What are white kids good at? Taking advantage of minority kids?
It's hard to tell, because white are the majority in the US. You have to look at countries where whites are an immigrant minority. Apparently, we're good at hanging out in expat bars.
The funniest password restriction I heard of was for the VAX systems at my university in 1991. "Stop using foreign words in your passwords". Pondering the reasoning behind that rule is like a zen koan. The rule was rescinded a few days later.
"Abcd1234" is a perfectly acceptable password under most rule systems. It is 8 characters long (our *nix admins forced at least 8 characters in length, back when crypt made 8 the maximum technically possible), has no repeated letters, is a combination of letters and numbers, and has mixed case.
I also highly recommend Skritter if your goal is writing characters. Use an SRS program for reading, and Skritter for writing.
However, to budget your time, you should decide the relative importance of reading, writing, speaking and listening. In a language like Chinese, there is only limited overlap between each of these skills. A learner can be great at reading, but totally unable to speak or listen. Or, he can be great in conversation, but totally illiterate. You may also want to rethink the importance of handwriting. It may be nice to be able to write some characters to impress your friends, and at least understanding the stroke order and how characters in general are made up is useful. But being able to write freely without constantly checking a reference will be hard work, and will be taking away from the other 3 aforementioned skills. Also, without years of practice your writing will look like a 5-year old's. If you want to type Chinese characters, that's entirely different from handwriting, and is dead simple if you know the pinyin.
I would love it if SimEarth were open. It's still playable after all these years, and is also educational. But the graphics and update speed are miniscule.
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
Here's the GWT development cycle:
Use your favorite Java IDE to write and debug an application in the Java language, using as many (or as few) GWT libraries as you find useful.
Use GWT's Java-to-JavaScript compiler to distill your application into a set of JavaScript and HTML files that you can serve with any web server.
Confirm that your application works in each browser that you want to support, which usually takes no additional work.
You should have finished the story, but I'll spoil it for you. He hid the car, driving it to secluded spaces, and when they finally managed to follow him to it, it was missing the front seat.
Police search the CRX and find that the front passenger seat has recently been removed. The floor is soaked, as if it had been washed. There are heavy-duty garbage bags, cloth towels, masking tape, and two books: Masterpieces of Murder and Homicide. Police also find another drop of blood and match it to Nina.
That, I would call surprising. Yes, he is not proven guilty at this point, but if he can't provide good answers to this behavior, he's well on his way.
Re:Same with the ipods back when they hit 1 mil.
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If you saw someone walking down the street listening to a Zune you'd probably think it was an iPod with 3rd party headphones.
But... but... if you wore 3rd party headphones with an iPod, nobody would see that you had an iPod! Therefore, it's safe to assume that if the headphones aren't white, it ain't an iPod.
I strongly agree with this. Every episode makes me laugh so hard I get stomach cramps. There is also some justice in lonelygirl15 losing. Why the hell are people still interested in this??
She was in college for an entire month, and no one recognized her from the ad until someone looked up her name for an unrelated reason? Just where was this college anyway?
Rumsfeld: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always
interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there
are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns;
that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there
are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And
if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free
countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult
ones.
Everyone makes fun of this statement, but I think it's quite insightful. That is, no matter how many variables and probabilities you account for, to acknowledge that you don't know everything is a Platonic sort of wisdom. Of course, Rumsfeld's and the rest of the administration's hubris (remember Powell's "there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more."?) didn't have room for this consideration outside of this one statement, and the blundering move into Iraq is the disastrous effect of it.
Hey, where's all the love for Oracle's default format of DD-MON-YYYY (e.g., 12-OCT-2004)? Nowhere? Good. I know it's just presentation and can be changed, but who the hell wants their dates in this format. Setting the native format to something nobody else uses just forces every program to deal with it, either by changing the format template, or by doing a string conversion. Of course, the Oracle DBAs will tell you just to standardize on the DD-MON-YYYY format for all your data. Guess I'm stuck with TO_CHAR to handle dates reliably.
And could there be a worse way to sort dates after they've been converted to strings? I can't imagine any scenario where I would want to sort the first of every month together, with April and August ahead of every other month. Oh, I get it--it must having something to do with April 1st sorting to the top.
I think you missed a cultural reference there. The parent was probably refering to the South Park episode where Spielberg had re-done all his movies to digitally replace guns with walkie talkies, and Lucas had the entire cast of Empire Strikes Back digitally replaced by ewoks.
It's not run by the government. It's done by our friends, the MPAA. It's nominally voluntary, although you would have a hard time finding a theater to show your film if it wasn't rated. Government isn't involved at all, except to rattle their sabres when they feel enforcement is getting too lax.
Damn, put in one link to wikipedia, and the next thing I know I'm spending an hour on a dozen articles on stuff I've never heard before. Wikipedia links should come with a warning. It's like a time-sucking vortex.
Excuse me, now, while I go play some Mornington Crescent.
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Sometimes it's necessary to add the plus sign to force an exact match. "+TIPC layer3" may give you better results.
Isn't that nearly every story? This is just a moment of rare honesty.
I wonder how often you see specifically an odd prime number... since two is the only even prime, its really the oddest of the bunch.
The answer is:
"About 48,200 results (0.53 seconds)"
What are white kids good at? Taking advantage of minority kids?
It's hard to tell, because white are the majority in the US. You have to look at countries where whites are an immigrant minority. Apparently, we're good at hanging out in expat bars.
The funniest password restriction I heard of was for the VAX systems at my university in 1991. "Stop using foreign words in your passwords". Pondering the reasoning behind that rule is like a zen koan. The rule was rescinded a few days later.
"Abcd1234" is a perfectly acceptable password under most rule systems. It is 8 characters long (our *nix admins forced at least 8 characters in length, back when crypt made 8 the maximum technically possible), has no repeated letters, is a combination of letters and numbers, and has mixed case.
I also highly recommend Skritter if your goal is writing characters. Use an SRS program for reading, and Skritter for writing.
However, to budget your time, you should decide the relative importance of reading, writing, speaking and listening. In a language like Chinese, there is only limited overlap between each of these skills. A learner can be great at reading, but totally unable to speak or listen. Or, he can be great in conversation, but totally illiterate. You may also want to rethink the importance of handwriting. It may be nice to be able to write some characters to impress your friends, and at least understanding the stroke order and how characters in general are made up is useful. But being able to write freely without constantly checking a reference will be hard work, and will be taking away from the other 3 aforementioned skills. Also, without years of practice your writing will look like a 5-year old's. If you want to type Chinese characters, that's entirely different from handwriting, and is dead simple if you know the pinyin.
I would love it if SimEarth were open. It's still playable after all these years, and is also educational. But the graphics and update speed are miniscule.
Nie hao ma? Does it really help to speak Chinese with a Russian accent?
That's rhetorical, right? Then I shall answer you in kind: Are you new here?
She was in college for an entire month, and no one recognized her from the ad until someone looked up her name for an unrelated reason? Just where was this college anyway?
I almost couldn't tell who it was under all that airbrushing? I think FHM doesn't get why people find her attractive.
Remember when "beta" releases were for bug testing. Nowadays, it's for getting free R&D from the users.
What about the sole (both administrator and technical) contact for the entire Iraq domain?
That's amazing! You should write to James Randi. He has a cool million dollars waiting for you!
Hey, where's all the love for Oracle's default format of DD-MON-YYYY (e.g., 12-OCT-2004)? Nowhere? Good. I know it's just presentation and can be changed, but who the hell wants their dates in this format. Setting the native format to something nobody else uses just forces every program to deal with it, either by changing the format template, or by doing a string conversion. Of course, the Oracle DBAs will tell you just to standardize on the DD-MON-YYYY format for all your data. Guess I'm stuck with TO_CHAR to handle dates reliably.
And could there be a worse way to sort dates after they've been converted to strings? I can't imagine any scenario where I would want to sort the first of every month together, with April and August ahead of every other month. Oh, I get it--it must having something to do with April 1st sorting to the top.
I think you missed a cultural reference there. The parent was probably refering to the South Park episode where Spielberg had re-done all his movies to digitally replace guns with walkie talkies, and Lucas had the entire cast of Empire Strikes Back digitally replaced by ewoks.
It's not run by the government. It's done by our friends, the MPAA. It's nominally voluntary, although you would have a hard time finding a theater to show your film if it wasn't rated. Government isn't involved at all, except to rattle their sabres when they feel enforcement is getting too lax.
Damn, put in one link to wikipedia, and the next thing I know I'm spending an hour on a dozen articles on stuff I've never heard before. Wikipedia links should come with a warning. It's like a time-sucking vortex.
Excuse me, now, while I go play some Mornington Crescent.