At some point during high school I remember using a notebook for playing chess and checkers. For obvious reasons, boards were not allowed during class time, but you know there are some *really* boring classes and you gotta find something to keep you awake.
We would layout the checkered pattern with a pen, with minimal difference between dark and white squares, then use pencil and rubber to "move" the pieces around. Each match demanded a new page, as the previous one was trashed.
The listener should still be able to figure it out; context interpretation is only a problem for machines
But what if the word "bank" have a different translation on the target language depending on the context? In English bank can be used to refer to the edge of the river or the money lenders, no problem. But what if these two distinct concepts are expressed by different words on the other language?
The same problem happens the other way around. I speak Portuguese and there are so many things like that, you have to apply context when translating something to English. Quick example: the work "casa" can be both the noun house/home or the verb "to marry". Go figure it:-)
I swear, no matter how great my accomplishments in the computing field, there is still the feeling of nothing REAL accomplished. Nothing permanent, nothing that anyone appreciates. I don't like that feeling.
Hell yeah! that's exactly what I feel. Dunno yet what I'm gonna do when I get tired enough to quit (this career, not a job), but I've been thinking of a small hostel or a ice-cream shop as acceptable "retirement jobs". Not sure though.
Or, if the "accomplish something" beats too hard, I could always take the dust out of my degree in electronics - which I like, but traded for the more abstract wonders of CS long ago.
Hey, the article this guy mentioned deserves to be posted on the front page, on its own. Its pretty impressive, if it is like they say. I never heard of such stuff before, and btw got pretty impressed.
I would be curious about one thing: the range. The drill bit is of a limited size, and it cannot easily get to your throat if is accidentally slips of the teeth you're getting fixed. But the laser is basically (at short distances) a straight line from its emitter, so one small mistake and all that raw power will be frying your inner skin. No good!
Audiogalaxy had something like this, remember? If you were sharing less than 10 files you'd be limited to 2 simultaneous downloads.
I think it was pretty fair a restriction. But not bullet-proof: you could always place some 10 obscure files on your share that no-one would download and still get your download quota...
Except if your player (like mine) don't let you access the chapter menu (or *any* menu/key) while displaying that boring warning in three different languages (I'm on region 4), one at a time.
Considering the very limited sky view from an airplane's window, you might as well not see anything at all. Specially if the lights are on (you may have some luck with light off).
The idea is to pre-pay for the cryonics and put the rest of your assets into investments so that you're rich when you wake up
Now that's just a fucked-up idea! Mind most (economically active) people do that, who's left to actually run the economy and make sure your investments will deserve some return?
:-P
That being said, I want to check the book out, its sure going to be a interesting read at least...
9 digits? Last time I checked, that made room for about 1 billion people. It's still a long way before getting there, but sometime in the future applications will need to be rewritten to accommodate a wider SS#.
Just think of it as the YSN bug, or whatever acronym you can come up with:-))
I can't speak for all the "dot-net languages", but I've been writing lots of ASP.Net code in C# and VB.Net recently and guess what? It's not the tools, it is the framework itself.
I'm not using Visual Studio, I'm working out of the.Net SDK and what makes me all wowed is how quickly I can do things that used to take hours to build on ASP 2.0, like complex form interfaces, data validation, query output, etc. It's well worth looking at the samples to get acquainted with, I bet you'll be surprised with how powerfull and flexible the framework is:-)
Will.net apps written for windows similarly only work with the "windows gui toolkit" (or whatever)?
Yes, they will. As soon as the implementation of the Windows.Forms classes are implemented. That's within the scope of the project and is a big challenge, check it out here.
The.Net framework is a very clean and interesting initiative. Forget Passport, forget web-services and all the other pieces and focus only on the framework and the common language runtime (that the focus of MONO) - its neat, and being able to compile code on several platforms without worrying about ports is a great achievement.
Off course, don't use platform-specific calls (PInvoke) if you want interoperability, but almost everything else is ok.
Should we now scrap all that other studies that suggest coffee consumption can be linked to higher blood pressure, which can in turn be linked to higher risk of heart attacks?
Go for a tiptronic transmission maybe. Pure automatic just means you're out of the loop and don't have control over engine RPM. Don't get me wrong, for inner-city its ok to drive automatic, but on the road I preffer manual.
Tomorrow (Jun/27) Miguel de Icaza itself will present Gnome 2.0 in a event promoted by the "Free Software Project", a local state-sponsored initiative in Free Software, here in the south of Brazil (Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
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At some point during high school I remember using a notebook for playing chess and checkers. For obvious reasons, boards were not allowed during class time, but you know there are some *really* boring classes and you gotta find something to keep you awake.
We would layout the checkered pattern with a pen, with minimal difference between dark and white squares, then use pencil and rubber to "move" the pieces around. Each match demanded a new page, as the previous one was trashed.
The listener should still be able to figure it out; context interpretation is only a problem for machines
But what if the word "bank" have a different translation on the target language depending on the context? In English bank can be used to refer to the edge of the river or the money lenders, no problem. But what if these two distinct concepts are expressed by different words on the other language?
The same problem happens the other way around. I speak Portuguese and there are so many things like that, you have to apply context when translating something to English. Quick example: the work "casa" can be both the noun house/home or the verb "to marry". Go figure it :-)
I swear, no matter how great my accomplishments in the computing field, there is still the feeling of nothing REAL accomplished. Nothing permanent, nothing that anyone appreciates. I don't like that feeling.
Hell yeah! that's exactly what I feel. Dunno yet what I'm gonna do when I get tired enough to quit (this career, not a job), but I've been thinking of a small hostel or a ice-cream shop as acceptable "retirement jobs". Not sure though.
Or, if the "accomplish something" beats too hard, I could always take the dust out of my degree in electronics - which I like, but traded for the more abstract wonders of CS long ago.
Hey, the article this guy mentioned deserves to be posted on the front page, on its own. Its pretty impressive, if it is like they say. I never heard of such stuff before, and btw got pretty impressed.
I would be curious about one thing: the range. The drill bit is of a limited size, and it cannot easily get to your throat if is accidentally slips of the teeth you're getting fixed. But the laser is basically (at short distances) a straight line from its emitter, so one small mistake and all that raw power will be frying your inner skin. No good!
Hey-ho, PC is not limited to only IBM-PCs and their clones, as someone wisely pointed out. Look around ;-)
Audiogalaxy had something like this, remember? If you were sharing less than 10 files you'd be limited to 2 simultaneous downloads.
...
I think it was pretty fair a restriction. But not bullet-proof: you could always place some 10 obscure files on your share that no-one would download and still get your download quota
Except if your player (like mine) don't let you access the chapter menu (or *any* menu/key) while displaying that boring warning in three different languages (I'm on region 4), one at a time.
Saw this on the article over at Space.com:
Few Perseids are ever visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
So I guess you're out of luck, uh? (and me too, by the way)
Considering the very limited sky view from an airplane's window, you might as well not see anything at all. Specially if the lights are on (you may have some luck with light off).
The idea is to pre-pay for the cryonics and put the rest of your assets into investments so that you're rich when you wake up
Now that's just a fucked-up idea! Mind most (economically active) people do that, who's left to actually run the economy and make sure your investments will deserve some return?
:-P
That being said, I want to check the book out, its sure going to be a interesting read at least ...
Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America
Instantly brings me the image of a head in a jar, on the best Futurama style. I was laughing on the idea.
We only have a 9 digit number instead...
9 digits? Last time I checked, that made room for about 1 billion people. It's still a long way before getting there, but sometime in the future applications will need to be rewritten to accommodate a wider SS#.
Just think of it as the YSN bug, or whatever acronym you can come up with :-))
when first installed or on compile
And would you like all your tens or hundreds of modules to prompt you their particular license every time you build the app? Not for me, thanks.
I think he really meant 3. Otherwise, he would had written DCLXVI, right?
The problem is, PNG is well suited for images with few colors, or large areas with the same colors, like computer graphics.
...
Just try to convert your JPEGs to PNG and see how much space they take now
Yeah, I know you loose info on the JPEG algorithm, but for the eye it does not matter much (at least on moderated compression rates)
When is the "burn you're JPEGs" day going to be?
Trouble is, there is no PNG-like alternate that's widely accepted, not yet.
I can't speak for all the "dot-net languages", but I've been writing lots of ASP.Net code in C# and VB.Net recently and guess what? It's not the tools, it is the framework itself.
.Net SDK and what makes me all wowed is how quickly I can do things that used to take hours to build on ASP 2.0, like complex form interfaces, data validation, query output, etc. It's well worth looking at the samples to get acquainted with, I bet you'll be surprised with how powerfull and flexible the framework is :-)
I'm not using Visual Studio, I'm working out of the
Will .net apps written for windows similarly only work with the "windows gui toolkit" (or whatever)?
Yes, they will. As soon as the implementation of the Windows.Forms classes are implemented. That's within the scope of the project and is a big challenge, check it out here.
On a side note, I would like to see Ximian or the GNU Foundation talking at how MONO and DOT-GNU differ on purpose or how they are similar.
Frankly, they seem to have the same end goal, and I'm afraid this is a duplicate effort that would be better off if they joined forces.
Dot-GNU: http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/index.html
The .Net framework is a very clean and interesting initiative. Forget Passport, forget web-services and all the other pieces and focus only on the framework and the common language runtime (that the focus of MONO) - its neat, and being able to compile code on several platforms without worrying about ports is a great achievement.
Off course, don't use platform-specific calls (PInvoke) if you want interoperability, but almost everything else is ok.
Should we now scrap all that other studies that suggest coffee consumption can be linked to higher blood pressure, which can in turn be linked to higher risk of heart attacks?
Go for a tiptronic transmission maybe. Pure automatic just means you're out of the loop and don't have control over engine RPM. Don't get me wrong, for inner-city its ok to drive automatic, but on the road I preffer manual.
Gee, what's wrong with you people? the parent post should be moded as 5:Funny, it's pure irony!
Tomorrow (Jun/27) Miguel de Icaza itself will present Gnome 2.0 in a event promoted by the "Free Software Project", a local state-sponsored initiative in Free Software, here in the south of Brazil (Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
For those near by, here are some pointers:
Roadshow calendar:G NOMEenelSur.html
http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/
The local announcement and invitation:= mais_noticias2&cod=1024761626&tab=1
http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/index.php?menu
(Portuguese only!)
Way to go guys!