Just tell him that coding a linked list will give him 200 exp points.
More to the point, coding a game protocol exploit could give him 200 MILLION GENUINE AMERICAN exp points. Or his account revoked. Either way, the parent wins.
I reached the Wikipedia article on Imperata cylindrica, saw the "Weed problems" section and thought, "..slang is usually rejected by the sta... oooohhh, that kind of weed!"
Convenience and plausible deniability are somewhat mutually exclusive. Forensic traces are really hard to combat. Even if you memorize the ones and zeros, the "encryption" can mostly be broken with rubber-hose cryptoanalysis.
An interesting solution would be a browser plug-in gaining popularity which integrates with several major image hosting providers, offering client-side stenography and crypto. Only small files would fit though, but it'd be usable in some of the same scenarios Freenet was meant for, e.g. communication without 3rd parties being able to prove the communication takes place.
"Help me with the chores" -> Resolution: LATER
"Please wear respectable clothes sometimes" -> Resolution: WONTFIX
"I can't figure out that Linux crap, get Windows!" -> Resolution: WORKSFORME
It's the perfect tool!
"I want a divorce!" -> Reassign bug to wife@localhost
The gameplay of GarageBand is way more realistic than Rock Band! The sheer number of jarring sounds it can make when you suck at guitar is immense!. However, the graphics is somewhat bland in comparison.
Natural Selection had success in balancing itself by inviting diversity among its players. The marine team has chain of command - it allows less experienced players to be effective by following orders. On the alien team every player is equal. Both teams need strategic thinkers and good shooters. It leads to a enjoyable game for a larger spread of personality and experience level compared to, say, Counterstrike.
Because!
There's already a lot of good reasons why one should do a Flash-related project in haXe (shared front- and back-end code, pretty language, completely open-source, etc...). With RTMP support there would be one less excuse for not doing so.
"by LD50" isn't a meaningful way to compare water and cannabis, but if we compared the ratio between dose for desired effect and LD50, water is still orders of magnitude more toxic. (ref: see "Marijuana Overdose")
My colleague likes your idea but proposes you also make an XMPP extension to enhance the instant messaging experience. The Jabber client can then choose to support this extension in the form of a mood processor. Instead of marking text and adding e.g. "bold" as a modifier, you can mark text and mark it as "sad", "indifferent", "cough*word*cough", "sexy", and so on.
I don't think it's wrong to be somewhat hippocratic in this business; with lots of money and an established fan base he's in a much better position to challenge the system than if he was an amateur bedroom musician with all the right opinions. What was that movie or legend or story where a child gets adopted by his people's sworn enemy and in the end overthrows the empire that helped him to power? Or something like that.
No, no, no! Twelve-tone pitch is derrived from perfect intervals, such as perfect thirds, fourths and fifths. These can be defined very cleanly as the integer ratio between two frequencies (look up just intonation). The ratios are mathematically beautiful and simple, and also sound particularly good. The temperated (12 note) scale used by nearly all instruments today is an attempt to fit these intervals into a common scale. You may say that this approximation is a human invention (even though it's cleanly defined as freq = 440hz * 2^(n / 12), where n is the semi-note distance from A4), but as a whole? No.
In other words, it proabbly wouldn't make any sense to use a 16 note scale or something like that. The 12 note scale has roots in something very mathematical, not something random or "human".
But the plug-ins are not of the high standard that the Java development environment is, so there's currently little reason to use Eclipse for C++, C# or VB development unless Eclipse happens to be your favorite text editor (I use vim for anything that's not Java).
I've been using Eclipse professionally for some time and the only recent Visual Studio experience I've had has been working on some sparetime C++ project with a buddy. But from that I seemed to notice that the intellisense kind of feature and other assisting tools seem far more evolved in Eclipse. For instance, Visual Studio will sometimes fail to find the members in an object when I type <object><dot> and this rarely fails in Eclipse (unless there's a syntax error).
Eclipse also assists in further ways I'm missing from Visual Studio. It highlights syntax/parser errors, a feature which might seem annoying until you realise that Eclipse will help you solve it. This will save you from a lot of typing effort if you use it to your advantage. If you assign a value to an undeclared variable and press Ctrl+1 on the error Eclipse will offer to declare the variable either locally or as a field. If you instantiate a class, or access a method/field that doesn't exist Eclipse will offer to make a stub for you.
It's features like this that has turned Java from a hideously verbose language into something that's almost easier to develop in than Ruby (imho), and Visual Studio seems almost antiquated on this subject (there's no excuse for not implementing these features for statically typed languages such as C/C++)
Very nice toolkit with some problems
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The content on Google's GWT site almost speaks for itself concerning the power of it, so I'll elaborate on some negative aspects I've encountered.
I went to explore the possibility of a non-servlet based backend and very quickly encountered problems that are not really GWT's fault but a side effect of having a hosted environment: the browser is based on Mozilla and thus inherits the security restrictions of it. I could not make RPC calls to my backend web server because Mozilla disallows cross-domain access. I spent a lot of time trying to circumvent this, and did find some work-arounds but nothing that worked to my satisfaction (too cumbersome). GWT should offer a modified Mozilla with these restrictions removed, or even better, adopting Flash's excellent practise of looking for a crossdomain.xml file in the root of the target webserver (to see whether access is allowed or not).
Also, developing on an AMD64 based Linux I discovered that the hosting environment just doesn't work running from a 64bit JVM. Setting up a 32bit JVM isn't that difficult, but it's not a good solution (However, I talked to a GWT developer on IRC who claimed this issue was high on their priority list).
Lastly, GWT is a nice environment, but it's still a bit young. It seems stable enough, but if you engage in a large GWT based project you may find yourself doing a lot of low-level client-side code unless their limited palette of widgets and other client-side features completely cover your needs
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And make her do something useful for a change! (if she doesn't get stuck in nest of cables)
Or, they plan to make it even slower, and encourage users to upgrade their processors!
Just tell him that coding a linked list will give him 200 exp points.
More to the point, coding a game protocol exploit could give him 200 MILLION GENUINE AMERICAN exp points. Or his account revoked. Either way, the parent wins.
(about the temperature on the moon)
Farmer: Drops down to minus 173.
Fry: Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Farmer: First one, then the other.
I reached the Wikipedia article on Imperata cylindrica, saw the "Weed problems" section and thought, "..slang is usually rejected by the sta... oooohhh, that kind of weed!"
Convenience and plausible deniability are somewhat mutually exclusive. Forensic traces are really hard to combat. Even if you memorize the ones and zeros, the "encryption" can mostly be broken with rubber-hose cryptoanalysis.
An interesting solution would be a browser plug-in gaining popularity which integrates with several major image hosting providers, offering client-side stenography and crypto. Only small files would fit though, but it'd be usable in some of the same scenarios Freenet was meant for, e.g. communication without 3rd parties being able to prove the communication takes place.
Ahh, HPLOT... back in those days you didn't need an SI prefix to measure fillrate.
10 TEXT : HGR
20 HCOLOR=3
30 FOR I = 0 TO 16
40 HPLOT I+130,30 TO I+80,161
50 NEXT I
60 FOR I = 0 TO 15
70 HPLOT I+150,145 TO I+150,161
80 NEXT I
RUN
"Help me with the chores" -> Resolution: LATER
"Please wear respectable clothes sometimes" -> Resolution: WONTFIX
"I can't figure out that Linux crap, get Windows!" -> Resolution: WORKSFORME
It's the perfect tool!
"I want a divorce!" -> Reassign bug to wife@localhost
The gameplay of GarageBand is way more realistic than Rock Band! The sheer number of jarring sounds it can make when you suck at guitar is immense!. However, the graphics is somewhat bland in comparison.
They don't guarantee you don't lose your data, but it's probably more safe than what you can come up with yourself.
I came here to mention the Pac Man level 256 bug but looking for a link I found a whole glitch wiki!
Natural Selection had success in balancing itself by inviting diversity among its players. The marine team has chain of command - it allows less experienced players to be effective by following orders. On the alien team every player is equal. Both teams need strategic thinkers and good shooters. It leads to a enjoyable game for a larger spread of personality and experience level compared to, say, Counterstrike.
Because! There's already a lot of good reasons why one should do a Flash-related project in haXe (shared front- and back-end code, pretty language, completely open-source, etc...). With RTMP support there would be one less excuse for not doing so.
This is good news for the haXe community.
The victors always get to author history.
Isn't that the major point of the show? Humanity being flawed as hell? You're stating personal opinions of the show, not actual flaws of it.
"by LD50" isn't a meaningful way to compare water and cannabis, but if we compared the ratio between dose for desired effect and LD50, water is still orders of magnitude more toxic. (ref: see "Marijuana Overdose")
My colleague likes your idea but proposes you also make an XMPP extension to enhance the instant messaging experience. The Jabber client can then choose to support this extension in the form of a mood processor. Instead of marking text and adding e.g. "bold" as a modifier, you can mark text and mark it as "sad", "indifferent", "cough*word*cough", "sexy", and so on.
I don't think it's wrong to be somewhat hippocratic in this business; with lots of money and an established fan base he's in a much better position to challenge the system than if he was an amateur bedroom musician with all the right opinions. What was that movie or legend or story where a child gets adopted by his people's sworn enemy and in the end overthrows the empire that helped him to power? Or something like that.
No, no, no! Twelve-tone pitch is derrived from perfect intervals, such as perfect thirds, fourths and fifths. These can be defined very cleanly as the integer ratio between two frequencies (look up just intonation). The ratios are mathematically beautiful and simple, and also sound particularly good. The temperated (12 note) scale used by nearly all instruments today is an attempt to fit these intervals into a common scale. You may say that this approximation is a human invention (even though it's cleanly defined as freq = 440hz * 2^(n / 12), where n is the semi-note distance from A4), but as a whole? No.
In other words, it proabbly wouldn't make any sense to use a 16 note scale or something like that. The 12 note scale has roots in something very mathematical, not something random or "human".
But the plug-ins are not of the high standard that the Java development environment is, so there's currently little reason to use Eclipse for C++, C# or VB development unless Eclipse happens to be your favorite text editor (I use vim for anything that's not Java).
I've been using Eclipse professionally for some time and the only recent Visual Studio experience I've had has been working on some sparetime C++ project with a buddy. But from that I seemed to notice that the intellisense kind of feature and other assisting tools seem far more evolved in Eclipse. For instance, Visual Studio will sometimes fail to find the members in an object when I type <object><dot> and this rarely fails in Eclipse (unless there's a syntax error).
Eclipse also assists in further ways I'm missing from Visual Studio. It highlights syntax/parser errors, a feature which might seem annoying until you realise that Eclipse will help you solve it. This will save you from a lot of typing effort if you use it to your advantage. If you assign a value to an undeclared variable and press Ctrl+1 on the error Eclipse will offer to declare the variable either locally or as a field. If you instantiate a class, or access a method/field that doesn't exist Eclipse will offer to make a stub for you.
It's features like this that has turned Java from a hideously verbose language into something that's almost easier to develop in than Ruby (imho), and Visual Studio seems almost antiquated on this subject (there's no excuse for not implementing these features for statically typed languages such as C/C++)
Shit. I just accidently crashed my SR22 into the Google Campus. I hope they don't log these kind of things..
Still, somehow it dances a lot better than me.
The content on Google's GWT site almost speaks for itself concerning the power of it, so I'll elaborate on some negative aspects I've encountered.
I went to explore the possibility of a non-servlet based backend and very quickly encountered problems that are not really GWT's fault but a side effect of having a hosted environment: the browser is based on Mozilla and thus inherits the security restrictions of it. I could not make RPC calls to my backend web server because Mozilla disallows cross-domain access. I spent a lot of time trying to circumvent this, and did find some work-arounds but nothing that worked to my satisfaction (too cumbersome). GWT should offer a modified Mozilla with these restrictions removed, or even better, adopting Flash's excellent practise of looking for a crossdomain.xml file in the root of the target webserver (to see whether access is allowed or not).
Also, developing on an AMD64 based Linux I discovered that the hosting environment just doesn't work running from a 64bit JVM. Setting up a 32bit JVM isn't that difficult, but it's not a good solution (However, I talked to a GWT developer on IRC who claimed this issue was high on their priority list).
Lastly, GWT is a nice environment, but it's still a bit young. It seems stable enough, but if you engage in a large GWT based project you may find yourself doing a lot of low-level client-side code unless their limited palette of widgets and other client-side features completely cover your needs