The same way 'centre' is pronounced 'cen-tree'? Of course this is just the way that the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, etc. spell it and since the USA spells it wrong, they must be right:) -- Note this is not an anti-US flame, just that English is a little bit decoupled in the spelling vs. pronounciation dept.
Indeed, when will everyone realise that it should be dd/mm/yyyy, 'litres' not 'liters', 'metres' not 'meters', 'English' and 'American' not 'British English' and 'US English', 'British' != 'English', '...ise' not '...ize', and.. oh whats the use.
In actual fact, similar things have been going on this side of the pond with market traders going all the way to the European court to claim the right to sell produce in pounds and ounces rather than kilogrammes and grammes.
I have yet to see one person who can sensibly claim Imperial measurements ('English' measurments to our US bretherin) are useful for technical specs and calculations.
This was probably the 1960 version of the time machine (more info here). Its interesting to note that this version is also dated more by the changes it made than by the special effects (of which the time-travelling sequences are easily as good as this modern re-make).
In this case, our hero George stops off in 1990's London and has an atomic bomb dropped on him (very 60s).
Hey.. you know what the damn thing looks like...
on
Tiqit Handheld PC
·
· Score: 2, Funny
Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the pictures of this thing and the Hitchikers' Huide to the Galaxy that was in the TV episodes?
Not fundamentally but at least with Unix you can just issue the command 'chsh' to swap which shell you use. Also there is nothing to stop you (given root access) replacing/bin/sh with bash or ash.
However, you can't change, for example, the HTML rendering engine which Windows Explorer uses to show the file-layout as easily.
On the same site is a cool HOWTO of how to make an old monitor into a cardboard + plastic model of the final level from Doom ][. Just follow this link.
My understanding of the process lead me to believe that (unfortunately) only US citizens were eligable to comment on the Settlement. In which case, Alan (being from Swansea, Wales last time I checked) would not be able to comment.
I wonder if the DoJ will publish the 20-page rambling post-Fair Justice for All comment Katz made...
At the moment it appears that any alternative will require developers to fork up money to help pay for the bandwidth.
Is your project a Free (in both senses) Software project? If so, perhaps you could move it onto the FSF's savannah system. This is a site based on Sourceforge but a) run by the FSF so is less likely to do things to harm free software and b) supported by a well-established foundation which is unlikely to sell it off.
Disclaimer: It is possible you wont read this line.
1) Both Delphi and Kylix have a similar IDE and is IMHO very nicely designed. Also it inherits the concetually intuitive concept of control 'properties' and form painting of VB.
2) The compiler is blisteringly fast.
3) Programs written in Delphi will generally compile under Kylix and vice-vera
4) Unlike VB, Object Pascal encourages Good Practice (TM). Is properly object oriented. Provides 'properties' (implicit get/set methods -- the lack of these is one of the major faults with C++ IMHO) and (at least a few years ago) you get a full language specification with the product.
5) Kylix is free (as in beer) for the creation of GPL apps.
6) Kylix uses the Qt widget set (oooh pretty)
7) Events directly mapped to method calls
8) Doesn't have garbage collection per se but then not many languages do. Again IMHO garbage collectors generally provide solutions which work OK for most cases but will never compare with properly coded programs.
9) Borland have a long history of quality development products.
10) A comprehensive OO class library comes as standard.
Re:Perhaps the news didn't reach me in England...
on
Collateral Damage
·
· Score: 1
Oh yeah.. US forum I forgot. I'll remember to surround things with tags for those of us lacking in a sense of humour (and yes it _is_ 'humour').
Disclaimer: The bracketted statement above was intended purely as a troll. The author disclaims all liability for offence caused by the reader's total lack of a sense of humour. This comment was provided in the hope that it was funny but the author cannot be held to any Warrenty, implied of explicit, nor can he gurantee fitness of the comment for a particular purpose.
Hey, if you are still reading this far, I bet you are the sorta guy who gets past 'I AGREE' in click-throught license agreements!
Perhaps the news didn't reach me in England...
on
Collateral Damage
·
· Score: 2, Funny
The post-9/11 action/terrorism movie is now a genre all of its own.
Hey, did I miss something? What happened on the 9th of Novemeber?
Slashdot Mirror
The same way 'centre' is pronounced 'cen-tree'? Of course this is just the way that the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, etc. spell it and since the USA spells it wrong, they must be right :) -- Note this is not an anti-US flame, just that English is a little bit decoupled in the spelling vs. pronounciation dept.
Indeed, when will everyone realise that it should be dd/mm/yyyy, 'litres' not 'liters', 'metres' not 'meters', 'English' and 'American' not 'British English' and 'US English', 'British' != 'English', '...ise' not '...ize', and.. oh whats the use.
In actual fact, similar things have been going on this side of the pond with market traders going all the way to the European court to claim the right to sell produce in pounds and ounces rather than kilogrammes and grammes.
I have yet to see one person who can sensibly claim Imperial measurements ('English' measurments to our US bretherin) are useful for technical specs and calculations.
In this case, our hero George stops off in 1990's London and has an atomic bomb dropped on him (very 60s).
Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the pictures of this thing and the Hitchikers' Huide to the Galaxy that was in the TV episodes?
However, you can't change, for example, the HTML rendering engine which Windows Explorer uses to show the file-layout as easily.
Er... with Linux can't you just disable all the TCP/IP stuff via a 'make [x|menu]config then just re-compile?
On the same site is a cool HOWTO of how to make an old monitor into a cardboard + plastic model of the final level from Doom ][. Just follow this link.
I wonder if the DoJ will publish the 20-page rambling post-Fair Justice for All comment Katz made...
Is your project a Free (in both senses) Software project? If so, perhaps you could move it onto the FSF's savannah system. This is a site based on Sourceforge but a) run by the FSF so is less likely to do things to harm free software and b) supported by a well-established foundation which is unlikely to sell it off.
Disclaimer: It is possible you wont read this line.
Available from:
3 20 7/1/
http://borland.com
Review:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/
Community/Resources:
http://www.delphizine.com/
10 Reasons to use Delph/Kylix:
1) Both Delphi and Kylix have a similar IDE and is IMHO very nicely designed. Also it inherits the concetually intuitive concept of control 'properties' and form painting of VB.
2) The compiler is blisteringly fast.
3) Programs written in Delphi will generally compile under Kylix and vice-vera
4) Unlike VB, Object Pascal encourages Good Practice (TM). Is properly object oriented. Provides 'properties' (implicit get/set methods -- the lack of these is one of the major faults with C++ IMHO) and (at least a few years ago) you get a full language specification with the product.
5) Kylix is free (as in beer) for the creation of GPL apps.
6) Kylix uses the Qt widget set (oooh pretty)
7) Events directly mapped to method calls
8) Doesn't have garbage collection per se but then not many languages do. Again IMHO garbage collectors generally provide solutions which work OK for most cases but will never compare with properly coded programs.
9) Borland have a long history of quality development products.
10) A comprehensive OO class library comes as standard.
Hey, did I miss something? What happened on the 9th of Novemeber?
There is always someone who'll find a way to get Mr. Goatse past the moderators....