"nova" actually isn't a word in Spanish (although novate/novase is a reflexive verb that is probably never used)
My copy of the Diccionario esencial de la lengua española, published by the Real Academia Española, lists
novaAstr. estrella nova novarDer. Sustituir con una obligación otra otorgada anteriormente, la cual queda anulada en este acto.
So there's the class of stars, and a legal term to do with substituting obligations.
There are a few other words starting nova-, but I can't find a verb novarse, noverse or novirse - nóvate and nóvase can't be imperatives of the same verb.
PS I would have used definition lists, but the/. support for them seems to be broken to bits.
You must be new here. When you have a comment, you search for the highest post you can sensibly reply to, to maximise visibility. As in so many aspects of/., cynicism rules.
It is. So it's a stupid name for the project, because it makes it harder to search for it. When will people learn that unique names make you easier to find?
So just to get this straight: science always lives up to the ideals of the best of scientists, while religions all conform to the practices of the worst practitioners?
the jar would be considered to be "from" the images.somesocialsite.com which would put it in the proper zone to be able to read *.somesocialsite.com cookies.
This is slightly more subtle than it seems. Sure, you can get document.cookie via JSObject, but how do you get cookies for another domain?
I've done it with cat and had zero problems unzipping it. I've also done it today with a.gif and a.jar containing an applet and had the applet run. Try it yourself.
In terms of creating something which is both a gif and a jar, it's a simple case of cat myimg.gif myapplet.jar. The fact that you can cat a gif and a zip file and get something which conforms to both specifications has been known for years. The interesting bit will be the way they turn the Facebook img tag into an applet tag or otherwise persuade the browser to execute the applet.
Since leveling and resource acquisition in WoW is a matter of time expenditure - by design, mind you - why does it matter whether or not a player puts in that time, or a bot does?
You recognise that time sinks exist by design. If the game designer didn't care about the player having to spend hours in front of the game, it wouldn't have time sinks. So why have you not stopped to ask yourself why they exist?
Inherent in being a MMORPG is that your character's skills improve. There are three basic ways of doing this: a) the character improves over time no matter what you do; b) the character improves as you spend more money; or c) the character improves as you spend time playing. Of these c) makes most sense. a) means that I can never overtake someone who started before me. b) is rather a bad way to get lots of people playing the game, because many people will view it as unfair.
Given that time spent playing determines your level, what the game designer is essentially asking you to do is convert one resource (your time) into another resource (your level). Often this goes via an intermediate resource (your gold). To use a bot is to replace the base resource with another one (your computer's time), and will interfere with the in-game economy. You're taking a game designed around option c) and forcing it into the mould of option a). Similarly, gold farming is pushing for option b). If you prefer option a) or b) then play a game designed for it, whose economy takes it into account.
I'm sure the gyroscopic effects do increase the trajectory calculation complexity, but they probably also increase the range. That would make them a Good Thing and worth the extra CPU power required.
Leaving the one-sided-ness or not of the treaty aside - that's already been discussed to death - there is the issue that McKinnon could be tried in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. I believe it's fair to say that typically the UK doesn't extradite people for charges it could try domestically.
Why do I fear the answer will be "It's true it is against the 4th Amendment. However the U.S. Constitution is pretty much a piece of ass wipe your elected officials use daily anymore."
Because you're not Rip van Winkle, and thus haven't been asleep for the past n years?
It would be more accurate to say that Facebook is already sort-of mainly translated into many languages. I use it in Spanish, and at times the mistakes are painful.
To pre-empt those who want to point out that it's Web 2.0 and I should get involved, I have. I've installed the translation module, translated a couple of phrases, and voted on a lot more. But it's not infrequent that when I find a mistranslated phrase the translation module claims not to know anything about it.
After I left my LG on the charger for a fortnight (I was travelling and I took my other phone, but I didn't want to turn it off and lose information about who tried to call me), the battery would go from full to flat in a few hours. I put the battery in the freezer for a few hours and it's as good as new.
Trying to squeeze more content into a set page limit is one constraint which is hard to work to: the one which I had problems with when I used LaTeX for essays was working to a word count. There is no accurate way of counting the words in a LaTeX document short of writing a script to strip out the formatting so that you can pass it to wc.
In the summer before I went up to Cambridge University to read CS, I went to my local university's library to work through the "required reading". I didn't learn much, but I did the exercises as suggested. When I arrived I discovered that no-one was at all interested in whether I'd done the reading or in marking the exercises I'd done.
That's not to say that I never used books. I still have the one book I bought which was actually useful: Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik, which inspired my dissertation project.
The UK is taking the nanny state approach to extremes. You can smoke in the open air and in private homes and cars. This week a man was fined for smoking in his own van because he uses it for work.
Having said that, it does raise a point you haven't addressed, which is that smoking in restaurants is a far greater problem for the waiters than for the other customers. You could say, "Well, they should get another job," but that's not very realistic: how many waiters are doing it because they want to, and how many because they can't find anything better? It has terrible hours and terrible pay.
Depends. There are a lot of words in the article, but few figures, which makes the meaning of the key phrases ambiguous. Does "no gender difference in scores" mean simply that the hypothesis that the mean score is the same can be maintained at a reasonable confidence interval? Or did they also analyse the standard deviations? I can well believe that the mean scores are the same but that the boys have more outliers. In that case, to say that boys are better than girls at maths or to say that they aren't is a subjective choice.
When I was young, we used RCS and we liked it! As the state of the art changes, so do the requirements to stay at the top. It's possible that SVN 1.5 qualifies as real version control by modern standards - I'll find out when it reaches my somewhat conservative distro - but previous versions have poor support for merging.
I'm also rather unhappy at SVN this week because it managed to get itself in a horribly confused state in which it told me I needed to run svn cleanup to fix some locks, but running svn cleanup just got me an error message saying that I needed to run svn cleanup to fix the locks. I ended up having to delete and do a clean checkout, and was not impressed.
As to the accusations of Linus fanboydom (yours is the second), the only reason I mentioned git is that I used it in my previous job and it worked well. I could equally have said Mercurial or BitKeeper, but since I have no experience with those I can't really recommend them.
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"nova" actually isn't a word in Spanish (although novate/novase is a reflexive verb that is probably never used)
My copy of the Diccionario esencial de la lengua española, published by the Real Academia Española, lists
nova Astr. estrella nova
novar Der. Sustituir con una obligación otra otorgada anteriormente, la cual queda anulada en este acto.
So there's the class of stars, and a legal term to do with substituting obligations.
There are a few other words starting nova-, but I can't find a verb novarse, noverse or novirse - nóvate and nóvase can't be imperatives of the same verb.
PS I would have used definition lists, but the /. support for them seems to be broken to bits.
You must be new here. When you have a comment, you search for the highest post you can sensibly reply to, to maximise visibility. As in so many aspects of /., cynicism rules.
It is. So it's a stupid name for the project, because it makes it harder to search for it. When will people learn that unique names make you easier to find?
So just to get this straight: science always lives up to the ideals of the best of scientists, while religions all conform to the practices of the worst practitioners?
the jar would be considered to be "from" the images.somesocialsite.com which would put it in the proper zone to be able to read *.somesocialsite.com cookies.
This is slightly more subtle than it seems. Sure, you can get document.cookie via JSObject, but how do you get cookies for another domain?
I've done it with cat and had zero problems unzipping it. I've also done it today with a .gif and a .jar containing an applet and had the applet run. Try it yourself.
In terms of creating something which is both a gif and a jar, it's a simple case of cat myimg.gif myapplet.jar. The fact that you can cat a gif and a zip file and get something which conforms to both specifications has been known for years. The interesting bit will be the way they turn the Facebook img tag into an applet tag or otherwise persuade the browser to execute the applet.
Since leveling and resource acquisition in WoW is a matter of time expenditure - by design, mind you - why does it matter whether or not a player puts in that time, or a bot does?
You recognise that time sinks exist by design. If the game designer didn't care about the player having to spend hours in front of the game, it wouldn't have time sinks. So why have you not stopped to ask yourself why they exist?
Inherent in being a MMORPG is that your character's skills improve. There are three basic ways of doing this: a) the character improves over time no matter what you do; b) the character improves as you spend more money; or c) the character improves as you spend time playing. Of these c) makes most sense. a) means that I can never overtake someone who started before me. b) is rather a bad way to get lots of people playing the game, because many people will view it as unfair.
Given that time spent playing determines your level, what the game designer is essentially asking you to do is convert one resource (your time) into another resource (your level). Often this goes via an intermediate resource (your gold). To use a bot is to replace the base resource with another one (your computer's time), and will interfere with the in-game economy. You're taking a game designed around option c) and forcing it into the mould of option a). Similarly, gold farming is pushing for option b). If you prefer option a) or b) then play a game designed for it, whose economy takes it into account.
Why should I pay for your paper?
I shall make a point of not reading late Poet Laureate John Betjeman's "Slough" in an airport.
I'm sure the gyroscopic effects do increase the trajectory calculation complexity, but they probably also increase the range. That would make them a Good Thing and worth the extra CPU power required.
Leaving the one-sided-ness or not of the treaty aside - that's already been discussed to death - there is the issue that McKinnon could be tried in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. I believe it's fair to say that typically the UK doesn't extradite people for charges it could try domestically.
OTOH, all of the people sued so far by the RIAA have in common that they fall within the jurisdiction of the USA.
Why do I fear the answer will be "It's true it is against the 4th Amendment. However the U.S. Constitution is pretty much a piece of ass wipe your elected officials use daily anymore."
Because you're not Rip van Winkle, and thus haven't been asleep for the past n years?
I interpreted GP as saying that developers aren't professional GUI designers. In the majority of cases this is true.
I bet the person who modded you Funny didn't look at the useit site, or that would have been Insightful.
It would be more accurate to say that Facebook is already sort-of mainly translated into many languages. I use it in Spanish, and at times the mistakes are painful.
To pre-empt those who want to point out that it's Web 2.0 and I should get involved, I have. I've installed the translation module, translated a couple of phrases, and voted on a lot more. But it's not infrequent that when I find a mistranslated phrase the translation module claims not to know anything about it.
I'm pretty sure that's an official variant mentioned by the rules which come with Hasbro's physical product.
After I left my LG on the charger for a fortnight (I was travelling and I took my other phone, but I didn't want to turn it off and lose information about who tried to call me), the battery would go from full to flat in a few hours. I put the battery in the freezer for a few hours and it's as good as new.
Trying to squeeze more content into a set page limit is one constraint which is hard to work to: the one which I had problems with when I used LaTeX for essays was working to a word count. There is no accurate way of counting the words in a LaTeX document short of writing a script to strip out the formatting so that you can pass it to wc.
That's 5 more than I ever got, even when I metamodded every day.
In the summer before I went up to Cambridge University to read CS, I went to my local university's library to work through the "required reading". I didn't learn much, but I did the exercises as suggested. When I arrived I discovered that no-one was at all interested in whether I'd done the reading or in marking the exercises I'd done.
That's not to say that I never used books. I still have the one book I bought which was actually useful: Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik, which inspired my dissertation project.
The UK is taking the nanny state approach to extremes. You can smoke in the open air and in private homes and cars. This week a man was fined for smoking in his own van because he uses it for work.
Having said that, it does raise a point you haven't addressed, which is that smoking in restaurants is a far greater problem for the waiters than for the other customers. You could say, "Well, they should get another job," but that's not very realistic: how many waiters are doing it because they want to, and how many because they can't find anything better? It has terrible hours and terrible pay.
Depends. There are a lot of words in the article, but few figures, which makes the meaning of the key phrases ambiguous. Does "no gender difference in scores" mean simply that the hypothesis that the mean score is the same can be maintained at a reasonable confidence interval? Or did they also analyse the standard deviations? I can well believe that the mean scores are the same but that the boys have more outliers. In that case, to say that boys are better than girls at maths or to say that they aren't is a subjective choice.
When I was young, we used RCS and we liked it! As the state of the art changes, so do the requirements to stay at the top. It's possible that SVN 1.5 qualifies as real version control by modern standards - I'll find out when it reaches my somewhat conservative distro - but previous versions have poor support for merging.
I'm also rather unhappy at SVN this week because it managed to get itself in a horribly confused state in which it told me I needed to run svn cleanup to fix some locks, but running svn cleanup just got me an error message saying that I needed to run svn cleanup to fix the locks. I ended up having to delete and do a clean checkout, and was not impressed.
As to the accusations of Linus fanboydom (yours is the second), the only reason I mentioned git is that I used it in my previous job and it worked well. I could equally have said Mercurial or BitKeeper, but since I have no experience with those I can't really recommend them.