It's, like, so totally true and stuff. Like, all those dudes who, like, totally talk with funny accents and stuff and, like, seem to be all airhead... but they're not, you know?
Like, gag me with a spoon--we need to, like, totally look past that and, like, see a person's intelligence for their content and stuff.
Hopefully, we're not yet so politically correct that we have to affirm that cultures that kill infants, or own slaves, or torture animals before death to make them taste better, etc. are just as good as our own.
It's not about political correctness, nor is it about being "good."
As outsiders, we judge them and believe we're in the right. Outsiders looking at us would surely find something wrong in what we do.
Technically, it also depends on what is implied by "idolatry." The Baptist conception of idolatry happens to include "putting other things above God," which in this case would include worshipping other gods.
IANAB, but I went to a Baptist school for the great majority of my primary, middle, and high schooling.
Ehh??? Mobs 5 levels or more below you are pretty hard to aggro unless you walk on top of them.
But isn't that exactly his point? I don't know about you, but if I saw a Big Galoot with a Massive Sword of Disemboweling, I don't think I'd run up to him and start whacking away at him with a toothpick. Hell, I wouldn't touch him even if he walked right in my face.
I mean, if he starts killing me, I'll fight back, but I wouldn't start anything.
I fancy myself as "curious." As far as I know, it's considered common practice to date AFJs as actually happening on April 1st. The fact that the page is back-dated made me think that this is actually serious.
-and, judging from P's sibling post, it may very well be.
Of course, there's the possibility that the regulars in that channel are conspiring to pull a fast one on everyone... but really, need we go into conspiracy theories about this?
The screenshots leave much to be desired. Their bootlog.txt, likewise, looks hacked together from a standard NT boot and a CLI transcript. Plus, their Quick Install Reference mentions a "nt-isocreator.sh" script which is missing from the main page, pending a blessing from their lawyer friend.
Perhaps someone could check on #gentoo-nt on irc.freenode.net (also from the quick-install ref) to see what's up?
Assuming this is a joke, kudos to them for back-dating the page; I'm now curious.
This doesn't seem a direct result of using hard tabs. Rather, this seems a problem that would more efficiently be solved with a team-standardized tab convention. Whether the team chooses hard or soft tabs, the point is really that use should be uniform for all coders on a given project. After all, if everyone plays nicely together, then there's no problem.
In my experience, I have just as much trouble dealing with different coders' conventions for soft-tabs. 4, 3, 6, whatever--it's always something different, and I end up having to "just deal."
My preferred solution is to run the code through an indentation utility (or sometimes manually re-indent the code), replacing hard tabs where needed. Then I just set my editor to use a 4-wide tab width and make a note in the code comments saying what I've done.
As the GGP mentioned, I've found this to be the best workable solution for me and those that I work with.
In FFXI, you use maybe one ability per battle: a weapon skill. And figuring out "the right time" to use that is easy: as soon as it's available. Figuring out which ability to use is easy too: the last one you got, since it's the strongest.
Actually, the right time to use a WS is when another WS in the party is available, given that the other WS is able to make a skillchain. Bonus points if you have mages in-party who can burst off the SC. Likewise, the right ability to use is not always the last one you got: a properly placed SA+Fast Blade (say, to close Distortion) is stronger than Flat Blade.
Two-factor authentication mitigates this problem. If your password includes a number that changes every minute, or a unique reply to a random challenge, then it's harder for someone else to intercept. You can't write down the ever-changing part. An intercepted password won't be good the next time it's needed. And a two-factor password is harder to guess. Sure, someone can always give his password and token to his secretary, but no solution is foolproof.
My friend who used to work at some larger company (before he worked for an Even Larger Company) used a token generator to log into the company VPN. It would generate a random number, then hash that against his password, yielding a value which he actually put into the VPN password box. Nifty little doodad.
I see the point, but doesn't the free truck include access to a horde of people (many with good service track records) who are willing to work on the free truck for a (nominal) support contract?
To follow the analogy further, doesn't the $150k truck also require you to extend the warranty for x dollars per year?
A client who doesn't have a group of developers would be less inclined to be wowed by the wonders of Open Source when one of the main selling points is that "you can extend it." In this case, I suppose that you could extend the base application for them for a fee, and provide support on that.
That aside, I imagine that selling this idea to a larger corporation would be a hard sell--those types, if I'm gauging the vibe correctly, prefer to work with "established companies" because they feel "safer." Given this case, how would one convince a larger corporation that FOSS is as safe, if not safer, than the stuff peddled by "established companies"?
Judging from the article, it seems that the IDF is frowning upon LARPers, not D&Ders per se.
At least, that's what I get from all the pictures and quotations like "[soon] hundreds of fans are expected to meet in a forest in the southern part of Israel for a two-day game of pure fantasy."
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I rather like this table, rather than the busy one with the galaxy as a background: more information with less cruft.
Duly noted.
I didn't see that interpretation at all. Thanks.
-the "either..or" construct implies an exclusive-or relationship between the connected topics.
Reference: grammar school and this.
Fer sure, dude.
It's, like, so totally true and stuff. Like, all those dudes who, like, totally talk with funny accents and stuff and, like, seem to be all airhead... but they're not, you know?
Like, gag me with a spoon--we need to, like, totally look past that and, like, see a person's intelligence for their content and stuff.
Like, that'd be rad, dontcha think?
According to the many (varied) people I've heard pronounce it, "definately" is usually a closer match than "definitely."
As outsiders, we judge them and believe we're in the right. Outsiders looking at us would surely find something wrong in what we do.
Who's right then?
Technically, it also depends on what is implied by "idolatry." The Baptist conception of idolatry happens to include "putting other things above God," which in this case would include worshipping other gods.
IANAB, but I went to a Baptist school for the great majority of my primary, middle, and high schooling.
I mean, if he starts killing me, I'll fight back, but I wouldn't start anything.
-and, judging from P's sibling post, it may very well be.
Of course, there's the possibility that the regulars in that channel are conspiring to pull a fast one on everyone... but really, need we go into conspiracy theories about this?
The screenshots leave much to be desired. Their bootlog.txt, likewise, looks hacked together from a standard NT boot and a CLI transcript. Plus, their Quick Install Reference mentions a "nt-isocreator.sh" script which is missing from the main page, pending a blessing from their lawyer friend.
Perhaps someone could check on #gentoo-nt on irc.freenode.net (also from the quick-install ref) to see what's up?
Assuming this is a joke, kudos to them for back-dating the page; I'm now curious.
On a second re-read, I realize what my post sounded like.
I meant to imply this: I replace all occurrences of soft-tabs with hard tabs, and make a note in the code that I have done so.
(That's what I get for trying to multitask.)
This doesn't seem a direct result of using hard tabs. Rather, this seems a problem that would more efficiently be solved with a team-standardized tab convention. Whether the team chooses hard or soft tabs, the point is really that use should be uniform for all coders on a given project. After all, if everyone plays nicely together, then there's no problem.
In my experience, I have just as much trouble dealing with different coders' conventions for soft-tabs. 4, 3, 6, whatever--it's always something different, and I end up having to "just deal."
My preferred solution is to run the code through an indentation utility (or sometimes manually re-indent the code), replacing hard tabs where needed. Then I just set my editor to use a 4-wide tab width and make a note in the code comments saying what I've done.
As the GGP mentioned, I've found this to be the best workable solution for me and those that I work with.
That was the response I had in mind.
Thanks.
I prefer using hard tabs and letting the IDE/editor use a specified tab-width (say, 4 spaces per tab character).
IIRC, both Vim and Eclipse support this kind of tab-handling, and it's served me well thus far. I'm rather curious: why the bias against hard tabs?
The second linked article, anyway:
Two-factor authentication mitigates this problem. If your password includes a number that changes every minute, or a unique reply to a random challenge, then it's harder for someone else to intercept. You can't write down the ever-changing part. An intercepted password won't be good the next time it's needed. And a two-factor password is harder to guess. Sure, someone can always give his password and token to his secretary, but no solution is foolproof.
My friend who used to work at some larger company (before he worked for an Even Larger Company) used a token generator to log into the company VPN. It would generate a random number, then hash that against his password, yielding a value which he actually put into the VPN password box. Nifty little doodad.
According to Babel Fish:
Ce que vous ne savez pas ne peut pas vous blesser and l'ignorance est bonheur.
The condemned seems to think differently.
I was actually thinking of a pen-and-paper game, but thanks for reminding me--it's been a while since I last played FFX.
I see the point, but doesn't the free truck include access to a horde of people (many with good service track records) who are willing to work on the free truck for a (nominal) support contract?
To follow the analogy further, doesn't the $150k truck also require you to extend the warranty for x dollars per year?
Perhaps someone should make a sports-based RPG, like playing basketball or football or football with a bunch of dice-rolling.
...or has this already been done?
A client who doesn't have a group of developers would be less inclined to be wowed by the wonders of Open Source when one of the main selling points is that "you can extend it." In this case, I suppose that you could extend the base application for them for a fee, and provide support on that.
That aside, I imagine that selling this idea to a larger corporation would be a hard sell--those types, if I'm gauging the vibe correctly, prefer to work with "established companies" because they feel "safer." Given this case, how would one convince a larger corporation that FOSS is as safe, if not safer, than the stuff peddled by "established companies"?
Judging from the article, it seems that the IDF is frowning upon LARPers, not D&Ders per se.
At least, that's what I get from all the pictures and quotations like "[soon] hundreds of fans are expected to meet in a forest in the southern part of Israel for a two-day game of pure fantasy."
That "8" is Something Bad, according to your intrinsic warning.