They wanted "over 9000" but unfortunately didn't come close to that number.
Though I don't see what's wrong with saying "over 90." It implies somewhere greater than 90 and less than 100. If they said "exactly 94" then we would be arguing over why they said such a specific number in this context.
The age of the domain name is over in my opinion. People find information by going through search engines, I would guess a very small population still types www.whatiwant.com when surfing. They would have learned their lesson a long time ago that that's not a smart idea.
Just get a domain name that's slightly relevant to your topic or service, and you're fine. Google magic will do the rest.
Well, it's biggest advantage is that it is a language written to run on the JVM*. You can talk to Java classes when you need to, but it's really a dynamic language that Java developers can easily learn and use. Type can be strong or weak depending on what you want/need, you can write Groovy unit tests against Java code, etc.
*of course there's Jython, but Groovy was designed from the ground up to be used by Java developers.
The game is essentially about a boy and his horse, and the insurmountable challenges they face together. Think about that Viggo Mortensen film Hidalgo, but place it in a more lush, green world, and a whole lot less talking.
This really has me worried, I loved Shadow of the Colossus, the game was great because every boss was a whole level in itself. Whether you were climbing them or riding them or whatever, it was awesome. I don't know how a movie could capture this.
The game does not fit into the Lord of the Rings style blockbuster. It has just a few, quiet characters, a mysterious central castle, and lots of worlds to explore with just your horse. About the only thing that's similar is you could film SotC in New Zealand like LotR and there's bows and arrows.
Or add two more wheels, a couple more seats, a larger engine, and enclose it so you're better protected at higher speeds...
Obviously this is just GM wasting more (of my) money. A cell phone acting as the dashboard? Some proprietary wireless communication between pumas? Destined to fail.
You jest but that's the point, caffeine is a drug. Drugs in moderation aren't necessarily bad, it's the abuse of them that causes problems. I think we're just lucky that caffeine's lows aren't nearly as bad as other drugs. But that's why most people don't use Speed for their morning kick.
We used to use Pidgin at work, and they allowed outside protocols like AIM. The only caveat was that you knew they were logging your conversations and when you started chatting with someone over AIM, your friend would get a message like "You are chatting with someone on X's server and your conversations are being logged."
Just that warning was usually enough to deter people from messing around on it too much.
Now we use a home grown solution... it seriously sucks, but I think they actually sell it to other companies so I'm not going to mention its name. At least the good thing about it is that everyone uses this protocol, so that you can essentially find and chat with anyone in the company.
Speaking of Zelda Ocarina of Time, what about Swordless Link (this very well may be talked about in TFA but I'm not going to click through 10 pages to find out)?
During the game, your character Link had his sword essentially the entire game, especially as an adult. But during the final battle against Gannon (ban), he would knock your sword out of your hands to force you to use another weapon in your inventory to fight back. Now if you came prepared, you could just equip the Biggoran sword and whallop away, but that's not fun.
So in the middle of the fight, you don't have a sword, so what do you do? Save and reset! The game retains what you have equipped and when you come back, you'll be hanging out without any sword equipped (impossible to do manually in the game). So now that you don't have a sword, you can do some crazy stuff that the game doesn't anticipate. Most of the coolest stuff involves getting on your horse Epona and using any item you want while riding around. The game typically limits you to just your bow and arrow, so all of a sudden your options are huge.
Fun stuff.
Also in the Zelda Universe, we have Link's Awakening for the original Game Boy. The game was grid based like the classic Legend of Zelda. In Link's Awakening, pressing Select would bring up the overworld map. If you pressed Select just as you were moving from one screen to another, you would warp to the far side of the screen in the same position you were just standing in. You could do some crazy sequence breaking using this glitch, or get yourself stuck in a tree.
Great post, don't have time to get to it all, but I don't consider Java bloated in terms of performance, more like all the libraries that are left over from the early 1.0, 1.1 days. Tons of stuff is deprecated but never removed. There's a lot of old school collections out there like Stack which have been replaced by Deque.
I don't have enough.NET experience to really know what Java is all missing, so maybe I should do some research on that.
There's some actual variations on this, whether it's Gulching or trying to form a Minarchist nation, it has been attempted. I'm sure there actually are gulching communities out there...
Not sure if you're sarcastic, but it actually does sound like paradise to me.
Many devs see a Java language freeze as a good thing. Java is incredibly feature rich, some/most would say bloated. The JVM is the future, over 200 languages can run on it last I heard, Java pretty much needs closures and it would be the ultimate lingua franca for the JVM.
I remember "buying" my Gmail account back in June of 2004 as the invitations started flowing out. Something like three bucks on Ebay got me my account that I still use today. I'm not going to say it was the best three dollars I ever spent because I probably could have gotten a free invite like a week later, but it definitely is the best email client I've ever used. Heck, maybe the best single site besides the great Google.com itself.
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.tv is a country domain who just take advantage of their suffix to make lots of money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu
Yeah, I thought about that after posting this, does twitter make any sense? Nah, but it works. So yeah, just buy whatever is left and is short.
Submarines and sonar is useful for a lot more than just wartime. Check out the wikipedia page for a ton of uses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar#Civilian_Applications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar#Scientific_applications
Maybe the porn industry will all chip in for the .xxx TLD so that anyone can easily do site:.xxx in their Google search to... narrow things down.
They wanted "over 9000" but unfortunately didn't come close to that number.
Though I don't see what's wrong with saying "over 90." It implies somewhere greater than 90 and less than 100. If they said "exactly 94" then we would be arguing over why they said such a specific number in this context.
The age of the domain name is over in my opinion. People find information by going through search engines, I would guess a very small population still types www.whatiwant.com when surfing. They would have learned their lesson a long time ago that that's not a smart idea.
Just get a domain name that's slightly relevant to your topic or service, and you're fine. Google magic will do the rest.
Well, it's biggest advantage is that it is a language written to run on the JVM*. You can talk to Java classes when you need to, but it's really a dynamic language that Java developers can easily learn and use. Type can be strong or weak depending on what you want/need, you can write Groovy unit tests against Java code, etc.
*of course there's Jython, but Groovy was designed from the ground up to be used by Java developers.
The game is essentially about a boy and his horse, and the insurmountable challenges they face together. Think about that Viggo Mortensen film Hidalgo, but place it in a more lush, green world, and a whole lot less talking.
This really has me worried, I loved Shadow of the Colossus, the game was great because every boss was a whole level in itself. Whether you were climbing them or riding them or whatever, it was awesome. I don't know how a movie could capture this.
The game does not fit into the Lord of the Rings style blockbuster. It has just a few, quiet characters, a mysterious central castle, and lots of worlds to explore with just your horse. About the only thing that's similar is you could film SotC in New Zealand like LotR and there's bows and arrows.
Or add two more wheels, a couple more seats, a larger engine, and enclose it so you're better protected at higher speeds...
Obviously this is just GM wasting more (of my) money. A cell phone acting as the dashboard? Some proprietary wireless communication between pumas? Destined to fail.
And there's more than enough of them!
Drugs are bad, m-kay?
You jest but that's the point, caffeine is a drug. Drugs in moderation aren't necessarily bad, it's the abuse of them that causes problems. I think we're just lucky that caffeine's lows aren't nearly as bad as other drugs. But that's why most people don't use Speed for their morning kick.
Yeah, games like Call of Duty never sold well.
We used to use Pidgin at work, and they allowed outside protocols like AIM. The only caveat was that you knew they were logging your conversations and when you started chatting with someone over AIM, your friend would get a message like "You are chatting with someone on X's server and your conversations are being logged."
Just that warning was usually enough to deter people from messing around on it too much.
Now we use a home grown solution... it seriously sucks, but I think they actually sell it to other companies so I'm not going to mention its name. At least the good thing about it is that everyone uses this protocol, so that you can essentially find and chat with anyone in the company.
No Grok? I know that it isn't necessarily a sciency word, but at least it isn't boring like deep space.
I agree with you, and have been thinking about writing a Greasemonkey script to fix this, if one already hasn't been written.
The one list to rule them all is EasyList, formally maintained by the aforementioned deceased.
I seem to remember Vanish X-Zone to be even more reliable, though it may be the other way around.
Speaking of Zelda Ocarina of Time, what about Swordless Link (this very well may be talked about in TFA but I'm not going to click through 10 pages to find out)?
During the game, your character Link had his sword essentially the entire game, especially as an adult. But during the final battle against Gannon (ban), he would knock your sword out of your hands to force you to use another weapon in your inventory to fight back. Now if you came prepared, you could just equip the Biggoran sword and whallop away, but that's not fun.
So in the middle of the fight, you don't have a sword, so what do you do? Save and reset! The game retains what you have equipped and when you come back, you'll be hanging out without any sword equipped (impossible to do manually in the game). So now that you don't have a sword, you can do some crazy stuff that the game doesn't anticipate. Most of the coolest stuff involves getting on your horse Epona and using any item you want while riding around. The game typically limits you to just your bow and arrow, so all of a sudden your options are huge.
Fun stuff.
Also in the Zelda Universe, we have Link's Awakening for the original Game Boy. The game was grid based like the classic Legend of Zelda. In Link's Awakening, pressing Select would bring up the overworld map. If you pressed Select just as you were moving from one screen to another, you would warp to the far side of the screen in the same position you were just standing in. You could do some crazy sequence breaking using this glitch, or get yourself stuck in a tree.
Great post, don't have time to get to it all, but I don't consider Java bloated in terms of performance, more like all the libraries that are left over from the early 1.0, 1.1 days. Tons of stuff is deprecated but never removed. There's a lot of old school collections out there like Stack which have been replaced by Deque.
I don't have enough .NET experience to really know what Java is all missing, so maybe I should do some research on that.
A well-rounded isolated community would be self-sufficient for daily needs.
And calling someone an idiot because they'd rather be left alone by the government? I'm sorry I consider my life my own and only my own.
There's some actual variations on this, whether it's Gulching or trying to form a Minarchist nation, it has been attempted. I'm sure there actually are gulching communities out there...
Not sure if you're sarcastic, but it actually does sound like paradise to me.
My coworkers and I actually had a discussion last week on whether our corporation is "too big too fail" for the US government. It kind of made me sad.
Oh man, I want this dang achievement, otherwise it will hang over my head forever!
Many devs see a Java language freeze as a good thing. Java is incredibly feature rich, some/most would say bloated. The JVM is the future, over 200 languages can run on it last I heard, Java pretty much needs closures and it would be the ultimate lingua franca for the JVM.
I remember "buying" my Gmail account back in June of 2004 as the invitations started flowing out. Something like three bucks on Ebay got me my account that I still use today. I'm not going to say it was the best three dollars I ever spent because I probably could have gotten a free invite like a week later, but it definitely is the best email client I've ever used. Heck, maybe the best single site besides the great Google.com itself.