To "wet your whistle" is to moisten your dry mouth (not necessarily to slake your thirst--wetting your whistle doesn't go that far), and has nothing to do with making someone eager for anything... but maybe the author was thinking of something like
Actually it refers to litrally blowing on a whistle embedded into a beer mug to alert the waitress that you need a refill. Similar in style to modern day snapping your fingers for service. Perhaps rude today, but commonplace earlier in history.
So where would *BSD fall in. Along with Linux because of the clueless people rebooting it because they don't understand/etc/init.d, or along with UNIX because (I'm linux user myself) BSD users actually do seem a bit on the more experianced side of the fence.
Whats worth noting though is that google supplied a link to the notice given to them asking for the censorship. In that notice there is a list of sites that were asked to be censored. Thus, to get to the 'cesored' results, can just browse to that link and go to the 'censored' sites from there. This just increses the difficulty to get to the sites you want by one page of re-direction.
I would highly reccommend any one that even begins to contemplate using ajax in their web app to check out the Dojo Toolkit and it's IO::Bind functionality. It transparently handles back/forward functionality and deals with bookmarkability quite well as long as you use it correctly. For small AJAX tricks like google suggest-esq autocomplete, this is a moot point, but if you are writing a serious web app that relies on asyncronous communication with the server, you need to deal with these issues.
Yes there are smoothing groups, although as per the blender philosphy, it is hard to figure out how to do it. One has to select the verts (or side, or faces) of the group and turn it into a material group. From there, you can assign in a unique texture, have it be automatically be made into a seam group for LCMS unwrap and UV texturing, and set it as a smothed group, amongst other different nifty things.
Heh. the funny thing about that is that such things have been tried in the past. problem is trying to find a television station or radio station to air it.
If you approach a station with such a thing, they will nicely turn you down saying "sorry. it isn't our policy to air anti-corperate ad's when those corperations pay us money to advertise for them, or have to potential to advertise with us in the future."
Yeah... Just did another google and it did not show up for me.
hmm. Just curious, but is this the first slashdot story covering a google ad? I wonder if there is a precident for google to immediatly take down the ad if suddenly hundreds of thousands geeks start plowing their way into it.:)
umm... us canadians have absolutly no decent military to speak of... the Danish would kick our ass if we actually tried to fight over this probably.
so yeah. lets just do what we did before and draw a line down the center, eh?
I can confirm that the ad does show up. the link goes to here.
What I feel bad about is the fact that these ads were placed by citizens of their respective countries. Now that slashdot will be battering the click-through into oblivion... at $.05 a click...
Actually. I would love these shoes if it could be hacked to do the reverse of the intended purpose. It would be cool that whenver you stopped moving and sat down in the proximity of the TV it would automatically come on, and when you got up, it would go off.
...Would really anger your friends though watching TV with you when the movie your watching dies when you get up to get some sweet sweet chips & dip.
Just curious, but what advantage would this bring? if you are trying to thwart the RIAA/MPAA, I'm not sure how having a bundled sack of torrents inside a torrent will help matters. there still has to be a centralized tracker that can be tracked, and therefore shut down. that goes for both the 'package torrent' and all the torrents contained within.
Before someone figures out the protocols and writes a OSS clone of this program with the same functionality, sans adware. Any ambitious developers out there should 'acquire' themselves a copy of the beta and get a head start.
I personally think that that would be a great idea. Screw 'hunting' animals, I want some people to shoot at! Imo, it would be an excellent challange to add to the poeple playing paintball, and a great form of stress relief for the rest of us!
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but that would be something closley resembeling work... and we don't want that now... do we? a simple phunny pun and a free invite? who loses but good use of language!
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assuming this is zoloto, i sent a e-mail to you with my current decrepid e-mail.
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so.. desperate.. for gmail.... need gmail...
I'm not a stable boy but every morning, I wake up a horse's ass.
google so good. all my other search engines have run out of gas.
excellent, I cannot wait to hear that sad, somber, and slightly funny moment where poor sweet Marvin goes to the cliff, and fragment by fragment discovers that he and god think the same way. And then, shortly after seeing that great last message that god left to his creation. passing on in what dignity he could muster, considering that every piece of machinery in him had been replaced several times over... (with the exception of that damn set of diodes on his left side:) )
The amazing ending of The Longest Journey may have likaly changed my life, and as an exception to many of the other games listed here... I think for the better.
Anyone that has played through this amazing adventure game with wonderful graphics and excellent voice acting will understand exactly what I am talking about.
All I can ever hope for now that will ever top the experiance that that game brought to me will be a sequal. Plz funcom?
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but, dude.. Like i said in the prev post, I'm use teh Linux stuff. Damn Spelling/Grammer Nazi's
So where would *BSD fall in. Along with Linux because of the clueless people rebooting it because they don't understand /etc/init.d, or along with UNIX because (I'm linux user myself) BSD users actually do seem a bit on the more experianced side of the fence.
Whats worth noting though is that google supplied a link to the notice given to them asking for the censorship. In that notice there is a list of sites that were asked to be censored. Thus, to get to the 'cesored' results, can just browse to that link and go to the 'censored' sites from there. This just increses the difficulty to get to the sites you want by one page of re-direction.
I would highly reccommend any one that even begins to contemplate using ajax in their web app to check out the Dojo Toolkit and it's IO::Bind functionality. It transparently handles back/forward functionality and deals with bookmarkability quite well as long as you use it correctly. For small AJAX tricks like google suggest-esq autocomplete, this is a moot point, but if you are writing a serious web app that relies on asyncronous communication with the server, you need to deal with these issues.
Yes there are smoothing groups, although as per the blender philosphy, it is hard to figure out how to do it. One has to select the verts (or side, or faces) of the group and turn it into a material group. From there, you can assign in a unique texture, have it be automatically be made into a seam group for LCMS unwrap and UV texturing, and set it as a smothed group, amongst other different nifty things.
Heh. the funny thing about that is that such things have been tried in the past. problem is trying to find a television station or radio station to air it.
If you approach a station with such a thing, they will nicely turn you down saying "sorry. it isn't our policy to air anti-corperate ad's when those corperations pay us money to advertise for them, or have to potential to advertise with us in the future."
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Yeah... Just did another google and it did not show up for me. hmm. Just curious, but is this the first slashdot story covering a google ad? I wonder if there is a precident for google to immediatly take down the ad if suddenly hundreds of thousands geeks start plowing their way into it. :)
umm... us canadians have absolutly no decent military to speak of... the Danish would kick our ass if we actually tried to fight over this probably. so yeah. lets just do what we did before and draw a line down the center, eh?
I can confirm that the ad does show up. the link goes to here.
What I feel bad about is the fact that these ads were placed by citizens of their respective countries. Now that slashdot will be battering the click-through into oblivion... at $.05 a click...
might get mighty expensive...
Actually. I would love these shoes if it could be hacked to do the reverse of the intended purpose. It would be cool that whenver you stopped moving and sat down in the proximity of the TV it would automatically come on, and when you got up, it would go off.
...Would really anger your friends though watching TV with you when the movie your watching dies when you get up to get some sweet sweet chips & dip.
Just curious, but what advantage would this bring? if you are trying to thwart the RIAA/MPAA, I'm not sure how having a bundled sack of torrents inside a torrent will help matters. there still has to be a centralized tracker that can be tracked, and therefore shut down. that goes for both the 'package torrent' and all the torrents contained within.
Before someone figures out the protocols and writes a OSS clone of this program with the same functionality, sans adware. Any ambitious developers out there should 'acquire' themselves a copy of the beta and get a head start.
I personally think that that would be a great idea. Screw 'hunting' animals, I want some people to shoot at! Imo, it would be an excellent challange to add to the poeple playing paintball, and a great form of stress relief for the rest of us!
but that would be something closley resembeling work... and we don't want that now... do we? a simple phunny pun and a free invite? who loses but good use of language!
assuming this is zoloto, i sent a e-mail to you with my current decrepid e-mail.
so.. desperate.. for gmail.... need gmail...
I'm not a stable boy but every morning,
I wake up a horse's ass.
google so good. all my other search engines
have run out of gas.
excellent, I cannot wait to hear that sad, somber, and slightly funny moment where poor sweet Marvin goes to the cliff, and fragment by fragment discovers that he and god think the same way. And then, shortly after seeing that great last message that god left to his creation. passing on in what dignity he could muster, considering that every piece of machinery in him had been replaced several times over... (with the exception of that damn set of diodes on his left side :) )
The amazing ending of The Longest Journey may have likaly changed my life, and as an exception to many of the other games listed here... I think for the better.
Anyone that has played through this amazing adventure game with wonderful graphics and excellent voice acting will understand exactly what I am talking about.
All I can ever hope for now that will ever top the experiance that that game brought to me will be a sequal. Plz funcom?