I observed people who ran obviously faulty pieces of code a second time hoping for a different outcome
I'm just a student but it happens all the time to my friends when they try to play with pointers in C. Try looking for bugs in typedef char **(*something)(int *, char*);! Another funny behaviour is: program segfaults, debug program and... it works because the debugger initialises all the variables but there are other errors I've got a hard time to find.
I'll go further: any DVD I buy is ripped and burned as a backup with menus and dubbing removed. Menus can actually be worse than advertisment when they are too long and prevents you from changing the settings while watching the movie.
I don't have examples but I've seen a few "pop-under" windows, a layer pretending to be a window shown on top of your page (but still inside the page you're reading). It can have pictures and links like a real pop-up but it can be easily killed by AdBlock.
What service are you talking about? No one I know like pop-ups, it's always a waste of time and brings nothing useful. If an important site (like your bank) requires windows to be opened, you can add them to the list of the "Allowed Sites", that's very easy for n00bs like my parents to understand.
I need it to read Strong Bad's email on my Lappy 486, and a few other sites use Flash in a "not so bad" way like animations (yes, I know it's a waste of time) or artistic features.
And if you use the FlashBlock extension, nothing is loaded automatically, you have to click the button to enable a specific animation, nothing to fear.
And I'm currently considering becoming a CD Baby client: their CDs are cheaper, they support Free Software (Ruby!) and their web site is awesome (lots of advice and ideas about other genres I usually don't listen to).
This is also my idea of the future of music: try to innovate, be different and better. I recently discovered trip-hop music and I guess most of its sounds will only be mainstream in ten years. Be different! (Think Different!)
I hate Google: I don't want Google's never-ending cookie so every time I try to search something, Google redirects me to a completely random local version (fr/dk/se/de/...) when I just ask for google.com! The second problem is that this random page shows me results in the local language with a higher priority than the english (standard) pages.
I haven't found a good alternative to Google though...
Maybe I don't get it but I don't need to learn how to "tell jokes" to my friends. It comes naturally during an intelligent conversation. If you need some kind of social icebreaker to learn jokes, you must be an otaku on hikikomori stuck in your bedroom.
You're both right: most people "don't know" they live meaningless lives, that's why as soon as they sober up, they go back in front of their TV. But the reason they watch TV is that they have to fill the void with something noisy and entertaining (which I would describe as some kind of mild depression). This stupid game is just here to change your mind for five minutes but it never last longer.
I can't believe everyone already forgot Gambas... I just played with it because I don't need it but you can write GUIs in a VisualBasic-like language and works on Linux.
Either you're unlucky and try to download really old stuff that no one uploads anymore or your ISP is doing something in your back because I'm always downloading at full speed on most torrents. Someone also told you to check your firewall parameters which is a very good idea.
Does she look like a teenager to you? Let me use the same reasoning on the web site known as Slashdot:
Slashdot is unknown outside of the geeks world, if Microsoft were to buy the domain name tomorrow, no one would mind because it does not need visibility and has 0 clients. I bet Slashdot is not even trademarked!
Her shop is called Milka and she bought the domain name before Kraft. She is not hurting anyone and chocolate eaters DO NOT need to visit some fucking web site before buying some chocolate. I don't think there is anything you could say to explain Kraft's greedy behaviour.
and the DS is NOT a reason to stop writing games for the GBA. The GBA is a very good (and powerful) system to play with. If you don't want 3D, just write on the screen. If you want to go further, you still can write your own 3D library and have fun with assembly optimizations!
I hate this trend that people should stop everything each time a new gaming system comes out. Long live the NES and the Dreamcast!
That's the worst part of it: if I discovered that the parents I was supposed to trust were spying what I was doing, I would either have freaked out and turned into some kind of "doing nothing all day long" autist or I would have escaped from my home... What the fuck is this world I'm living in? (and don't tell me that you don't have time to raise your kids;)
But I don't understand why the articles says protesting is an "ongoing" habit? Maybe it just is the future of television: instead of being spoon-fed every kind of s**t, we'll have a voice to tell or indicate "what we want" and "what we don't want anymore."
Weblogs and the internet are supposed to change journalism, why can't TV change too?
Heaven forbid you might actually care about your children and what they get into at a young age.
That's why we have this thing called "parenting". You know, the stuff like "you sit next to your kid when he's looking some info on the net for some school report and you help him" or the other thing like "this is bad and you should not do it, you should try to respect other kids".
Parenting is such a wonderful world I'm sure you would love it. Give it a try one day!
Go is a very good game and I agree with what you said but for more than two players, you'll have to paint your stones in different colors than the boring white/black (I suggest red, green, yellow and blue;)
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Replace the password with the SSN and the bar of chocolate with a wonderful contest to win $1,000,000!!!
I'll go further: any DVD I buy is ripped and burned as a backup with menus and dubbing removed. Menus can actually be worse than advertisment when they are too long and prevents you from changing the settings while watching the movie.
What a scam. I could already select Tom Cruise twenty years ago...
I don't have examples but I've seen a few "pop-under" windows, a layer pretending to be a window shown on top of your page (but still inside the page you're reading). It can have pictures and links like a real pop-up but it can be easily killed by AdBlock.
What service are you talking about? No one I know like pop-ups, it's always a waste of time and brings nothing useful. If an important site (like your bank) requires windows to be opened, you can add them to the list of the "Allowed Sites", that's very easy for n00bs like my parents to understand.
What good features did it have anyway?
I need it to read Strong Bad's email on my Lappy 486, and a few other sites use Flash in a "not so bad" way like animations (yes, I know it's a waste of time) or artistic features.
And if you use the FlashBlock extension, nothing is loaded automatically, you have to click the button to enable a specific animation, nothing to fear.
And I'm currently considering becoming a CD Baby client: their CDs are cheaper, they support Free Software (Ruby!) and their web site is awesome (lots of advice and ideas about other genres I usually don't listen to).
This is also my idea of the future of music: try to innovate, be different and better. I recently discovered trip-hop music and I guess most of its sounds will only be mainstream in ten years. Be different! (Think Different!)
Disney owns the right to Peter Pan? This is news to me, I thought the book (written by J.M. Barrie) was in the public domain...
I hate Google: I don't want Google's never-ending cookie so every time I try to search something, Google redirects me to a completely random local version (fr/dk/se/de/...) when I just ask for google.com! The second problem is that this random page shows me results in the local language with a higher priority than the english (standard) pages.
I haven't found a good alternative to Google though...
AES is really more simple to understand than DES, you definitely should have a look at it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES
Maybe I don't get it but I don't need to learn how to "tell jokes" to my friends. It comes naturally during an intelligent conversation. If you need some kind of social icebreaker to learn jokes, you must be an otaku on hikikomori stuck in your bedroom.
You're both right: most people "don't know" they live meaningless lives, that's why as soon as they sober up, they go back in front of their TV. But the reason they watch TV is that they have to fill the void with something noisy and entertaining (which I would describe as some kind of mild depression). This stupid game is just here to change your mind for five minutes but it never last longer.
I can't believe everyone already forgot Gambas... I just played with it because I don't need it but you can write GUIs in a VisualBasic-like language and works on Linux.
Either you're unlucky and try to download really old stuff that no one uploads anymore or your ISP is doing something in your back because I'm always downloading at full speed on most torrents. Someone also told you to check your firewall parameters which is a very good idea.
Does she look like a teenager to you? Let me use the same reasoning on the web site known as Slashdot:
Slashdot is unknown outside of the geeks world, if Microsoft were to buy the domain name tomorrow, no one would mind because it does not need visibility and has 0 clients. I bet Slashdot is not even trademarked!
Her shop is called Milka and she bought the domain name before Kraft. She is not hurting anyone and chocolate eaters DO NOT need to visit some fucking web site before buying some chocolate. I don't think there is anything you could say to explain Kraft's greedy behaviour.
It's very easy to make money with OSS but people always complain later ! So much for pretending being "open"...
with full knowledge that it WILL be useful someday.
;)
That's why you need Literate Programming! A very good book for all the family
and the DS is NOT a reason to stop writing games for the GBA. The GBA is a very good (and powerful) system to play with. If you don't want 3D, just write on the screen. If you want to go further, you still can write your own 3D library and have fun with assembly optimizations!
I hate this trend that people should stop everything each time a new gaming system comes out. Long live the NES and the Dreamcast!
Your data will be OK (well, I hope). But the article forgot to say that SHA and AES were also included in this "Suite B."
That's the worst part of it: if I discovered that the parents I was supposed to trust were spying what I was doing, I would either have freaked out and turned into some kind of "doing nothing all day long" autist or I would have escaped from my home... What the fuck is this world I'm living in? (and don't tell me that you don't have time to raise your kids ;)
Something like this for example? That will be the worst show EVER, I'm eagerly waiting not to see it!
But I don't understand why the articles says protesting is an "ongoing" habit? Maybe it just is the future of television: instead of being spoon-fed every kind of s**t, we'll have a voice to tell or indicate "what we want" and "what we don't want anymore."
Weblogs and the internet are supposed to change journalism, why can't TV change too?
Heaven forbid you might actually care about your children and what they get into at a young age.
That's why we have this thing called "parenting". You know, the stuff like "you sit next to your kid when he's looking some info on the net for some school report and you help him" or the other thing like "this is bad and you should not do it, you should try to respect other kids".
Parenting is such a wonderful world I'm sure you would love it. Give it a try one day!
Go is a very good game and I agree with what you said but for more than two players, you'll have to paint your stones in different colors than the boring white/black (I suggest red, green, yellow and blue ;)