Left is the right side, else you would end up flaying alive all the pedestrians with your whip.
Just because London had the first decent road system for horse drawn carriages.
The taxi-cab was coined after the cabriolet carraige released in Paris 1800.
And that is irrelevant I know, but GTA london was on the left... and I actually got more confused playing GTA between left and right that driving in Germany, which I had a few close calls.
Now I drive on the right, which they say make syou more calm (our chemical-sided imbalance probably) but I do not see evidence of that in Brussels drivers.
I walked into my local gyros shop, and after my usually geeky rss sync of his menu, and then hand coding a remot procedure call over a serial cable to his antiquainted register (which i had to write my own assembly language for) I successfully ordered a nice nourishing treat to feed my brain.
Of course, he wasn;t allowed to ask me 'the usual' which I have ordered 23590285094 times in my life at that place, because some people are using anticompetative measures to throw companies off with patents.
I have no money by myself to sue the US patent office for fraud, or all fruadulent patent holders, but I bet the computing community as a whole should feel obliugated to stop this shenanegans right now
Despite opening up an amazon package last night, I am totally pissed off with thier patent portfolio, but they might feel it is necessary to have dud patents to conteract other dud patents.
can we stop this madness soon
Anyone thinking of a new startup had better forget it, it is impossible to do anything now, because virtually everything we do on the internet is in violation of a patent or other.
JOIN MESUE THE US PATENT OFFICE TODAY
Better yet, find some us patent people who downloaded MP3's, and some RIAA people downloading movies, and a movie industry giant writing software that infringes SCO (giggle) patents - THEN they can all sue themselves into insanity, and all the lawyers will die of heart attacks from eating too much from being so stinking rich, or yachting accidents, or ferrari accidents, and then the world shall be ok again.
but the portrayal of real violence and death in italy (see Gladitor flick) is sickening
The gladiatoral matches that were common entertainment were attrocious, and the glamourisation of all fighting sports, and by my reckoning the over violent nature of Hollywood (I mean, punisher is a marvel comic, yes comics are violent... but I found the violence in that film too graphic for an audience that would comprise of people who think, oh another comic>screen movie, like spiderman I bet..) I am not saying we should censor it for those people who want to see it, but I was mildly irratated that the movie houses wanted to put so much graphic content in that movie.
I hope the case is made. (see bad boys 2, after bad boys 1, a fairly decent flick, I was quite annoyed that the film went OTT with graphic violence)
Counterstrike 'characters' are just people dressed in common attire that you would most likely see someone on a killing spree wearing...
Now did these guys play counterstrike?
As for let the blaming begin It amazes me how quick people are to strike down something they have no comprehension of.
For one thing, you strike down all media blame of computer games prompting violent behaviour (and films etc) and you simply pass it off as 1+1=3 in thier minds because you play violent games and you don't murder people.
That doesn't mean to say there is or isn't a connection, and there are no conclusive studies that some people who are a little socially eclipsed that are affected by continuous and sporting presentation of killing.
Now I am not saying either way, but I am not sarcastically throwing down the gauntlet for possible ridicule either.
These people must have been capable of this murder prior, and the fact that somehow (I do not know how, unless they jumped aorund whilst firing saying "I pwn you b1tch3s!" like most server players - or used an aim bot) the relationship between clothing attire and a computer game (shakey to me) just muddies the fact that someone got shot, and what was the motive for these people.
One day people might start trying to use computer games as a defence... or worse, it may be the cause, we do not know yet, but the portrayal of real violence and death in italy (see Gladitor flick) is sickening, and we are on the verge of that popularisation of gore and death (see Bad Boys 2, which was a shit aweful film for gratuitous violence, to an almost comedic extent)
I actually had flinching urges to try car jacking after playing GTA2 for 48 hours solid (better than studying at the time). Maybe I am weak.
I think the issue is not to centralise some 'uability priesthood' that would oversee design decisions in an open source project, but to educate and motivate developers... I think this is happening to a degree.
There are many resources out there, such as apple, kde and gnome usability and style guides, but the whole issue of usability is so tightly bound into overall program design that a centralised group would do nothing.
A site that brought together all development resources for usability and allowed people to sign up as usability testers (d/l app, run, do tasks, report) and also sign up and usability report interpretters (convert the information into a concise usable format - like a bugzilla report) would be more usable, accessible and accepted by the majority of OSS devs in the world today.
The last thing you want is some guy saying : "You didn't want to do that, no, you wanted to do this!":-)
Now, I said I am not a qt/gtk/??? developer, but I feel that the libraries should be assessed to see if they allow for usability and ACCESSIBILITY at an easy level [IE, high contrast interfaces easy to develop and skin... I think this is the case right now.. again IANAQT/GTKD.]
ASIDE from that, the $40m of research for a blah blah custom interface?
That could mean anything! Like, lets blow $40m on some interns to boost our university image, and then get them to hack a VB program in a cold room while we ignore them, and then give the obligatory tatty report to the guy who gets paid enough not to read it...
LinkedList linkedList = new LinkedList(); Foo foo = new Foo(); linkedList.add(foo);
I guess this would be a little more productive than the 1 page of code you saw elsewhere. Unless of course you are makinga bsuiness out of selling linkedlists...
If you want to pay to re-invent the wheel, then go ahead.
BTW I am not looking for a job, but feel free to use the above code.
I used C# (asp.net) for 6 months solid, I mean 8-10 hours a day on a project, and to quote Bucky Katt, it spouts more shit than a prune taster with a stomach virus.
I am also interested in a complete mapping and routing solutions, especially with my upcoming GPS purchase, I really want to have not just a workable solution, but the best on the market.
I am not too bothered about sources, if it works, but price is an issue naturally. If it was open source but too expensive, then I would opt for a cheaper closed source version if it was as good.
Why are you even scared - so what if China is developing fast, has 1/6 the world population, you can just be thankful (if you like) that for the last few millenia they have been content stuck behind a wall.
I think China is interesting, they will grow rapidly, with ever increasing ties into Japan-tech and don't forget a little sporting event in 2008 that will wake up most of the western world to how great China is.
I wouldn't think for one moment China wants to barrage the US with bombs, I think barraging them with LCD's, Chips and assorted gadgetry will suffice.
Look what happened ot Japan after 2 nuclear bombs. They didn't reinvest into thier army, but in developing technology.
If in 4 years I here rhetorical war mongering amongst a (hopefully not, why not go and vote today?) Bush administration I will wonder what country they will hype up as a threat to world security in order to keep their little club in power.
You see, we have no right being scared, trying to hold back other countries. You cannot be anti-monopolistic and worry about China at the same time.
Fact: China will become a (the) world super power within 40 years, and export technology, culture and politics around the world.
I for one welcome our Chinese overlords...:-) hahahahahahahahhaha laugh. Oh read Neuromancer and see for yourself the Asian overtones that sweep the entire future worlds.
Anything a little too 'heavy'politically should have a label, with a message of intent, else rather then needlessly brainwash our children with senseless violence, we might start brainwashing them with senseless politics!
Mothers will sue EA, Lucasarts and Infogramms for polluting thier childs mind.
"My child became a libertarian because of your computer games!"
"My child became gay because of a bug in Singles!" (although I think it supports this mode of 'co-habitation' not that I looked or even looked at the game... [seinfeld]Not that there is anything wrong with that[/seinfeld]
I started using Netbeans waaay back in the day, I had a few problems, but I liked the interface. I made the arduous chance to Eclipse, and it took a while, but slowly I got used to Eclipse.
I always wanted to go back to Netbeans to see what they had, but always Eclipse was good enough - now!
And the refactoring blew me away, and speed, and SWeeTness.
The CVS integration was quirky since the beginning (when I used it) then matured. I have been using a 2003 build until about month ago, and I was almost lost again using it.
Well, I thought that was time ot check out Netbeans again, but I started developing some code out of office, and found myself using a twisted up machine at a local university - I smacked emacs and cygwin on, and after a couple of days hitting [End] instead of C^e I got into it...
Now I use emacs at work... it is like having a colonic for your mind... it cleans out all those things you were thinking about, and gets you back to the code level.
I still love eclipse and have about a million templates that go az, azz, azzz, qaz, qazza, zxc, zxczxc for doing all sorts of wierd and wonderful shortcuts. I love the accessibility of the information I need about libraries and attaching source to a.jar you have on the classpath. [rather than *mounting* source in netbeans.]
I have had about ~4 crashes in my workspace in one week when using some large projects (on a nightly I just happened to get):
I think using C^x-f and finding the source you need quickly, search the method name, read the method, is a bit more holistic then using the f3 all the time in eclipse...
So in one sense I love Eclipse, and always will, I shed many a tear for Netbeans, and promise myself to reinstall it. I hate JDeveloper 9, JBuilder I only used at The Big U, and EditPlus never fails!
What an unfortunate name. I agree with the kill him verdict, but you guys no my sentencing tends to reduce the head count a little excessively.
But kill him anyway. I feel like I need to read a decent in depth on this case, a few similar stories here and there don't do it for me. I would like to marinate this before I spill any blood.
Sausage inna bun? They're Luvvley! get them while they're hot!!
After I finished Moving Pictures again, next time of the clicks I bought a hot-dog and was puzzled to find that even in this multiverse sausage-inna-bun has a foamy bright pink texture that is probably pig...
It was an optical read error! Gutenburg conjures up german speaking nations to me, and I was skim reading and well, the same applies.
Except the read through would be:
"Strewth mate, if yer not a bona-fide aussie then maybe you wanna go walkabout this arvo, because bang my wallaby, shielas gone and put some book of sorts on this interweb site, and you some limey outback wanderer from the creek trying to get it right? have a tinny and push off!"
Oh dear I forgot that < and > don't work in/. - so you didn't see my sarcasm tags...
no hang on, I thought they were obvious.
Yes, I agree 15 years would cost the tax payer too much, just sling a rope over the dock and pull the chair away as the sentence is read:-)
Just kidding! Fines for sure, and the defense lawers shouldn't be allowed to profit from this... I dunno... there is something about the people who send spam will figure a way of making money from getting convicted...
Why not have a simple piece of text 'if you are in Austria you can download this, otherwise, sorry, move on.'
This is the problem with the internet and local laws... annoying!
I hope (well I am sure) they will not take it down, but although the France / Yahoo! (or was it ebay?) case may be relevant, this might provide new precedents in dealing with such stuff.
I mean, I'd preffer to see Blown Away anyway, starring Rock!*
There are a few Databases I would look at for a client.
Oracle...
DB2...
Now DB2 would be if they were already using DB2.
Not that Oracle is better, or that I trust them, but in computing if there are 100,000 other customers using it, you cannot be sure it will stand up for your usage.
So size does matter. [for databases, and male gentalia (sorry folks)]
I am not a database admin. I personally like MySQL and use it for my own development. I hate getting confused between the oracle way and the mysql way.
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Left is the right side, else you would end up flaying alive all the pedestrians with your whip.
Just because London had the first decent road system for horse drawn carriages.
The taxi-cab was coined after the cabriolet carraige released in Paris 1800.
And that is irrelevant I know, but GTA london was on the left... and I actually got more confused playing GTA between left and right that driving in Germany, which I had a few close calls.
Now I drive on the right, which they say make syou more calm (our chemical-sided imbalance probably) but I do not see evidence of that in Brussels drivers.
I walked into my local gyros shop, and after my usually geeky rss sync of his menu, and then hand coding a remot procedure call over a serial cable to his antiquainted register (which i had to write my own assembly language for) I successfully ordered a nice nourishing treat to feed my brain.
Of course, he wasn;t allowed to ask me 'the usual' which I have ordered 23590285094 times in my life at that place, because some people are using anticompetative measures to throw companies off with patents.
I have no money by myself to sue the US patent office for fraud, or all fruadulent patent holders, but I bet the computing community as a whole should feel obliugated to stop this shenanegans right now
Despite opening up an amazon package last night, I am totally pissed off with thier patent portfolio, but they might feel it is necessary to have dud patents to conteract other dud patents.
can we stop this madness soon
Anyone thinking of a new startup had better forget it, it is impossible to do anything now, because virtually everything we do on the internet is in violation of a patent or other.
JOIN ME SUE THE US PATENT OFFICE TODAY
Better yet, find some us patent people who downloaded MP3's, and some RIAA people downloading movies, and a movie industry giant writing software that infringes SCO (giggle) patents - THEN they can all sue themselves into insanity, and all the lawyers will die of heart attacks from eating too much from being so stinking rich, or yachting accidents, or ferrari accidents, and then the world shall be ok again.
$opensource != $free
Oooh...
Yeah, once again my hippy-like ignorance of crimes against humanity has let me down.
Thanks
but the portrayal of real violence and death in italy (see Gladitor flick) is sickening
The gladiatoral matches that were common entertainment were attrocious, and the glamourisation of all fighting sports, and by my reckoning the over violent nature of Hollywood (I mean, punisher is a marvel comic, yes comics are violent... but I found the violence in that film too graphic for an audience that would comprise of people who think, oh another comic>screen movie, like spiderman I bet..) I am not saying we should censor it for those people who want to see it, but I was mildly irratated that the movie houses wanted to put so much graphic content in that movie.
I hope the case is made. (see bad boys 2, after bad boys 1, a fairly decent flick, I was quite annoyed that the film went OTT with graphic violence)
Art imitating life imitating art...
Counterstrike 'characters' are just people dressed in common attire that you would most likely see someone on a killing spree wearing...
Now did these guys play counterstrike?
As for let the blaming begin It amazes me how quick people are to strike down something they have no comprehension of.
For one thing, you strike down all media blame of computer games prompting violent behaviour (and films etc) and you simply pass it off as 1+1=3 in thier minds because you play violent games and you don't murder people.
That doesn't mean to say there is or isn't a connection, and there are no conclusive studies that some people who are a little socially eclipsed that are affected by continuous and sporting presentation of killing.
Now I am not saying either way, but I am not sarcastically throwing down the gauntlet for possible ridicule either.
These people must have been capable of this murder prior, and the fact that somehow (I do not know how, unless they jumped aorund whilst firing saying "I pwn you b1tch3s!" like most server players - or used an aim bot) the relationship between clothing attire and a computer game (shakey to me) just muddies the fact that someone got shot, and what was the motive for these people.
One day people might start trying to use computer games as a defence... or worse, it may be the cause, we do not know yet, but the portrayal of real violence and death in italy (see Gladitor flick) is sickening, and we are on the verge of that popularisation of gore and death (see Bad Boys 2, which was a shit aweful film for gratuitous violence, to an almost comedic extent)
I actually had flinching urges to try car jacking after playing GTA2 for 48 hours solid (better than studying at the time). Maybe I am weak.
Not a qt/gtk developer myself:
:-)
I think the issue is not to centralise some 'uability priesthood' that would oversee design decisions in an open source project, but to educate and motivate developers... I think this is happening to a degree.
There are many resources out there, such as apple, kde and gnome usability and style guides, but the whole issue of usability is so tightly bound into overall program design that a centralised group would do nothing.
A site that brought together all development resources for usability and allowed people to sign up as usability testers (d/l app, run, do tasks, report) and also sign up and usability report interpretters (convert the information into a concise usable format - like a bugzilla report) would be more usable, accessible and accepted by the majority of OSS devs in the world today.
The last thing you want is some guy saying : "You didn't want to do that, no, you wanted to do this!"
Now, I said I am not a qt/gtk/??? developer, but I feel that the libraries should be assessed to see if they allow for usability and ACCESSIBILITY at an easy level [IE, high contrast interfaces easy to develop and skin... I think this is the case right now.. again IANAQT/GTKD.]
ASIDE from that, the $40m of research for a blah blah custom interface?
That could mean anything! Like, lets blow $40m on some interns to boost our university image, and then get them to hack a VB program in a cold room while we ignore them, and then give the obligatory tatty report to the guy who gets paid enough not to read it...
LinkedList linkedList = new LinkedList();
Foo foo = new Foo();
linkedList.add(foo);
I guess this would be a little more productive than the 1 page of code you saw elsewhere. Unless of course you are makinga bsuiness out of selling linkedlists...
If you want to pay to re-invent the wheel, then go ahead.
BTW I am not looking for a job, but feel free to use the above code.
I used C# (asp.net) for 6 months solid, I mean 8-10 hours a day on a project, and to quote Bucky Katt, it spouts more shit than a prune taster with a stomach virus.
I am also interested in a complete mapping and routing solutions, especially with my upcoming GPS purchase, I really want to have not just a workable solution, but the best on the market.
I am not too bothered about sources, if it works, but price is an issue naturally. If it was open source but too expensive, then I would opt for a cheaper closed source version if it was as good.
Wow.
:-)
This really really shows something about todays society... I... I... COPY PASTE DAMN IT!!!!!!
hahahhaa.. seriously, I am worried.
Why are you even scared - so what if China is developing fast, has 1/6 the world population, you can just be thankful (if you like) that for the last few millenia they have been content stuck behind a wall.
:-) hahahahahahahahhaha laugh. Oh read Neuromancer and see for yourself the Asian overtones that sweep the entire future worlds.
I think China is interesting, they will grow rapidly, with ever increasing ties into Japan-tech and don't forget a little sporting event in 2008 that will wake up most of the western world to how great China is.
I wouldn't think for one moment China wants to barrage the US with bombs, I think barraging them with LCD's, Chips and assorted gadgetry will suffice.
Look what happened ot Japan after 2 nuclear bombs. They didn't reinvest into thier army, but in developing technology.
If in 4 years I here rhetorical war mongering amongst a (hopefully not, why not go and vote today?) Bush administration I will wonder what country they will hype up as a threat to world security in order to keep their little club in power.
You see, we have no right being scared, trying to hold back other countries. You cannot be anti-monopolistic and worry about China at the same time.
Fact: China will become a (the) world super power within 40 years, and export technology, culture and politics around the world.
I for one welcome our Chinese overlords...
Yes I like voddEscEsciddxi^H^H^H^H^H.
damn.
-1 no point - for assuming the person reading it has any clue what you are insinuating, implying or conveying.
OK - I have heard of CVS, what is your point?
Anything a little too 'heavy'politically should have a label, with a message of intent, else rather then needlessly brainwash our children with senseless violence, we might start brainwashing them with senseless politics!
Mothers will sue EA, Lucasarts and Infogramms for polluting thier childs mind.
"My child became a libertarian because of your computer games!"
"My child became gay because of a bug in Singles!" (although I think it supports this mode of 'co-habitation' not that I looked or even looked at the game... [seinfeld]Not that there is anything wrong with that[/seinfeld]
Next on Jerry Springer...
I started using Netbeans waaay back in the day, I had a few problems, but I liked the interface. I made the arduous chance to Eclipse, and it took a while, but slowly I got used to Eclipse.
.jar you have on the classpath. [rather than *mounting* source in netbeans.]
a ce_bust :-)
I always wanted to go back to Netbeans to see what they had, but always Eclipse was good enough - now!
And the refactoring blew me away, and speed, and SWeeTness.
The CVS integration was quirky since the beginning (when I used it) then matured. I have been using a 2003 build until about month ago, and I was almost lost again using it.
Well, I thought that was time ot check out Netbeans again, but I started developing some code out of office, and found myself using a twisted up machine at a local university - I smacked emacs and cygwin on, and after a couple of days hitting [End] instead of C^e I got into it...
Now I use emacs at work... it is like having a colonic for your mind... it cleans out all those things you were thinking about, and gets you back to the code level.
I still love eclipse and have about a million templates that go az, azz, azzz, qaz, qazza, zxc, zxczxc for doing all sorts of wierd and wonderful shortcuts. I love the accessibility of the information I need about libraries and attaching source to a
I have had about ~4 crashes in my workspace in one week when using some large projects (on a nightly I just happened to get):
so my dir looks like:
workspace
workspace_
workspace_backup
worksp
workspace_working_
I think using C^x-f and finding the source you need quickly, search the method name, read the method, is a bit more holistic then using the f3 all the time in eclipse...
So in one sense I love Eclipse, and always will, I shed many a tear for Netbeans, and promise myself to reinstall it. I hate JDeveloper 9, JBuilder I only used at The Big U, and EditPlus never fails!
For now I use emacs.
I forgot! And *I* am a Limey!! Not a Yank!!
:-)
Pome's, Limeys and Yanks...
Rather Limey than have Scurvey!
fuck me dead if I am lying :-) I like that expression.
Sorry my australian is only from half listening to about 3 episodes of Neighbours and Home and Away, and Crocodile Dundee.
Thanks for the lingo lesson!
What an unfortunate name. I agree with the kill him verdict, but you guys no my sentencing tends to reduce the head count a little excessively.
But kill him anyway. I feel like I need to read a decent in depth on this case, a few similar stories here and there don't do it for me. I would like to marinate this before I spill any blood.
Sausage inna bun? They're Luvvley! get them while they're hot!!
After I finished Moving Pictures again, next time of the clicks I bought a hot-dog and was puzzled to find that even in this multiverse sausage-inna-bun has a foamy bright pink texture that is probably pig...
Don't you mean pork?
Well, it *is* pig.
It was an optical read error! Gutenburg conjures up german speaking nations to me, and I was skim reading and well, the same applies.
Except the read through would be:
"Strewth mate, if yer not a bona-fide aussie then maybe you wanna go walkabout this arvo, because bang my wallaby, shielas gone and put some book of sorts on this interweb site, and you some limey outback wanderer from the creek trying to get it right? have a tinny and push off!"
Needs some work. creative commons license.
Oh dear I forgot that < and > don't work in /. - so you didn't see my sarcasm tags...
:-)
no hang on, I thought they were obvious.
Yes, I agree 15 years would cost the tax payer too much, just sling a rope over the dock and pull the chair away as the sentence is read
Just kidding! Fines for sure, and the defense lawers shouldn't be allowed to profit from this... I dunno... there is something about the people who send spam will figure a way of making money from getting convicted...
Why not have a simple piece of text 'if you are in Austria you can download this, otherwise, sorry, move on.'
This is the problem with the internet and local laws... annoying!
I hope (well I am sure) they will not take it down, but although the France / Yahoo! (or was it ebay?) case may be relevant, this might provide new precedents in dealing with such stuff.
I mean, I'd preffer to see Blown Away anyway, starring Rock!*
*: Century of the Fruitbat, Holy Wood.
There are a few Databases I would look at for a client.
Oracle...
DB2...
Now DB2 would be if they were already using DB2.
Not that Oracle is better, or that I trust them, but in computing if there are 100,000 other customers using it, you cannot be sure it will stand up for your usage.
So size does matter. [for databases, and male gentalia (sorry folks)]
I am not a database admin. I personally like MySQL and use it for my own development. I hate getting confused between the oracle way and the mysql way.
I have used it for about 6 years, I always grab a copy and need it for something other, even for mudding on Discworld this one time...
:-) Thanks developer type guys!
I don't think I ever visited the official site though...
Will have never seen a segway...
Using the Segway a candidate can reach three times the people compared to simply walking.
So they will discuss the segway, and perhaps hint that if they vote for them, maybe everyone can have one!
Yes, sure, you can have a go, but be quick I have a lot of houses to go to...