last sentence.
I move that said poster be spanked into moderation for causing this worthless reply.
> The only way that Skype makes money from its subscribers is when people use its Skype-In or Skype-Out services
that's nice.
as an Irish user of Skype, I'd like to use Skype's "Skype-in" and "Skype-out" services, thereby providing income to Skype and decreasing my normal phone bill.
what? Skype don't provide Skype-in or Skype-out for Ireland? an oversight, maybe - maybe they don't think Irish money is real.
I wonder how many other countries they've ignored because their currencies are not real.
Ninja's do not do competitions. This is something that Maasaki Hatsumi has said - there will never be an official Bujinkan representative at any competition.
As for the past - why would a ninja be so stupid as to fight in a tournament? The way a ninja fights is not in the open - they sneak and kill in secret, and only fight hand-to-hand when there is no alternative.
Would a ninja beat an entire group of shaolin monks? You bet. Wait for them to go to sleep, then pick them off one by one. Easy as pie.
what has 3000 got to do with 2000 and 2050? if you mean that 2050 is halfway between the two, then you should leave verizon and go get a different job - you're thinking of 2500.
anyway - no idea what your comment is supposed to actually be saying.
well bring on Baldur's Gate III, then - storyline, playability... it's all there.
I'm working my way through one of the Neverwinter Nights modules at the moment. The only gripe I have with the AI is that my party members sometimes appear to get "stuck" behind small obstacles and can't figure out how to move around them (wtf? hire a first-year programmer - they're tell you how to do it!).
Those RPGs are still not "AI" in any sense of the word, but they are getting better.
> Is it possible to use Firebug as a profiler of AJAX applications? Can we use it to help us debug some of the serious performance problems me and my coworkers noticed with AJAX applications?
yes.
there is a button called "Profile". you click that, run your script, then click "Profile" again, and a list of functions and how much time they took will show up.
Are you totally mad? How can something as useful as this do anything but increase productivity?
Today, for example, I needed to find out why a certain element in a layout was screwing up the design. All I needed to do was turn on Firebug's inspector, click the element, and read through the list of specific CSS lines that affected that element, and there it was!
Total time wasted - 3 minutes.
If Firebug had not been installed, I would have had to read through three CSS sheets, inspecting each line and figuring out if it could affect the element. Total time wasted could have been measured in hours, then!
1. finish my first college course.
I left school when I was just turning 18. 12 years later, I have finally found a route back into college, and am studying with the Open University, sponsored by my employers.
2. free wifi!
having to pay for communications really irks me. This year, I hope to finally set up the first free wifi station in my area, and convince others to join in.
3. robots!!
I have a project I've been working on for years - a robot that will cut my grass (for starters), and eventually also hoe, sow, and grow vegetables. Last year, I built the first prototype using a Mini-ITX board and some scavenged parts. This year, I hope to use a Gumstix board and bring the robot a bit closer to success.
4. KFM
For years, I've benefited from other people's open source projects. Last year, I started on my own (http://kfm.verens.com/ - an Ajax file browser/manager). This year, I hope to get it to a stage where it Just Works, and I can start pushing it out in earnest.
"confirmation that aliens exist is proof that we have a lot more to learn about physics"
No it's not.
We exist. Our part of the universe is very similar to most other parts of the universe. Therefore life can exist everywhere. Physics has very little to do with it, and that little is very well understood.
Atheism has nothing to do with believing in aliens. Atheism has to do with not believing that everything was created by a sky fairy.
What are "angels", if not extra-terrestrial beings? (ie; they are not terrestrial, therefore they are extra-terrestrial (if they existed at all)).
That could be true right now, but the population is exploding. I think it was Scientific American which recently had an issue dedicated to this. It guessed that the population of the earth would level out at 15 billion, simply because the Earth could not cope with more than that. And then... Soylent Green.
I really don't get this - they banned it because they couldn't think of a scientific reason to go to space??
Come on! If that's right, then the UK should also ban everything else that is not accompanied by a team of ressearchers, including the average person simply getting out of bed in the morning.
Space exploration has much more to offer than simple scientific knowledge. It is known that the Earth will eventually perish, when the sun explodes into a red giant, so space exploration offers, at least, survival of the species!
Also, there are currently more than 6 billion people on this planet. We cannot sustain that. And I really don't trust that we, as a species, are capable of adjusting our lifestyles to become sustainable. So, spave exploration is inevitable!
You simply can't ban something which is inevitable!
Wonder if this has anything to do with assumed emotional stress concerning the films bombings?
Although - If they are doing this to maintain the integrity of the film, so as to not remove any of those scenes - more power to them.
whoops... I wonder if it's the fact that I'm Irish, but I misread that as "more powder to them"
It's not quite perfect yet, and is not accessible yet, but the functionality is there.
When I'm happy with the cart's functionality, I'll be writing an article explaining exactly how it was all done, and what problems I came across while building it (uploading files through AJAX is a pain, for example).
Slashdot Mirror
not to mention that the GP instigated a note of personal anxiety by mislaying (intentional? maliciously so, I think!) an apostrophe in the conjoined phrase "It's" in the last sentence.
I move that said poster be spanked into moderation for causing this worthless reply.
> The only way that Skype makes money from its subscribers is when people use its Skype-In or Skype-Out services
that's nice.
as an Irish user of Skype, I'd like to use Skype's "Skype-in" and "Skype-out" services, thereby providing income to Skype and decreasing my normal phone bill.
what? Skype don't provide Skype-in or Skype-out for Ireland? an oversight, maybe - maybe they don't think Irish money is real.
I wonder how many other countries they've ignored because their currencies are not real.
Ninja's do not do competitions. This is something that Maasaki Hatsumi has said - there will never be an official Bujinkan representative at any competition.
As for the past - why would a ninja be so stupid as to fight in a tournament? The way a ninja fights is not in the open - they sneak and kill in secret, and only fight hand-to-hand when there is no alternative.
Would a ninja beat an entire group of shaolin monks? You bet. Wait for them to go to sleep, then pick them off one by one. Easy as pie.
"Know thine enemy"
I wasn't aware that Sun Tsu spoke archaic English.
what are you on about?
what has 3000 got to do with 2000 and 2050? if you mean that 2050 is halfway between the two, then you should leave verizon and go get a different job - you're thinking of 2500.
anyway - no idea what your comment is supposed to actually be saying.
well bring on Baldur's Gate III, then - storyline, playability... it's all there.
I'm working my way through one of the Neverwinter Nights modules at the moment. The only gripe I have with the AI is that my party members sometimes appear to get "stuck" behind small obstacles and can't figure out how to move around them (wtf? hire a first-year programmer - they're tell you how to do it!).
Those RPGs are still not "AI" in any sense of the word, but they are getting better.
from the article: "destroying an aging Chinese weather satellite target with a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile."
Lasers are not kinetic weapons. They are light-based.
The topic-writer appears to have been confused by the article mentioning that an earlier test used a laser to temporarily brighten a satellite.
> Is it possible to use Firebug as a profiler of AJAX applications? Can we use it to help us debug some of the serious performance problems me and my coworkers noticed with AJAX applications?
yes.
there is a button called "Profile". you click that, run your script, then click "Profile" again, and a list of functions and how much time they took will show up.
Are you totally mad? How can something as useful as this do anything but increase productivity? Today, for example, I needed to find out why a certain element in a layout was screwing up the design. All I needed to do was turn on Firebug's inspector, click the element, and read through the list of specific CSS lines that affected that element, and there it was! Total time wasted - 3 minutes. If Firebug had not been installed, I would have had to read through three CSS sheets, inspecting each line and figuring out if it could affect the element. Total time wasted could have been measured in hours, then!
"Download Only Song to Crack the Top 40" is a bit ambiguous.
Paraphrased, it might be:
"you can download the only song to ever crack the top 40".
Please use hyphens when necessary:
"Download-Only Song to Crack the Top 40"
I have a few plans for 2007.
1. finish my first college course.
I left school when I was just turning 18. 12 years later, I have finally found a route back into college, and am studying with the Open University, sponsored by my employers.
2. free wifi!
having to pay for communications really irks me. This year, I hope to finally set up the first free wifi station in my area, and convince others to join in.
3. robots!!
I have a project I've been working on for years - a robot that will cut my grass (for starters), and eventually also hoe, sow, and grow vegetables. Last year, I built the first prototype using a Mini-ITX board and some scavenged parts. This year, I hope to use a Gumstix board and bring the robot a bit closer to success.
4. KFM
For years, I've benefited from other people's open source projects. Last year, I started on my own (http://kfm.verens.com/ - an Ajax file browser/manager). This year, I hope to get it to a stage where it Just Works, and I can start pushing it out in earnest.
"confirmation that aliens exist is proof that we have a lot more to learn about physics" No it's not. We exist. Our part of the universe is very similar to most other parts of the universe. Therefore life can exist everywhere. Physics has very little to do with it, and that little is very well understood. Atheism has nothing to do with believing in aliens. Atheism has to do with not believing that everything was created by a sky fairy. What are "angels", if not extra-terrestrial beings? (ie; they are not terrestrial, therefore they are extra-terrestrial (if they existed at all)).
Open Source, by definition, discloses its source, which is directly in disagreement with an NDA.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/17/16 56258
The Arctic is just like ice cubes in a glass, yes.
The Antarctic, however, is not. When that ice melts, it will definitely affect the water level.
lol! yes. I spotted that as well, but thought; 'feck it- point made'.
it's "it's" - not "its" (it is)
/me pretends that the spelling of "replyer" was intentional
Thank you! :-)
And for the other replyer; I'll have you know that pedanticism is a perfectly cromulant word:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/di fficultwords/data/d0009747.html
While we're on the subject of pedanticism, I'd like to point out that there is no Santa, superfluous 'e' or not.
Oh - and there should have been a comma before 'ffs' in the parent's post.
That could be true right now, but the population is exploding. I think it was Scientific American which recently had an issue dedicated to this. It guessed that the population of the earth would level out at 15 billion, simply because the Earth could not cope with more than that. And then... Soylent Green.
I really don't get this - they banned it because they couldn't think of a scientific reason to go to space??
Come on! If that's right, then the UK should also ban everything else that is not accompanied by a team of ressearchers, including the average person simply getting out of bed in the morning.
Space exploration has much more to offer than simple scientific knowledge. It is known that the Earth will eventually perish, when the sun explodes into a red giant, so space exploration offers, at least, survival of the species!
Also, there are currently more than 6 billion people on this planet. We cannot sustain that. And I really don't trust that we, as a species, are capable of adjusting our lifestyles to become sustainable. So, spave exploration is inevitable!
You simply can't ban something which is inevitable!
http://web.csuchico.edu/~ah24/the_fun.htm
Isaac Asimov story about robotic teachers, and nostalgia for simpler times
whoops... I wonder if it's the fact that I'm Irish, but I misread that as "more powder to them"
I'm working on something like that - check this out: https://inkjet.ie/shopping cart?catid=22
It's not quite perfect yet, and is not accessible yet, but the functionality is there.
When I'm happy with the cart's functionality, I'll be writing an article explaining exactly how it was all done, and what problems I came across while building it (uploading files through AJAX is a pain, for example).