If you are desperate for modern 2D Zelda titles, get a handheld console. However, for living room consoles, "Ocarina of Time" has shown that, if there is such a thing as a perfect Zelda game it probably has to be 3D. There are games that are just meant to be 2D, but Zelda is not among them.
That's not quite how it works. While it is true that most top athletes do have a genetic disposition for growing the right muscles for their sport, a whole lot of being an athlete is also environmental influence. This does not start at physical exercise and technology, it already starts with being fed properly as an infant. Genes merely provide the boundaries of our physical existence.
The people in North Korea don't grow shorter with each generation because there is a fast-forward Darwinian selection at work. It's as simple as the terrible living conditions most North Koreans have been living in for the past years.
I don't know seattle911.com, so I don't know if it's absolutely critical to have the data in real-time. But if not, just make the data available in the convenient format, but an hour or so later. As far-fetched as the terrorist scenario may sound, with this solution everybody could be happy, no? Or is this just another subtle reminder of the never-ending War on Terrer?
I feel a little uneasy pointing out the bleedingly obvious, but the vast majority of the EU does not speak native English and does not live in England which, according to wiki, is the main consument of spam in the EU. Or do you think it's coincidence that Monty Python, being British, invented the spam sketch? What the online "community" thinks about spam is made evident by a simple google search, and the result here seems very relevant because spam got its new meaning there.
Question is, do they want/have to be taken seriously by established politics? Maybe all they want is to raise public awareness of the matter, and as far as I can tell, they sure do. Add a little help from the so-called "real" politicians who succumb to foreign business pressure, and they don't have to do much at all to strengthen their agenda, if it can be called that.
And calling yourselves the 'pirate party' is just plain insane. Whats wrong with "the consumer rights' party? or do they realsie thats way too hypocritical.
According to the rest of your rant, 'honest' should come to your mind instead of 'hypocritical', because you don't perceive them as a "consumer rights party" anyway, or do you? It's an ironic statement on how they are perceived, playing with their underdog image. And people like you, obviously, would never see anything else than the "pirate" part, which is exactly why they are important, to constantly challenge such views.
Furthermore, I think the name is well chosen regardless, because can "The Consumers' Rights Party" get any more boring and non-descriptive? "The Pirate Party" is concise, provoking (to some), and easily remembered.
Was Mr. Jefferson saying that it's ok to write "youre" instead of "your" or "you're", or that poor minds are poor because they aren't a walking thesaurus? Or was he, by any chance, talking to me about the sound of a joke going over my head?
How can you tell whether nobody will use a new standard if it is significantly better than the old one? If you admit the old standard is crappy, why not even try for the better? Considering how tabs tend to break across platforms or even across applications, it already seems like everyone is doing what he wants anyway. Doing or not doing things because "that's the way it used to be and we don't want change because change is hard" just doesn't make sense, especially considering the fact that we're talking about computers. That's not exactly a field whose methods are carved into proverbial stone like, I don't know, metal smithing, pottery, or something ancient like that.
If you want that from an IDE, eclipse does that, and pretty robustly at that. I wouldn't want to miss it.
For more simple editors for a quick text edit, my favorite is EditPlus. It lets you choose between classical tabs and whitespace tabs, as how long (in characters) a tab in either mode should be treated, it has the auto-indent you mentioned, reacting to freely definable characters (for example, auto-indent forward after '{' or '(', and back after '}' or ')', respectively). Best of all, it lets you define these parameters independently for plain text, c/c++, java, HTML, Perl, etc., etc., as well as any number of custom syntaxes you may wish to import or define yourself. A small selection of useful features of a great tool. Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Editplus or the company behind it, just a happy user.
A blackbox like those in planes would be a lot better, cheaper, more accurate, reliable, standardizable, and would raise less privacy concerns than installing a bunch of cameras for visually recording all driver's actions and the surrounding traffic. A blackbox would just have to record the last, say, 10 minutes before an accident, parameters like the value of the speed indicator, actual speed of the individual tires, motor RPM, G-forces, steering angle, state of the electric system (blinkers, headlights, fog light,...) etc. pp.. Modern cars have so much electronics in them already: your basic Antilock Braking System, Electronic Stability Program, and whatnot.
There are so many data already available, but they're just discarded (after being processed by the various systems) or can be easily wiped by an accident. Instead they should be written on some cheap and durable storage medium. Even at 100 recorded parameters, 1 MB (times three drives for redundancy) should be more than sufficient for 10 minutes worth of recording at 2 or 3 data points per second. The drives themselves can be encased in a light, small, near-indestructible box (carbon fibers, special plastics, or just plain steel) which would then provide objective, highly valuable evidence (for a technical expert) in case of an accident.
The day all our problems end is the same day we go extinct. And in any case, since when were unsolved problems a barrier to a parallel approach? Should kids live at home and not move out until they have settled every major and minor conflict they had with their parents over the course of their about 20 years? Maybe moving out can be the solution?
Problem solving is really just a question of setting priorities. If someone solved global hunger and thirst, poverty, the fossil fuel dilemma, overpopulation, global warming, and whatnot by tomorrow, then the day after the obligatory binge we could (and would) instantly come up with the next dozen problems on the list that supposedly should keep us shackled to Earth. Then another dozen and then some more. Has it ever occurred to you that space exploration and the required technological/economical/political progress might be a big part of the solution to problems on our homeworld? If nothing else, colonizing space should give everyone a fresh perspective (figuratively) on Earth and its problems.
I mean, those who make beer their top priority would hardly be able to articulate this order of priorities. Or were available for polling, being drunk and all.
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If you are desperate for modern 2D Zelda titles, get a handheld console. However, for living room consoles, "Ocarina of Time" has shown that, if there is such a thing as a perfect Zelda game it probably has to be 3D. There are games that are just meant to be 2D, but Zelda is not among them.
considering the track record of failed missions.
To which I say...
:)
I've been wating a while to place this one, but the hour has finally come
That's not quite how it works. While it is true that most top athletes do have a genetic disposition for growing the right muscles for their sport, a whole lot of being an athlete is also environmental influence. This does not start at physical exercise and technology, it already starts with being fed properly as an infant. Genes merely provide the boundaries of our physical existence.
The people in North Korea don't grow shorter with each generation because there is a fast-forward Darwinian selection at work. It's as simple as the terrible living conditions most North Koreans have been living in for the past years.
Isn't such stuff usually submitted as an Ask Slashdot?
I don't know seattle911.com, so I don't know if it's absolutely critical to have the data in real-time. But if not, just make the data available in the convenient format, but an hour or so later. As far-fetched as the terrorist scenario may sound, with this solution everybody could be happy, no? Or is this just another subtle reminder of the never-ending War on Terrer?
I feel a little uneasy pointing out the bleedingly obvious, but the vast majority of the EU does not speak native English and does not live in England which, according to wiki, is the main consument of spam in the EU. Or do you think it's coincidence that Monty Python, being British, invented the spam sketch? What the online "community" thinks about spam is made evident by a simple google search, and the result here seems very relevant because spam got its new meaning there.
Let's hope those communist aliens don't ALL run Linux or they'll be out of luck.
"Nothing for you to see here. Move along."
The Neo-Vickys will put all their resources into stopping them.
Question is, do they want/have to be taken seriously by established politics? Maybe all they want is to raise public awareness of the matter, and as far as I can tell, they sure do. Add a little help from the so-called "real" politicians who succumb to foreign business pressure, and they don't have to do much at all to strengthen their agenda, if it can be called that.
And calling yourselves the 'pirate party' is just plain insane. Whats wrong with "the consumer rights' party? or do they realsie thats way too hypocritical.
According to the rest of your rant, 'honest' should come to your mind instead of 'hypocritical', because you don't perceive them as a "consumer rights party" anyway, or do you? It's an ironic statement on how they are perceived, playing with their underdog image. And people like you, obviously, would never see anything else than the "pirate" part, which is exactly why they are important, to constantly challenge such views.
Furthermore, I think the name is well chosen regardless, because can "The Consumers' Rights Party" get any more boring and non-descriptive? "The Pirate Party" is concise, provoking (to some), and easily remembered.
Was Mr. Jefferson saying that it's ok to write "youre" instead of "your" or "you're", or that poor minds are poor because they aren't a walking thesaurus? Or was he, by any chance, talking to me about the sound of a joke going over my head?
Let me guess: You were IP-banned for language?
How can you tell whether nobody will use a new standard if it is significantly better than the old one? If you admit the old standard is crappy, why not even try for the better? Considering how tabs tend to break across platforms or even across applications, it already seems like everyone is doing what he wants anyway. Doing or not doing things because "that's the way it used to be and we don't want change because change is hard" just doesn't make sense, especially considering the fact that we're talking about computers. That's not exactly a field whose methods are carved into proverbial stone like, I don't know, metal smithing, pottery, or something ancient like that.
Anyone know of an editor that has this?
If you want that from an IDE, eclipse does that, and pretty robustly at that. I wouldn't want to miss it.
For more simple editors for a quick text edit, my favorite is EditPlus. It lets you choose between classical tabs and whitespace tabs, as how long (in characters) a tab in either mode should be treated, it has the auto-indent you mentioned, reacting to freely definable characters (for example, auto-indent forward after '{' or '(', and back after '}' or ')', respectively). Best of all, it lets you define these parameters independently for plain text, c/c++, java, HTML, Perl, etc., etc., as well as any number of custom syntaxes you may wish to import or define yourself. A small selection of useful features of a great tool. Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Editplus or the company behind it, just a happy user.
A blackbox like those in planes would be a lot better, cheaper, more accurate, reliable, standardizable, and would raise less privacy concerns than installing a bunch of cameras for visually recording all driver's actions and the surrounding traffic. A blackbox would just have to record the last, say, 10 minutes before an accident, parameters like the value of the speed indicator, actual speed of the individual tires, motor RPM, G-forces, steering angle, state of the electric system (blinkers, headlights, fog light,...) etc. pp.. Modern cars have so much electronics in them already: your basic Antilock Braking System, Electronic Stability Program, and whatnot.
There are so many data already available, but they're just discarded (after being processed by the various systems) or can be easily wiped by an accident. Instead they should be written on some cheap and durable storage medium. Even at 100 recorded parameters, 1 MB (times three drives for redundancy) should be more than sufficient for 10 minutes worth of recording at 2 or 3 data points per second. The drives themselves can be encased in a light, small, near-indestructible box (carbon fibers, special plastics, or just plain steel) which would then provide objective, highly valuable evidence (for a technical expert) in case of an accident.
Or "masturbated".
Wouldn't that be "masturbaited", then?
Return to them, via email, all .mp3s you ever obtained without paying.
:)
I know, old hat, but still funny
The day all our problems end is the same day we go extinct. And in any case, since when were unsolved problems a barrier to a parallel approach? Should kids live at home and not move out until they have settled every major and minor conflict they had with their parents over the course of their about 20 years? Maybe moving out can be the solution?
Problem solving is really just a question of setting priorities. If someone solved global hunger and thirst, poverty, the fossil fuel dilemma, overpopulation, global warming, and whatnot by tomorrow, then the day after the obligatory binge we could (and would) instantly come up with the next dozen problems on the list that supposedly should keep us shackled to Earth. Then another dozen and then some more. Has it ever occurred to you that space exploration and the required technological/economical/political progress might be a big part of the solution to problems on our homeworld? If nothing else, colonizing space should give everyone a fresh perspective (figuratively) on Earth and its problems.
I'm sure, for $500K you could easily hire someone to rush it for you, no?
Pay him/her well (but no better than $500K), bag the difference, Profit!!!
$1 for each day of development?
I mean, those who make beer their top priority would hardly be able to articulate this order of priorities. Or were available for polling, being drunk and all.
They say it may even help understand how to contain the plasmas needed for nuclear fusion.
Almost the best excuse to have fun, second only to reproduction.
Well, there's always the string-based retrieval method...