Massive Zelda fan and I'll definitely give you that point, Zelda:TP is more linear than previous Zelda's.
I'm not sure if it really detracts from the game though... Zelda:TP has a much stronger storyline than previous incarnations and hence the more strict storyline. As far as "Zelda Moments" go, the bits with Llia in them are right up there for me.
I'm sorry, that was a terribly unclear explanation. Bison parses a text file and generates C given the rules you give it, but the C it generates has to contain some sort of code written by the peoeple who wrote Bison to follow the rules you gave it.
Once again that was unclear... gah. basically, Bison parses text, according to your rules, and outputs C. However if you think about it, at least some (most) of that C has to be pre-written before it can be generated like that, hence, the original C is technically under the GPL, and technically being copied to your output.
Basically it seems you've got 'patents' and 'copyright' confused.. not surprising really, it's a morass.
The GPL is just copyright, it applies to the specific thing you created, if you were to come up with some amazing new compression algorithm and release the code under the GPL, without patenting it, that algorithm could be re-implemented with different code by anyone and they would not have to release their code under the GPL.
The reason for a program like Bison having the output GPL'd, is that Bison actually creates lots of the output using its own code, ie, the Bison output HAS GPL code in it. Fortunately there's the exception which makes this a non-issue.
Feeding troll I know but ffs..
What is your problem? I never said I was "vexed" with the way mac's work, I don't have a problem with it, it's what they're designed for.
And as for your ridiculous insults, the "dweebs" designed and built your beloved mac mate.
Christ. The only interface more horrid than MDI is having a bajillion free floating windows that don't have any obvious connection to one another.
With that, how about GIMP gets USABLE before ya cram in more "features". For a while there I could've sworn you were talking about Photoshop on a mac, my mistake...
I'm sorry but that is just idiotic.
90% of what I do on a computer is working with text, and blind people have been able to read for a VERY long time.
Hell a significant amount of people on this very site would claim to never do any work outside an xterm.
1.5 applications per employee per week, without taking account of holiday time, employees in admin etc.
Try researching the validity of 1.5 20 page technical documents for a field you have absolutely no expertise in a week.
alas not really a possibility, I am the "data guy" on a testing team, and therefore the queries I run are never the same.
Also, I constantly use the "schema browser" function of the application to look things up. I am a big proponent of using the CLI wherever possible, I learnt perl for that very reason (and it has saved me hours upon hours), but a GUI program really is the best option for me in this case, as much because my knowledge of databases is fairly limited as anything else.
The poster who explained it was a GP, mine was a SPECIFIC counter of the parent poster's claim that a programmer must go to great lengths to disable the "faking" process.
A specific example of a generic problem is always handy.
For anyone interested the program is TOAD for Oracle, AVOID.
Nobody else had thought to do that, so Microsoft did it and patented it. Obviousness ain't fucking retroactive.
Aside from every laptop or ATX power button for the last 10 years you mean?
Throwing around a lot of invectives for someone who thinks timing a button press is innovative...
You're right of course, and it does work (in a very cluggy and unresponsive kind of way), however they don't have to go to great lengths to stop it. As the GP pointed out, goddamned fucking modal dialogs stop this working.
The SQL client I use at work has a modal dialog box pop up while executing a query, unfortunately because of the size of the data sets I'm working on some of my queries go for hours, the program itself also frequently crashes.
bada bing, without too much effort on the developers part I have an application that takes over my screen all the time.
GP is right, having the client process deal with window messages is right up there with Microsoft's worst bad design decisions.
Yeah, Good luck with that
From the linked article "INFECTION with sexually transmitted HPVs is common -- about 75 per cent of women become infected at some point."
By the way, that's an exceptionally good article on the two HPV vaccines coming to market, and if anything gives a very valid reason why Gardisil should not be a mandatory vaccine. (Although it's competitor maybe should)
The point being that you can use the eavesdropper-aware channel to exchange a key-pair that you KNOW hasn't been intercepted. After that you can use any medium as your safe channel.
I've seen summaries with better understanding of technical topics in my local, small town, tabloid newspaper.
Really what nerd approves a summary like that?
No mod-points so just a "hear hear" from me.
I use perl for the exact same reason you do.
Also, I'm alternating between windows and unix all the time, and interfacing with Oracle db's a lot, two things that perl does VERY well.
But all I'm doing is pushing logs back and forward, parsing them, possibly generating reports on the RI of the db etc.
Oh, and for writing your sql for you, perl is gold for that, ever had to refactor every key in a 100+m row schema? blerch.
You must have read a different article to me, one that makes consumers criminals, the one I read was banning the sale of light bulbs that don't meet an efficiency requirement.
While converting to technologies other than coal, or at least to "clean" coal is obviously the goal, that doesn't make simple and practical savings worthless.
There are massive water shortages across Aus atm, in Victoria billions of litres is lost to an inefficient open-channel irrigation system, but that doesn't mean getting people to use water efficient shower heads isn't a good step.
Anecdotal evidence tells me that so few people in Aus have dimmer switches that it's largely irrelevant.
They were popular for maybe 3 years in the 90s here.
Uh no. See, that's not how it works, because your power can come from sources other than coal or oil
Not in Australia where the story is based it can't..
ick, one of the worst comments I've ever read, programmers not lazy? uh, why do you think most of us started writing programs? Because it's better to make the computer do it than do it ourselves.
You've confused lazy with simple, the reason programmers like *nix based OS's is because they can do most ANYTHING quicker than it can be done on Windows, the fact that it's not simple just doesn't worry people whose laziness doesn't extend to learning.
If you're not a technical person, don't bother using linux, you're fighting an uphill battle, it's designed by programmers for programmers.
Also, from what I read this technology still functions at very low differentials, ie 30 degrees celsius, as opposed to the hundreds that just using two metals requires.
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Massive Zelda fan and I'll definitely give you that point, Zelda:TP is more linear than previous Zelda's.
I'm not sure if it really detracts from the game though... Zelda:TP has a much stronger storyline than previous incarnations and hence the more strict storyline. As far as "Zelda Moments" go, the bits with Llia in them are right up there for me.
I'm sorry, that was a terribly unclear explanation. Bison parses a text file and generates C given the rules you give it, but the C it generates has to contain some sort of code written by the peoeple who wrote Bison to follow the rules you gave it.
Once again that was unclear... gah. basically, Bison parses text, according to your rules, and outputs C. However if you think about it, at least some (most) of that C has to be pre-written before it can be generated like that, hence, the original C is technically under the GPL, and technically being copied to your output.
Basically it seems you've got 'patents' and 'copyright' confused.. not surprising really, it's a morass.
The GPL is just copyright, it applies to the specific thing you created, if you were to come up with some amazing new compression algorithm and release the code under the GPL, without patenting it, that algorithm could be re-implemented with different code by anyone and they would not have to release their code under the GPL.
The reason for a program like Bison having the output GPL'd, is that Bison actually creates lots of the output using its own code, ie, the Bison output HAS GPL code in it. Fortunately there's the exception which makes this a non-issue.
... I think you have missed the whole point in ANY analogy
Feeding troll I know but ffs..
What is your problem? I never said I was "vexed" with the way mac's work, I don't have a problem with it, it's what they're designed for.
And as for your ridiculous insults, the "dweebs" designed and built your beloved mac mate.
I'm sorry but that is just idiotic.
90% of what I do on a computer is working with text, and blind people have been able to read for a VERY long time.
Hell a significant amount of people on this very site would claim to never do any work outside an xterm.
1.5 applications per employee per week, without taking account of holiday time, employees in admin etc.
Try researching the validity of 1.5 20 page technical documents for a field you have absolutely no expertise in a week.
alas not really a possibility, I am the "data guy" on a testing team, and therefore the queries I run are never the same.
Also, I constantly use the "schema browser" function of the application to look things up. I am a big proponent of using the CLI wherever possible, I learnt perl for that very reason (and it has saved me hours upon hours), but a GUI program really is the best option for me in this case, as much because my knowledge of databases is fairly limited as anything else.
The poster who explained it was a GP, mine was a SPECIFIC counter of the parent poster's claim that a programmer must go to great lengths to disable the "faking" process.
A specific example of a generic problem is always handy.
For anyone interested the program is TOAD for Oracle, AVOID.
Aside from every laptop or ATX power button for the last 10 years you mean?
Throwing around a lot of invectives for someone who thinks timing a button press is innovative...
Prior Art = Piano
You're right of course, and it does work (in a very cluggy and unresponsive kind of way), however they don't have to go to great lengths to stop it. As the GP pointed out, goddamned fucking modal dialogs stop this working.
The SQL client I use at work has a modal dialog box pop up while executing a query, unfortunately because of the size of the data sets I'm working on some of my queries go for hours, the program itself also frequently crashes.
bada bing, without too much effort on the developers part I have an application that takes over my screen all the time.
GP is right, having the client process deal with window messages is right up there with Microsoft's worst bad design decisions.
Yeah, Good luck with that
From the linked article "INFECTION with sexually transmitted HPVs is common -- about 75 per cent of women become infected at some point."
By the way, that's an exceptionally good article on the two HPV vaccines coming to market, and if anything gives a very valid reason why Gardisil should not be a mandatory vaccine. (Although it's competitor maybe should)
The point being that you can use the eavesdropper-aware channel to exchange a key-pair that you KNOW hasn't been intercepted. After that you can use any medium as your safe channel.
I've seen summaries with better understanding of technical topics in my local, small town, tabloid newspaper.
Really what nerd approves a summary like that?
.NET is a documented standard you boob, anyone can write an interpreter for it.
No mod-points so just a "hear hear" from me.
I use perl for the exact same reason you do.
Also, I'm alternating between windows and unix all the time, and interfacing with Oracle db's a lot, two things that perl does VERY well.
But all I'm doing is pushing logs back and forward, parsing them, possibly generating reports on the RI of the db etc.
Oh, and for writing your sql for you, perl is gold for that, ever had to refactor every key in a 100+m row schema? blerch.
You must have read a different article to me, one that makes consumers criminals, the one I read was banning the sale of light bulbs that don't meet an efficiency requirement.
While converting to technologies other than coal, or at least to "clean" coal is obviously the goal, that doesn't make simple and practical savings worthless.
There are massive water shortages across Aus atm, in Victoria billions of litres is lost to an inefficient open-channel irrigation system, but that doesn't mean getting people to use water efficient shower heads isn't a good step.
Anecdotal evidence tells me that so few people in Aus have dimmer switches that it's largely irrelevant.
They were popular for maybe 3 years in the 90s here.
Not in Australia where the story is based it can't..
While I agree with your general argument, it doesn't apply in this situation, your carbon emissions affect everyone, not just you.
FTFS: "They have already developed urine/blood tests to identify at-risk children".
ick, one of the worst comments I've ever read, programmers not lazy? uh, why do you think most of us started writing programs? Because it's better to make the computer do it than do it ourselves.
You've confused lazy with simple, the reason programmers like *nix based OS's is because they can do most ANYTHING quicker than it can be done on Windows, the fact that it's not simple just doesn't worry people whose laziness doesn't extend to learning.
If you're not a technical person, don't bother using linux, you're fighting an uphill battle, it's designed by programmers for programmers.
If you have a look at the article (tiresome I know), this reader is about halfway between folding and rolling.
Also, from what I read this technology still functions at very low differentials, ie 30 degrees celsius, as opposed to the hundreds that just using two metals requires.