Lojban has a ridiculously prescriptive grammar, and an inability to cope with ambiguity. Instead of adding qualifiers in a nondestructive way, it simply forbids ambiguity. Really expressive, yeah. Hell, many people can't even legally say their own NAME in Lojban.
> What I would like is for someone to say "The White House will no longer rewrite scientific reports made by agencies."
What I would like is for someone to say "The White House no longer has the power or authority to rewrite scientific reports made by agencies." With all due respect, I don't want to take their fucking word for it.
The only way I like to play Magic is with a big communal deck, originally built up from all the decks me and my friends bought and never turned into "power decks" (and now built up from pretty much all our cards). It takes a lot of extra "house rules" to compensate for the lack of coherence, but usually just allowing a bigger hand does it. In fact, every round tends to change the house rules around somewhat. As with most games, it's just so much more fun when it's not taken so seriously.
Well, I should qualify that... it's been more than 6 years since I moved, left all my cards behind, and haven't played since. Heck, for all I know there's now official rules for communal deck games (but I doubt it, it'd threaten the CCG business model). I'm kind of happy that MtG's reemerging somewhat in popularity, but I think I'll be staying behind this time.
Yeah I know it just sucks that Sun gives away millions of man-hours under the GPL but not every single last line of code they ever wrote. I mean who the hell do they think you are by not dedicating every resource they have to the service of free software instead of themselves?
You know why other consoles have the left analog stick offset? Because Nintendo did it that way. You know why Nintendo did it that way? Because the d-pad was the primary means of control on the older games, and they originally put that one stick in the MIDDLE.
Of course the controller you link to has just one d-pad for all the controls, so I guess all you prefer to play is 16-bit era games anyway. Those segas had a really nice pad though. And the one on the 360 makes the ps2's d-pad look like perfection.
Anyway, I have both a 360 and a PS2, and neither me with my rather large hands, nor my gf with her very tiny hands have a problem with either controller. Apparently 120 million other people think so too.
> We actually forbid the use of the "back" button, and where possible we disable it (it messes up our data integrity). We also hide the address bar.
Your application probably riddled with other data integrity problems if it can't handle back-buttoning if even just to display a error. Try fixing the app instead of the interface, because I guarantee you're going to have "legacy" users using it through a regular browser til the end of time. Seriously, I dealt with and solved that sort of issue 10 years ago, in a hobby project, in CGI scripts. It's not rocket science. You don't write a windows app that crashes if people close dialogs instead of clicking "ok", why design a web app that can't handle being used in a browser?
Prism looks like it gives us the feature of not being able to bookmark searches or pop open new windows/tabs per task. I first heard of it as "a framework by people who don't hate the web", but really, Prism looks like it hates most of the things that actually make web apps good.
> So 3 hours of troubleshooting later and I still can't play the game [Shadowrun] that I paid for with my hard earned dollars.
Microsoft is doing you a favor. Seriously, you should have checked the review sites: it's simply not at all a good game. It's got interesting mechanics, sure, but the maps and game modes all suck, and the bugs don't stop with the install or update process.
Well yeah, but that's a tautology. I was a Sony fan, but not a "fanboy", and the PS3 has basically turned me right off the brand. Not for the price, but the lack of compelling titles. Now I'm an Xbox fan.
Nintendo, on the other hand, creates crazed brand zealots -- and I mean in the good kind of way, in the Apple kind of way. That takes significantly more than just a big game catalog, and in fact Nintendo pulled it off with a rather small one. I'm not by any means a Nintendo fan, but I sure can appreciate their ability to build a brand.
The job that pays his bills is medical malpractice suits. He's pretty much arm in arm with actual ambulance chasers. In fact, worse, he's the guy chasing ambulances to see if he can wring money out of the EMTs in it.
MySQL Fulltext indexing is nothing less than a joke. Aside from its laughably poor configurability, its ridiculous stopword policy (anything in >50% of texts is considered a stopword), it only works on MyISAM. And to use it, you have to use some new mutant SQL keywords -- nothing like stored procedures. Oh yeah, get this, you can't customize the morphology, and it suggests separating all your data with delimiters instead. Hope you don't want to actually use it on Chinese or Japanese.
> It's been said that GIMP is one of the best Photoshop 3/4 clones around.
Except Photoshop 3 supported CMYK.
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I think as long as the program remains unattractive to professionals, they may as well keep the unattractive name. All the more incentive to fork the project, I guess, and it's got a built-in incentive to give it a new name.
Oh hey, they put in a new scheme interpreter, good for them. Clearly artists have been clamoring for THAT feature for ages now.
Now I don't speak for all Americans, but I guarantee I don't step too far outside the mainstream in my attitudes:
Kohjinsha SH8 Series UMPC
UMPC's in general are met with a big yawn here, and the iPhone may well kill them off for good. The integrated TV tuner is a pretty killer feature though, though the price of the average UMPC will still chase people away the same as it did for tablets.
Sony Rolly
We don't much like cutesy anthropomorphic gadgets in the USA. And there's other "jostleable" players out there, the Sansa Shaker comes to mind.
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In a stunning display of website usability, I see no way to navigate to the NEXT ad-filled crap-laden page. So this review gets cut short. Mercifully.
Probably because it's a decently-performing ISAM engine with builtin replication. It's not terribly safe (index file integrity is terribly brittle) or smart (it only recently learned there isn't such a date as Feb 30), but you can still at least write ad hoc queries to your tabular data. I doubt Google is using it for HR or CRM.
Actually, a navigation system for flying cars is a lot easier. No roads, you only need avoid other fliers, and you can stack the "lanes" several levels high. Flight mechanics might be hard, but a navigation system doesn't have to care.
It may be available on Steam, but if you get it for the PC, get a gamepad. It's very much a console game, and control with the mouse is awkward beyond belief. It shouldn't be allowed to ruin a great game though.
Speaking of Tim Schafer, when the hell are we going to see Grim Fandango on Steam?
> Still, if they fix the Meat Circus and its idiotic difficulty spike, the world will be a better place for it.
Oh jeebus, thanks for reminding me. After about the fiftieth time I fell into the water when trying to jump up[ the spiraling flaming nets, I just stopped playing. Almost all the way through one of my favorite games ever, and I just couldn't finish, because apparently they decided to make the endboss the fucking CAMERA. I haven't been so frustrated since the Hades Blades in God of War.
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Lojban has a ridiculously prescriptive grammar, and an inability to cope with ambiguity. Instead of adding qualifiers in a nondestructive way, it simply forbids ambiguity. Really expressive, yeah. Hell, many people can't even legally say their own NAME in Lojban.
Anagrym. I love it. OWL and ISO (International Organization for Standards) would be examples of TALs: Three Letter Anagryms.
I might actually settle for a president with the above qualities. It beats the current crop of psychopaths we have now.
You know, just because I can't design a car from scratch doesn't mean I'm unqualified to call a Yugo a piece of junk.
Jimmy Carter pronounced it "nook-yer", and he served on a nookyer submarine.
Of course with dubya, it's all about the word being a reminder of all his OTHER problems with, well, thinking.
> What I would like is for someone to say "The White House will no longer rewrite scientific reports made by agencies."
What I would like is for someone to say "The White House no longer has the power or authority to rewrite scientific reports made by agencies." With all due respect, I don't want to take their fucking word for it.
The only way I like to play Magic is with a big communal deck, originally built up from all the decks me and my friends bought and never turned into "power decks" (and now built up from pretty much all our cards). It takes a lot of extra "house rules" to compensate for the lack of coherence, but usually just allowing a bigger hand does it. In fact, every round tends to change the house rules around somewhat. As with most games, it's just so much more fun when it's not taken so seriously.
... it's been more than 6 years since I moved, left all my cards behind, and haven't played since. Heck, for all I know there's now official rules for communal deck games (but I doubt it, it'd threaten the CCG business model). I'm kind of happy that MtG's reemerging somewhat in popularity, but I think I'll be staying behind this time.
Well, I should qualify that
Yeah I know it just sucks that Sun gives away millions of man-hours under the GPL but not every single last line of code they ever wrote. I mean who the hell do they think you are by not dedicating every resource they have to the service of free software instead of themselves?
You know why other consoles have the left analog stick offset? Because Nintendo did it that way. You know why Nintendo did it that way? Because the d-pad was the primary means of control on the older games, and they originally put that one stick in the MIDDLE.
Of course the controller you link to has just one d-pad for all the controls, so I guess all you prefer to play is 16-bit era games anyway. Those segas had a really nice pad though. And the one on the 360 makes the ps2's d-pad look like perfection.
Anyway, I have both a 360 and a PS2, and neither me with my rather large hands, nor my gf with her very tiny hands have a problem with either controller. Apparently 120 million other people think so too.
> We actually forbid the use of the "back" button, and where possible we disable it (it messes up our data integrity). We also hide the address bar.
Your application probably riddled with other data integrity problems if it can't handle back-buttoning if even just to display a error. Try fixing the app instead of the interface, because I guarantee you're going to have "legacy" users using it through a regular browser til the end of time. Seriously, I dealt with and solved that sort of issue 10 years ago, in a hobby project, in CGI scripts. It's not rocket science. You don't write a windows app that crashes if people close dialogs instead of clicking "ok", why design a web app that can't handle being used in a browser?
Prism looks like it gives us the feature of not being able to bookmark searches or pop open new windows/tabs per task. I first heard of it as "a framework by people who don't hate the web", but really, Prism looks like it hates most of the things that actually make web apps good.
> So 3 hours of troubleshooting later and I still can't play the game [Shadowrun] that I paid for with my hard earned dollars.
Microsoft is doing you a favor. Seriously, you should have checked the review sites: it's simply not at all a good game. It's got interesting mechanics, sure, but the maps and game modes all suck, and the bugs don't stop with the install or update process.
> Sony fanboys still love the PS3.
Well yeah, but that's a tautology. I was a Sony fan, but not a "fanboy", and the PS3 has basically turned me right off the brand. Not for the price, but the lack of compelling titles. Now I'm an Xbox fan.
Nintendo, on the other hand, creates crazed brand zealots -- and I mean in the good kind of way, in the Apple kind of way. That takes significantly more than just a big game catalog, and in fact Nintendo pulled it off with a rather small one. I'm not by any means a Nintendo fan, but I sure can appreciate their ability to build a brand.
The job that pays his bills is medical malpractice suits. He's pretty much arm in arm with actual ambulance chasers. In fact, worse, he's the guy chasing ambulances to see if he can wring money out of the EMTs in it.
> Our documentation is far older than anything they have.
There's a few hundred million Hindus who want to talk to you about prior art. The Incas and Sumerians couldn't be reached for their perspective.
> 1. All common carriers must allow other providers to connect to them on a naked pipe
You do realize that ISPs are not common carriers, right?
> 2. All providers must support standard protocols.*
Great, I guess the IETF can disband, since it's now the US congress that really vets standards.
> 3. Providers may only prioritize data/bandwidth based on protocol, not orgin/destination.
So the head end video distributor node can't pre-empt your xbox's background downloads? I'm afraid the reality is more complicated.
> 5. No data/bandwidth throttling, only prioritization.
Guess how QoS actually works?
MySQL Fulltext indexing is nothing less than a joke. Aside from its laughably poor configurability, its ridiculous stopword policy (anything in >50% of texts is considered a stopword), it only works on MyISAM. And to use it, you have to use some new mutant SQL keywords -- nothing like stored procedures. Oh yeah, get this, you can't customize the morphology, and it suggests separating all your data with delimiters instead. Hope you don't want to actually use it on Chinese or Japanese.
Now go compare it to tsearch2.
> It's been said that GIMP is one of the best Photoshop 3/4 clones around.
Except Photoshop 3 supported CMYK.
I think as long as the program remains unattractive to professionals, they may as well keep the unattractive name. All the more incentive to fork the project, I guess, and it's got a built-in incentive to give it a new name.
Oh hey, they put in a new scheme interpreter, good for them. Clearly artists have been clamoring for THAT feature for ages now.
No, Brooklyn ends in "fuckin' a". Actually most things from there end in fuckin' a.
Yes, you are a diehard relational weenie. Codd would not approve of his theories being promoted as a Magical Golden Hammer to represent all data.
Documents are hierarchical by their nature. DOM has lousy syntax, but that doesn't make it the wrong data structure.
UMPC's in general are met with a big yawn here, and the iPhone may well kill them off for good. The integrated TV tuner is a pretty killer feature though, though the price of the average UMPC will still chase people away the same as it did for tablets.
We don't much like cutesy anthropomorphic gadgets in the USA. And there's other "jostleable" players out there, the Sansa Shaker comes to mind.
In a stunning display of website usability, I see no way to navigate to the NEXT ad-filled crap-laden page. So this review gets cut short. Mercifully.
Probably because it's a decently-performing ISAM engine with builtin replication. It's not terribly safe (index file integrity is terribly brittle) or smart (it only recently learned there isn't such a date as Feb 30), but you can still at least write ad hoc queries to your tabular data. I doubt Google is using it for HR or CRM.
Actually, a navigation system for flying cars is a lot easier. No roads, you only need avoid other fliers, and you can stack the "lanes" several levels high. Flight mechanics might be hard, but a navigation system doesn't have to care.
> Oh dear, how hard is it to type "sudo apt-get install xxxxxx" ?
sudo apt-get-install support-spdif-and-line-out-at-the-same-time
sudo apt-get-install make-the-fucking-wireless-drivers-work
yeah, didn't work for me either.
It may be available on Steam, but if you get it for the PC, get a gamepad. It's very much a console game, and control with the mouse is awkward beyond belief. It shouldn't be allowed to ruin a great game though.
Speaking of Tim Schafer, when the hell are we going to see Grim Fandango on Steam?
> Still, if they fix the Meat Circus and its idiotic difficulty spike, the world will be a better place for it.
Oh jeebus, thanks for reminding me. After about the fiftieth time I fell into the water when trying to jump up[ the spiraling flaming nets, I just stopped playing. Almost all the way through one of my favorite games ever, and I just couldn't finish, because apparently they decided to make the endboss the fucking CAMERA. I haven't been so frustrated since the Hades Blades in God of War.