Virtual Dishwashing features you as Sudwise Slick, the meanest soldier in the fight against the vile armies of Lord Grungeworth.
Featuring live sudsing action with wall-climbing abilities and breakneck speeds as you chain combo slides to build up the force you need to knock the grunge back into the depths of the drain. One false slip at these velocities will burst Slick's bubble and see the victory of Grungeworth's Operation Buildup, so watch your step.
Any modern project in C++ that does not involve embedded hardware should be using Boost, period. C++ without Boost is like a marathon without legs. Incorporating it is a piece of cake, and it adds so much functionality that you'll wonder how you managed without it. On top of that, it's so widespread that support for it is quite common. It's even to the point that the new standard is actually stealing bits and pieces from it.
Never, and I never will. No one ever will, because it's a logically absurd pattern. It's just an attempt at stringing as many modifiers together as possible, which while confusing from the perspective of English, is quite simple to express in C++:
class base { virtual ~base() = 0; };
class child : protected virtual base {};
The problem with this contrived example is that marking the base class as virtual is unnecessary. The only time you'll need to inherit as virtual is when you have something like a diamond-shaped hierarchy, which in itself typically suggests a design flaw.
Also, the only way to make this actually compile (assuming you try to instantiate child) is with something like so:
class child;
class base { friend class child; virtual ~base() = 0; };
base::~base() {}
class child : protected virtual base {};
There may be more convoluted ways to use this pattern, but I still can't say I've ever seen one that was actually useful and not solvable with something simpler and more idiomatic.
Japan is having issues funding their retiree health and pension plans. These fines go towards the pension plan, if memory serves. The fines also are coming from businesses, rather than individuals, so there's less direct anger from the public. Unless you get fired over it, of course.
My Japanese-fu is weak, but near the bottom of the original Japanese article: "Thanks to this [R2D2], we have become able to happily look forward to the occurrence of server trouble."
What? I don't care if you destroy Alderaan every time an error occurs, I will not happily look forward to it. Also, is it just me or is Japan the only country that will legitimately allow a business news posting to have smilies in it?
Just because it's digital doesn't mean it doesn't need marketing. Even the authors that use the publisher's marketing system still have to do a good amount of footwork themselves to push their books. The few authors I do know, those that don't use the middle-marketing-man, work their asses off just to get their books heard of let alone purchased. It's not a terribly forgiving business, particularly in a society that favors visual media.
While some authors are authors as an aside -- for example, an engineer that writes a book about his trade -- those that are authors as their primary means of sustenance do often live a hand-to-mouth existence. Excluding the household few, Rowlings and King for example.
Also, digital book adoption isn't quite to the point that you could reasonably expect 200,000 copies for anything but bestsellers. Though this is a thought I've pulled from my hat. I'm not actually aware of the numbers, but I doubt they exceed hard copy sales at this time. One individual I know has sold maybe a few thousand -- even at $3 to $5 a book, this isn't enough to live off.
I don't feel sorry for them -- they chose to be a writer after all -- but I don't think $1 is reasonable for most writers, even if it is digital. Most writers won't sell the volume necessary to make it worthwhile. As it is, I don't think we need more things to discourage people from writing.
Assuming the gracious amount of 25% royalties and say, a $10,000 advance, as an author I'd only be making $60,000 from a book if it managed to sell 200,000 copies. Bestsellers can be anywhere from 500,000 to 1,000,000 or more copies. With around 175,000 new books put out every year in the US alone, I doubt that most of those books put out will even come close to bestseller status.
Taking into account that many authors manage maybe a book every two to four years, $1 is unreasonably shortchanging them.
I'm not sure why. Many MMOs have it right in the EULA that anything you say or do in the game belongs to them. You're only renting access to data on their servers, they maintain all ownership of that data. They should be able to easily take whatever interesting bits they like.
Granted, IANAL, so I could be hideously simplifying a decapitation into a flesh wound.
I don't hate Firefox 3, I hate "awesome" bar. Everything else I've been fine with. I quite enjoy the memory fixes and the improvements to JavaScript support. I even like the database backend for bookmarks.
I just don't like that what should be an extension is being forced on me. For me, the whole benefit to Firefox was that it was an extremely lightweight foundation with excellent support for expansion by the community -- I could have it as light or as heavy as I wanted. Now I'm getting all these extra things that I don't particularly need. Having them available is great, but have them available as an extension so I don't have to spend my cycles on them.
Actually, I've been using Fx3 since beta1. I still am not really keen on the thing. Unless I make sure to keep my bookmarks and history trimmed down, it freezes my system for a few seconds as it trudges through things. This is irritating, especially when I was just wanting to type in an address real quick and not have possible matches pulled up. It consumes more time in searching for possible results than it saves me in typing.
Some way of reverting to the old functionality would be nice.
Really? Only four characters? I find that kind of surprising. I guess I'm just a freak. Granted, my systems are usually up for lengthy enough periods of time that a fifty-plus character password isn't too irritating.
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I can't argue whether or not it's effective from the perspective of a person that "knows what they're doing", not being an artist myself.
I can argue though that I managed to pick up 3D Studio Max, install it, and punch out a relatively simple spaceship model for a game I was working on. I'd even say it was slightly better than typical programmer art, but that's me. I did this in about an hour. I did this without tutorials or having really touched 3DSM prior to that point. I had the option to try it and I did. I won't say the interface is brilliant, but it was at the very least obvious for basic things.
It took me a good part of that same hour just to figure out how I would achieve this in Blender because Blender's way is not obvious. I have to say I like Blender for what it is, I like the push to try something new, but not being an artist, I don't want to spend more time becoming familiar with something than the amount of time I'm actually going to spend using it.
It may be stupid, but there's something to be said for a program that's so dumb that even a person completely unfamiliar with the field can use it to do what they want without training.
...but I have this fuzzy notion that there are licenses outside of the GPL -- ones that even allow being both for profit and open source. I'm using the simple meaning of open source, admittedly.
A company that I once had dealings with was quite proud of their five nines. The motivation? It cost them $18,000 per second they were down. 30 seconds isn't just 30 seconds sometimes.
Oh, so there are still positions for non-degreed people? I had been holding off for so long because everything I'd personally seen was requiring a degree — admittedly not a bad thing given the number of people that claim to be capable of teaching proper English, but very disheartening for someone like me who has just begun the walk on university road. Are there any programs towards becoming an assistant, or is it pretty much just a you happen to be available in Japan at the time they need assistance and have a work visa sort of thing?
The average mercenary, with emphasis on average as a good one would ask for a hell of a lot more, makes between $1,000 and $2,500 per day, depending on the situation and prior experience. While I couldn't say for others, my taxes certainly don't come to anywhere near this, so I think I'll stick with the taxes for now.
The average terrorist is a tad unreliable and typically has the inclination to just gut you and take the money. Many people do associate tax collectors with having their wallets stabbed, but many people would also rather their wallet than their kidney.
If you don't mind my asking, what exactly are English teachers doing that is so horrific? I understand that Americans can be... awfully exuberant might be a polite way of putting it, but how much of this is general social shock versus them actually being asshats?
Not trying to suggest that "Oh, that simply cannot be!", just a bit curious of the situation. I've been pondering the JET program for after I finish my degree and any information on such things from a person that's actually over there wouldn't hurt.
As far as this season has put out, Kaiji seems to be an interesting break from the typical harem-style, world-savior, battle-robot theme. It focuses on a street punk that likes to gamble and takes a gambling deal with the mafia to have all his debts erased. The artwork is highly stylized and may not be appreciable by some, and admittedly the story isn't exactly deep, but it's a fairly nice break from all the usual fare, I think.
Oh, you may also want to check out Seirei no Moribito. A very beautiful piece of work, both in audio and video. The story is quite well done, although I've unfortunately only seen it in the original airing. My Japanese not being very good, I'm not entirely sure about where it all went.
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The obvious solution is to transfer human consciousness to machines and do away with mobile meat sacks. Long live the Core!
The Stargate project is finally paying off, I see.
Virtual Dishwashing features you as Sudwise Slick, the meanest soldier in the fight against the vile armies of Lord Grungeworth.
Featuring live sudsing action with wall-climbing abilities and breakneck speeds as you chain combo slides to build up the force you need to knock the grunge back into the depths of the drain. One false slip at these velocities will burst Slick's bubble and see the victory of Grungeworth's Operation Buildup, so watch your step.
I typed north, east, and even tried northeast, but it never let me go anywhere. Worst MUD ever.
Any modern project in C++ that does not involve embedded hardware should be using Boost, period. C++ without Boost is like a marathon without legs. Incorporating it is a piece of cake, and it adds so much functionality that you'll wonder how you managed without it. On top of that, it's so widespread that support for it is quite common. It's even to the point that the new standard is actually stealing bits and pieces from it.
Never, and I never will. No one ever will, because it's a logically absurd pattern. It's just an attempt at stringing as many modifiers together as possible, which while confusing from the perspective of English, is quite simple to express in C++:
class base { virtual ~base() = 0; };
class child : protected virtual base {};
The problem with this contrived example is that marking the base class as virtual is unnecessary. The only time you'll need to inherit as virtual is when you have something like a diamond-shaped hierarchy, which in itself typically suggests a design flaw.
Also, the only way to make this actually compile (assuming you try to instantiate child) is with something like so:
class child;
class base { friend class child; virtual ~base() = 0; };
base::~base() {}
class child : protected virtual base {};
There may be more convoluted ways to use this pattern, but I still can't say I've ever seen one that was actually useful and not solvable with something simpler and more idiomatic.
Japan is having issues funding their retiree health and pension plans. These fines go towards the pension plan, if memory serves. The fines also are coming from businesses, rather than individuals, so there's less direct anger from the public. Unless you get fired over it, of course.
My Japanese-fu is weak, but near the bottom of the original Japanese article: "Thanks to this [R2D2], we have become able to happily look forward to the occurrence of server trouble."
What? I don't care if you destroy Alderaan every time an error occurs, I will not happily look forward to it. Also, is it just me or is Japan the only country that will legitimately allow a business news posting to have smilies in it?
Just because it's digital doesn't mean it doesn't need marketing. Even the authors that use the publisher's marketing system still have to do a good amount of footwork themselves to push their books. The few authors I do know, those that don't use the middle-marketing-man, work their asses off just to get their books heard of let alone purchased. It's not a terribly forgiving business, particularly in a society that favors visual media.
While some authors are authors as an aside -- for example, an engineer that writes a book about his trade -- those that are authors as their primary means of sustenance do often live a hand-to-mouth existence. Excluding the household few, Rowlings and King for example.
Also, digital book adoption isn't quite to the point that you could reasonably expect 200,000 copies for anything but bestsellers. Though this is a thought I've pulled from my hat. I'm not actually aware of the numbers, but I doubt they exceed hard copy sales at this time. One individual I know has sold maybe a few thousand -- even at $3 to $5 a book, this isn't enough to live off.
I don't feel sorry for them -- they chose to be a writer after all -- but I don't think $1 is reasonable for most writers, even if it is digital. Most writers won't sell the volume necessary to make it worthwhile. As it is, I don't think we need more things to discourage people from writing.
I fail to see why they should be.
Assuming the gracious amount of 25% royalties and say, a $10,000 advance, as an author I'd only be making $60,000 from a book if it managed to sell 200,000 copies. Bestsellers can be anywhere from 500,000 to 1,000,000 or more copies. With around 175,000 new books put out every year in the US alone, I doubt that most of those books put out will even come close to bestseller status.
Taking into account that many authors manage maybe a book every two to four years, $1 is unreasonably shortchanging them.
I'm not sure why. Many MMOs have it right in the EULA that anything you say or do in the game belongs to them. You're only renting access to data on their servers, they maintain all ownership of that data. They should be able to easily take whatever interesting bits they like.
Granted, IANAL, so I could be hideously simplifying a decapitation into a flesh wound.
I don't hate Firefox 3, I hate "awesome" bar. Everything else I've been fine with. I quite enjoy the memory fixes and the improvements to JavaScript support. I even like the database backend for bookmarks.
I just don't like that what should be an extension is being forced on me. For me, the whole benefit to Firefox was that it was an extremely lightweight foundation with excellent support for expansion by the community -- I could have it as light or as heavy as I wanted. Now I'm getting all these extra things that I don't particularly need. Having them available is great, but have them available as an extension so I don't have to spend my cycles on them.
Actually, I've been using Fx3 since beta1. I still am not really keen on the thing. Unless I make sure to keep my bookmarks and history trimmed down, it freezes my system for a few seconds as it trudges through things. This is irritating, especially when I was just wanting to type in an address real quick and not have possible matches pulled up. It consumes more time in searching for possible results than it saves me in typing.
Some way of reverting to the old functionality would be nice.
Really? Only four characters? I find that kind of surprising. I guess I'm just a freak. Granted, my systems are usually up for lengthy enough periods of time that a fifty-plus character password isn't too irritating.
I can't argue whether or not it's effective from the perspective of a person that "knows what they're doing", not being an artist myself.
I can argue though that I managed to pick up 3D Studio Max, install it, and punch out a relatively simple spaceship model for a game I was working on. I'd even say it was slightly better than typical programmer art, but that's me. I did this in about an hour. I did this without tutorials or having really touched 3DSM prior to that point. I had the option to try it and I did. I won't say the interface is brilliant, but it was at the very least obvious for basic things.
It took me a good part of that same hour just to figure out how I would achieve this in Blender because Blender's way is not obvious. I have to say I like Blender for what it is, I like the push to try something new, but not being an artist, I don't want to spend more time becoming familiar with something than the amount of time I'm actually going to spend using it.
It may be stupid, but there's something to be said for a program that's so dumb that even a person completely unfamiliar with the field can use it to do what they want without training.
What's weird is that she spits out receipts.
Good thing we've still got 10^22 more stars to check out, eh?
Bill seems to have this funny thing against that one, so I figured I'd try to vaguely gesture at others.
...but I have this fuzzy notion that there are licenses outside of the GPL -- ones that even allow being both for profit and open source. I'm using the simple meaning of open source, admittedly.
A company that I once had dealings with was quite proud of their five nines. The motivation? It cost them $18,000 per second they were down. 30 seconds isn't just 30 seconds sometimes.
Oh, so there are still positions for non-degreed people? I had been holding off for so long because everything I'd personally seen was requiring a degree — admittedly not a bad thing given the number of people that claim to be capable of teaching proper English, but very disheartening for someone like me who has just begun the walk on university road. Are there any programs towards becoming an assistant, or is it pretty much just a you happen to be available in Japan at the time they need assistance and have a work visa sort of thing?
The average mercenary, with emphasis on average as a good one would ask for a hell of a lot more, makes between $1,000 and $2,500 per day, depending on the situation and prior experience. While I couldn't say for others, my taxes certainly don't come to anywhere near this, so I think I'll stick with the taxes for now.
The average terrorist is a tad unreliable and typically has the inclination to just gut you and take the money. Many people do associate tax collectors with having their wallets stabbed, but many people would also rather their wallet than their kidney.
If you don't mind my asking, what exactly are English teachers doing that is so horrific? I understand that Americans can be... awfully exuberant might be a polite way of putting it, but how much of this is general social shock versus them actually being asshats?
Not trying to suggest that "Oh, that simply cannot be!", just a bit curious of the situation. I've been pondering the JET program for after I finish my degree and any information on such things from a person that's actually over there wouldn't hurt.
As far as this season has put out, Kaiji seems to be an interesting break from the typical harem-style, world-savior, battle-robot theme. It focuses on a street punk that likes to gamble and takes a gambling deal with the mafia to have all his debts erased. The artwork is highly stylized and may not be appreciable by some, and admittedly the story isn't exactly deep, but it's a fairly nice break from all the usual fare, I think.
Oh, you may also want to check out Seirei no Moribito. A very beautiful piece of work, both in audio and video. The story is quite well done, although I've unfortunately only seen it in the original airing. My Japanese not being very good, I'm not entirely sure about where it all went.
One hundred of them, to be exact!