Google still returns 0 results for me, Your search - wikiality - did not match any documents. . But a big congratulations go to someone named "Ken" from Chicago for being the first person to utter the word on Usenet.
Useless trivia, I know. I should stop dawdling and finish writing my program already.
Only they can probably write some stupid law that makes that count as an "intent" to conspire terrorism. The politicians certainly got away with that shit in the war on drugs, you think the war on terror will be any different on our civil liberties?
lol I doubt the OP was trolling... I, too, pretty much fit that same description perfectly. And I don't care... I got my degree in computer science and I'm still not in a rush to get a job, despite my parents never shutting up about it. I'll get a job and a social life, when I feel like getting them.
I just want to know one thing and one thing only
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Don't get me wrong, I like the GIMP and its flexibility makes drawing specific things extremely convenient and intuitive for me compared to Photoshop. But the one thing that annoys me about GIMP is its interface in that, in both the Windows and Linux versions, each window takes up a program slot on the taskbar. Not only that, but when you start it up, you can see your desktop. Maximizing the main window doesn't help because it spreads all of its icons across. And maximizing the image window, basically obscures the other GIMP windows. To me, this is bad interface design.
I find it a bit irritating to work like this. If I want to see my tools while working on an image, I have to keep the windows at normal size, which leaves parts of my desktop exposed, and I occasionally accidentally click the icons with my pen and execute programs I don't want to execute (nothing to interrupt your concentration like loading Doom 3 inadvertently while practicing your landscape painting). I DO NOT WANT TO SEE MY DESKTOP OR DESKTOP ICONS WHEN WORKING ON AN IMAGE. Is there a way to get GIMP's interface to behave like or mimic Photoshop's interface more closely in this respect? Yes, I'm aware of peoples' complaints with how Photoshop's interface behaves and the pros and cons and yada yada, but I just so happen to prefer it that way -- I just "flow" better with it.
Unfortunately there's nothing in GIMP's configuration menus that indicate I can do this, but maybe there's some trick I don't know about?
Why is driving over the frogs with a diesel lawnmower not an option? Just put some frog bait in the middle of your lawn and wait in the dark with your John Deere and go for it when enough of them are huddled together. I don't think all that hopping can outrun a mower.
The Discovery Channel's only an actual science channel on 1) The weekends and 2) At most 4 or 5 hours per weekdays. All other times when the sun is up, are shows about home economics. They're trying to catch the daytime housewife audience I guess, but don't soap operas pretty much have a pretty strong hold on that market?
National Geographic has a channel though, and fortunately they haven't (yet) gone down that unfortunate route.
I always suspected the trick to how the boss ship evolves is not based on principles from the AI field but merely the program gathering statistics, for lack of a better word, and using them against you. Of course, the program is closed-source, so as far as I know he could have a Prolog interpreter hidden under there;-)
People writing new internet applications should encrypt all traffic, and make it look like a vpn, ssl or ssh.
Only some ISPs really, really suck about that sort of stuff and threaten to cancel your account if they suspect you using any of those services on your own machine. Comcast cable internet is one such example that immediately comes to mind, it's even explicitly disallowed in their terms of use.
There is just deeply disfunctional management and culture when a $N million dollar project "just so happens" to have boobies on the disk.
There is just deeply disfunctional societal culture when artists are expected, by prudes, to "conveniently" forget that women have "boobies" when they illustrate them.
I take it the giant anus on the horse models is still OK, though? Really, if I had to choose one or the other, I'd keep the boobies over the horse anus... although I can't speak for the Moral Minority and Nanny Government types who tend to bitch about these things in the first place, they seem to spend a bit too much time on their ranches and farms.
I'd rather have a guy who majored in philosophy who has a collection of vintage C-64 hardware then some Java turd who got cranked out by the state U.
Other than the philosophy major part, I agree with you and was going to make a similar post. One annoying factor I've noticed in my time in university is that they spend very little time, if any, on the classic languages. Instead of learning old fashioned C, you are given assignments to do in Java and C# -- even C++ gets a bad rap from many pointy-headed academics in my university. I'm not saying Java and C# are bad languages, I'm saying it'd be more pragmatic to take baby-steps on the syntactically-lighter C before delving into Java and C# which have more syntactic complications. That, and C forces you to consider how the computer's architecture behaves -- ie, buffer overflows when you're not careful with arrays.
The AI course I'm taking is only briefly touching upon Prolog -- which I get the impression that nobody except mathematician types use (I am nowhere near what you might call a "mathematician") -- with only occasional, yet rude dismissive mentions of LISP -- the course is otherwise way too heavy on theory without any application of such theory. Then again, professors seem to shy away from anything that even remotely suggests programming a -- gasp! -- videogame (where else can you program and learn AI that doesn't involve a government contract?), even if it were to be based on a classic board game like Chess. No, no, everything must be taught in the "program an algorithm for the sake of programming an algorithm", so that I may conveniently forget about it when the semester ends.
And assembly? Not even in the embedded systems course (although, despite that, the course's material is -- FINALLY -- something related to what one might encounter in the job world). The only course I've ever taken, remotely similar to teaching assembly language, has been a course using a fake, fictional machine called Pep/7 -- all I can say is that if such a machine existed, even RISC enthusiasts would have said "damn, bro, put some more instructions on that chip". Where is the fun in learning assembly if there's no risk in hanging your machine and having to reboot when fucking up something you shouldn't have done? I doubt any ASM guru would tell you they never, ever hanged their computer when they were novices. More substantially, where is the fun in learning assembly if you're not learning a non-fictitious instruction set so that you may have something meaningful on your resume? Perhaps I'm naive in assuming that's what college education is supposed to be all about.
Tenure is also a bad thing in computer science. I've had three-too-many old professors whose minds have climbed to the peak of Mt. Senile, way out of their league in today's world of technology, who should have retired when the Internet bloomed -- and they just won't go away. Yeah, call me a cold-hearted bastard, but in any other field of work, if you can't perform your job, you're fired.
I learned this a long, long time ago when Charlotte, NC had a public-funded "ISP", Charlotte's Web, and my parents wouldn't pay for -real- Internet access after a prominent local ISP there was overrun by hackers and credit card stealers, and caved in on itself.
Long story short, Charlotte's Web admins ttysnoop'd people randomly and the admins had no qualms looking at anyone and everyone's residual/tmp files.
I had my account terminated for downloading artwork by Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo -- not because it was a copyright infringement (lol and it likely was and still is), but because their art is, in the words of the jackass working there who I talked to on the phone, "pornography". That was so asinine I couldn't even think up a sarcastic-enough reply in time.
In order to crack your wireless network's WEP key (which I understand is easy to do over a course of an hour or two, considering how weak that encryption is) does someone have to also know your router's SSID in advance, or do they just need a radio signal to incercept and nothing else? I live in an apartment with my parents, and since HomePNA products are no longer on the market, wireless is the only other way we can get multiple computers in different rooms on the same network that doesn't involve drilling holes in walls or running a cable through three different rooms. But living in apartments with crowded residences and who-knows-who living here in all directions, concerns me a bit. I took every other security measure (limiting network logins to just specific MAC addresses, for example), but I still worry that the weak encryption and the fact that packets still just 'fly' out in the open could be the Achilles' Heel of every WiFi network that no other precaution can really mitigate.
I've considered using IPv6 internally on my home network, as I understand that has built-in encryption via IPsec and is probably not quite as easy to crack as WEP, so even if someone intercepts my home network's packets from the aether, they'd still see yet another layer of encryption.
Article didn't mention the glitch
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The article didn't mention what glitch it was, but if it was the one where the bandit never shows up... try going toward the boundary of that country (don't remember its name, but it wasn't far from the ruins where you're supposed to ambush him -- and it was a general area I saw other named bandits walk from). I found him stuck between a couple of trees, pacing errantly back and forth until he saw me and attacked.
As for Mazoga, I always figured she was probably a lesbian.
But, speaking as an overworked graduate student in CS who once floated through K-12, I can say I don't have time for these "revolutions" in the game industry. Katamari Damacy is the only console game I've played in a long while that I actually loved, and part of that was because I could play for 20 minutes (make the moon!) and get a healthy dose of fun and entertainment (ah, the screams of people trapped in their office buildings...) and then put the game down and get back to work.
Struggling with 2 hours of your PS2 saying "Disc Read Error" until it finally, luckily, reads and boots up the game notwithstanding.
"One naturally considers the source of research when considering what is being argued."
From what I've seen, political arguments would be much more civil if people argued ONLY based on the merits of the arguments themselves, rather than WHO is making the argument, or even WHY the argument is being made. When you don't resist the temptation to make guesses of ulterior motives, that's opening up a can of worms for ad hominem attacks and other fallacies. And this happens every single time, and this kind of ubiquitous obnoxiousness is what makes politics in general a fucking chore.
I was always under the impression that UML's biggest purpose is not the design of a project, but rather so programmers can more easily communicate concepts of a project's architecture to the dummies at the same company who don't know anything about programming or design. Marketers, for example.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've certainly had no need to use UML in any of my projects.
Heh I thought this was a relatively new misspelling, Internet-recent I mean. Then I opened up my lyrics booklet for Pink Floyd's "Animals". I wonder just how far back "loose" as "lose" goes?
Aren't "partial downloads" prior art as far back as, oh, the era of the floppy disk? Back when warez wasn't distributed as ISOs but as dozens or hundreds of 1.44MB fragmented compressed files? I even remember downloading Slackware like that back in 1994/1995. What exactly is "new" about this to warrant a patent?
So I'm guessing these depressed hamsters are being used in testing black lipstick and black eyeliner? Allergies from pewter ankh necklaces? Tolerance to high decibel levels of Joy Division? What?
Was it really a coincidence? In any other case I would have cited the old game they teach in Statistics courses about common birthdays among 30 or more people in a room, but wasn't this the worm that sends e-mails to people which contain links to German neo-Nazi websites?
The only difference I've seen is kids overuse the word "fascist", while adults go straight to Godwin's Law and use the nazis for their cliched hyperbole.
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Google still returns 0 results for me, Your search - wikiality - did not match any documents. . But a big congratulations go to someone named "Ken" from Chicago for being the first person to utter the word on Usenet.
Useless trivia, I know. I should stop dawdling and finish writing my program already.
Only they can probably write some stupid law that makes that count as an "intent" to conspire terrorism. The politicians certainly got away with that shit in the war on drugs, you think the war on terror will be any different on our civil liberties?
lol I doubt the OP was trolling... I, too, pretty much fit that same description perfectly. And I don't care... I got my degree in computer science and I'm still not in a rush to get a job, despite my parents never shutting up about it. I'll get a job and a social life, when I feel like getting them.
Don't get me wrong, I like the GIMP and its flexibility makes drawing specific things extremely convenient and intuitive for me compared to Photoshop. But the one thing that annoys me about GIMP is its interface in that, in both the Windows and Linux versions, each window takes up a program slot on the taskbar. Not only that, but when you start it up, you can see your desktop. Maximizing the main window doesn't help because it spreads all of its icons across. And maximizing the image window, basically obscures the other GIMP windows. To me, this is bad interface design.
I find it a bit irritating to work like this. If I want to see my tools while working on an image, I have to keep the windows at normal size, which leaves parts of my desktop exposed, and I occasionally accidentally click the icons with my pen and execute programs I don't want to execute (nothing to interrupt your concentration like loading Doom 3 inadvertently while practicing your landscape painting). I DO NOT WANT TO SEE MY DESKTOP OR DESKTOP ICONS WHEN WORKING ON AN IMAGE. Is there a way to get GIMP's interface to behave like or mimic Photoshop's interface more closely in this respect? Yes, I'm aware of peoples' complaints with how Photoshop's interface behaves and the pros and cons and yada yada, but I just so happen to prefer it that way -- I just "flow" better with it.
Unfortunately there's nothing in GIMP's configuration menus that indicate I can do this, but maybe there's some trick I don't know about?
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Why is driving over the frogs with a diesel lawnmower not an option? Just put some frog bait in the middle of your lawn and wait in the dark with your John Deere and go for it when enough of them are huddled together. I don't think all that hopping can outrun a mower.
The Discovery Channel's only an actual science channel on 1) The weekends and 2) At most 4 or 5 hours per weekdays. All other times when the sun is up, are shows about home economics. They're trying to catch the daytime housewife audience I guess, but don't soap operas pretty much have a pretty strong hold on that market?
National Geographic has a channel though, and fortunately they haven't (yet) gone down that unfortunate route.
I always suspected the trick to how the boss ship evolves is not based on principles from the AI field but merely the program gathering statistics, for lack of a better word, and using them against you. Of course, the program is closed-source, so as far as I know he could have a Prolog interpreter hidden under there ;-)
People writing new internet applications should encrypt all traffic, and make it look like a vpn, ssl or ssh.
Only some ISPs really, really suck about that sort of stuff and threaten to cancel your account if they suspect you using any of those services on your own machine. Comcast cable internet is one such example that immediately comes to mind, it's even explicitly disallowed in their terms of use.
There is just deeply disfunctional management and culture when a $N million dollar project "just so happens" to have boobies on the disk.
There is just deeply disfunctional societal culture when artists are expected, by prudes, to "conveniently" forget that women have "boobies" when they illustrate them.
I take it the giant anus on the horse models is still OK, though? Really, if I had to choose one or the other, I'd keep the boobies over the horse anus... although I can't speak for the Moral Minority and Nanny Government types who tend to bitch about these things in the first place, they seem to spend a bit too much time on their ranches and farms.
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I'd rather have a guy who majored in philosophy who has a collection of vintage C-64 hardware then some Java turd who got cranked out by the state U.
Other than the philosophy major part, I agree with you and was going to make a similar post. One annoying factor I've noticed in my time in university is that they spend very little time, if any, on the classic languages. Instead of learning old fashioned C, you are given assignments to do in Java and C# -- even C++ gets a bad rap from many pointy-headed academics in my university. I'm not saying Java and C# are bad languages, I'm saying it'd be more pragmatic to take baby-steps on the syntactically-lighter C before delving into Java and C# which have more syntactic complications. That, and C forces you to consider how the computer's architecture behaves -- ie, buffer overflows when you're not careful with arrays.
The AI course I'm taking is only briefly touching upon Prolog -- which I get the impression that nobody except mathematician types use (I am nowhere near what you might call a "mathematician") -- with only occasional, yet rude dismissive mentions of LISP -- the course is otherwise way too heavy on theory without any application of such theory. Then again, professors seem to shy away from anything that even remotely suggests programming a -- gasp! -- videogame (where else can you program and learn AI that doesn't involve a government contract?), even if it were to be based on a classic board game like Chess. No, no, everything must be taught in the "program an algorithm for the sake of programming an algorithm", so that I may conveniently forget about it when the semester ends.
And assembly? Not even in the embedded systems course (although, despite that, the course's material is -- FINALLY -- something related to what one might encounter in the job world). The only course I've ever taken, remotely similar to teaching assembly language, has been a course using a fake, fictional machine called Pep/7 -- all I can say is that if such a machine existed, even RISC enthusiasts would have said "damn, bro, put some more instructions on that chip". Where is the fun in learning assembly if there's no risk in hanging your machine and having to reboot when fucking up something you shouldn't have done? I doubt any ASM guru would tell you they never, ever hanged their computer when they were novices. More substantially, where is the fun in learning assembly if you're not learning a non-fictitious instruction set so that you may have something meaningful on your resume? Perhaps I'm naive in assuming that's what college education is supposed to be all about.
Tenure is also a bad thing in computer science. I've had three-too-many old professors whose minds have climbed to the peak of Mt. Senile, way out of their league in today's world of technology, who should have retired when the Internet bloomed -- and they just won't go away. Yeah, call me a cold-hearted bastard, but in any other field of work, if you can't perform your job, you're fired.
I learned this a long, long time ago when Charlotte, NC had a public-funded "ISP", Charlotte's Web, and my parents wouldn't pay for -real- Internet access after a prominent local ISP there was overrun by hackers and credit card stealers, and caved in on itself.
/tmp files.
Long story short, Charlotte's Web admins ttysnoop'd people randomly and the admins had no qualms looking at anyone and everyone's residual
I had my account terminated for downloading artwork by Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo -- not because it was a copyright infringement (lol and it likely was and still is), but because their art is, in the words of the jackass working there who I talked to on the phone, "pornography". That was so asinine I couldn't even think up a sarcastic-enough reply in time.
In order to crack your wireless network's WEP key (which I understand is easy to do over a course of an hour or two, considering how weak that encryption is) does someone have to also know your router's SSID in advance, or do they just need a radio signal to incercept and nothing else? I live in an apartment with my parents, and since HomePNA products are no longer on the market, wireless is the only other way we can get multiple computers in different rooms on the same network that doesn't involve drilling holes in walls or running a cable through three different rooms. But living in apartments with crowded residences and who-knows-who living here in all directions, concerns me a bit. I took every other security measure (limiting network logins to just specific MAC addresses, for example), but I still worry that the weak encryption and the fact that packets still just 'fly' out in the open could be the Achilles' Heel of every WiFi network that no other precaution can really mitigate.
I've considered using IPv6 internally on my home network, as I understand that has built-in encryption via IPsec and is probably not quite as easy to crack as WEP, so even if someone intercepts my home network's packets from the aether, they'd still see yet another layer of encryption.
The article didn't mention what glitch it was, but if it was the one where the bandit never shows up... try going toward the boundary of that country (don't remember its name, but it wasn't far from the ruins where you're supposed to ambush him -- and it was a general area I saw other named bandits walk from). I found him stuck between a couple of trees, pacing errantly back and forth until he saw me and attacked.
As for Mazoga, I always figured she was probably a lesbian.
But, speaking as an overworked graduate student in CS who once floated through K-12, I can say I don't have time for these "revolutions" in the game industry. Katamari Damacy is the only console game I've played in a long while that I actually loved, and part of that was because I could play for 20 minutes (make the moon!) and get a healthy dose of fun and entertainment (ah, the screams of people trapped in their office buildings...) and then put the game down and get back to work.
Struggling with 2 hours of your PS2 saying "Disc Read Error" until it finally, luckily, reads and boots up the game notwithstanding.
Does this also apply to the version of SMB2j ("Lost Levels") found on the Super Mario All-Stars SNES collection?
"One naturally considers the source of research when considering what is being argued."
From what I've seen, political arguments would be much more civil if people argued ONLY based on the merits of the arguments themselves, rather than WHO is making the argument, or even WHY the argument is being made. When you don't resist the temptation to make guesses of ulterior motives, that's opening up a can of worms for ad hominem attacks and other fallacies. And this happens every single time, and this kind of ubiquitous obnoxiousness is what makes politics in general a fucking chore.
I was always under the impression that UML's biggest purpose is not the design of a project, but rather so programmers can more easily communicate concepts of a project's architecture to the dummies at the same company who don't know anything about programming or design. Marketers, for example.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've certainly had no need to use UML in any of my projects.
Heh I thought this was a relatively new misspelling, Internet-recent I mean. Then I opened up my lyrics booklet for Pink Floyd's "Animals". I wonder just how far back "loose" as "lose" goes?
Aren't "partial downloads" prior art as far back as, oh, the era of the floppy disk? Back when warez wasn't distributed as ISOs but as dozens or hundreds of 1.44MB fragmented compressed files? I even remember downloading Slackware like that back in 1994/1995. What exactly is "new" about this to warrant a patent?
shyster Audio pronunciation of "shyster" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (shstr)
n. Slang
An unethical, unscrupulous practitioner, especially of law.
Looks like it has less to do with "Jewish racial slurs" than it has to do with parasitic individuals like Jack Thompson.
So I'm guessing these depressed hamsters are being used in testing black lipstick and black eyeliner? Allergies from pewter ankh necklaces? Tolerance to high decibel levels of Joy Division? What?
Was it really a coincidence? In any other case I would have cited the old game they teach in Statistics courses about common birthdays among 30 or more people in a room, but wasn't this the worm that sends e-mails to people which contain links to German neo-Nazi websites?
The only difference I've seen is kids overuse the word "fascist", while adults go straight to Godwin's Law and use the nazis for their cliched hyperbole.