I've been an editor (copy editor, proofreader, senior editor, etc.) for 10 years now. One space.
Oh yeah? I've been a typer for 25+ years now. Two spaces (but HTML will render it as one without manual spacing which has always bugged me since 1994).
So you can learn a new programming language every year, and learn about new hardware every month, but you can't learn how to use a new definition to an old word two or three times in a lifetime? Quetzalcoatl. (that's my new pejorative. I doubt any Aztecs will object)
Give it up. The word is a pejorative now. The public has spoken. The Flintstones can't "have a gay old time" anymore without kids snickering at the lyrics. Words change over time. Hacker now means what cracker used to mean. Hardware hobbyist now means what hacker used to mean.
Scenes that are so "blah" that I don't notice are not what I remember afterward. I can remember my excitement during 5th Element's blended cutscenes, thinking that they did a great job. I still remember them quite well, and the fact that I was excited. Good Will Hunting only broke the 4th wall once for me:"Huh, Robin Williams is playing a serious role again" And that's all I remember about that movie.
The funny part about Jar-Jar is he was touted as "Ooh! All-CG character!" and now he looks like a TRON Recognizer compared to today's CG. Lucas should have stuck with Muppets. Even the Chadra-fan in the Ep4 cantina scene looks more real.
They could at least make an unrealistic game that's inspirational in a relevant way.
Yes. Explore for mineral deposits on the moon with robots. Launch to the moon (make entire travel into a cutscene, "days later"). Land on the moon (Lunar lander style game), aim for mineral deposits and good building sites. Build on the moon (mineral collection and building similar to Warcraft2 easiness or maybe Settlers of Catan [other countries land at the same time, mineral trade is required]). Use Moon base to launch to Mars. Repeat Moon sequence on Mars, then Terraform Mars. Mars changes from a "red star" in Earth's night sky to a "blue star". Yay!
Oh, wow, a 3-gigabyte drive! How futuristic!
Seriously, what sort of monkey messed the article up this badly?
Yeah, seriously. I thought we agreed on using Gibibytes from now on, right?
I actually make the TB/GB mistake regularly, and people either don't catch it, inserting TB because they know I'm talking about a low (<10) number or they just don't bother to mention it because they can reason out what I meant. That's one of the nice things about having 1000 or 1024 as a separation point in the naming hierarchy.
you don't have enough real criminals to catch. Gotcha. This is good news! It means we will cut your budget by 1/3 and after one year
I don't know about you, but when I play MOO#, MOM, or Civ# and see that crime/spies/corruption/angry citizens are reduced, I don't sell the police stations, lower spy defense, or raise taxes again (unless I've cast "Stream of Life", then taxes go to 100%).
How would they grab him off the street? He's secured by multiple three-letter agencies who won't let him out of his sight. The pissed-off Taliban sympathizer has no chance to take their boy just like that.
No need to grab him. Just kill him. He probably stupidly gave people a "if anything happens to me" clause. Terrorist/Russian Spy/Chinese Spy/NK Spy/E. coli kills him... encryption key released... Now everyone can see the dirty bits. He just put a big fat target on his head.
1) Kill Boar
2) Irradiate it
3) Sell to German government
4) PROFIT!!!!111!!!
Irradiated =/= Radioactive. Radioactive things can irradiate other things. Irradiated things _very_ rarely are ever radioactive. This is why irradiating food to kill pathogens should be more accepted, but the radioactive/irradiated conflation is what keeps the public fearful of irradiated food.
Just be glad we haven't shifted into an entirely different paradigm like functional or quantum. Multi-threading or cluster-computing is about as close as you'll come to weird tricks. Other than that, loops are still loops, conditionals are still conditionals, and functions are functions. You'll figure out the details without issue.
Are students who fail to learn via old school methods only in school because the tech helped them get there? Are they only capableof learning one way? Sounds like they deserve to fail?
It could be worse... the GIMP developers could have built it, in which case it would be a mostly working implementation of half the features of some existing software. However, nobody would realize this since only the developers would be able to comprehend the UI.
If you don't like the GUI, there's always the Lisp interface. If another OSS project gets named after a disability, I'm sure the gimp devs will incorporate it somehow.
My car doesn't require me to create a new key every 30 days.
Because a thief just needs to break the window. A car key is kind of like a password on a non-physically locked down computer, or one where the passwordless guest account has admin access.
We could have a company with no IT department. Oh it wouldn't run nearly as well, because you are an important SUPPORT function. But it would still bumble along somehow.
Maybe at a small business, but just try running a 50+ sized business without any IT. Your company would probably run swimmingly for the first year, have virus problems the next, catastrophic hardware failures and data loss the third, and then you'd sell the old computers without wiping the harddrives, and your business would then face legal troubles. IT may be a support role, but it's a mid-high educated support role, like a paralegal or a nurse (and a lot of us have a Masters in CS, but just don't like programming). Stop treating us like ditchdiggers. BTW, did you find that token yet? We can't get you back on the network with out it.
Are you thinking something sugary and hallmarkesque, like the PR that "administrative professional's day"(formerly for appreciation of secretaries, now renamed) gets, or something more along the lines of "We route your packets, we back-up your documents, we administer your databases, we install your drivers. We maintain your uptime while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us. "?
The latter please. The bit actors from the Sopranos are probably looking for some easy ad money.
Can I develop software using the iPad as a platform? Nope - not easily.
Yes, you can. Maybe not compiled stuff, but writing javascript stuff works, and plenty of nice quick programs I've written through the years were web-based. You can also SSH into your LAMP server or RDP into your IIS server, and use vi/notepad there, but that's sorta like cheating.
Can I play World of Warcraft on an iPad? Nope - not really.
I'll be glad when my friends give up WoW and start Role Playing or playing other computer games again. ^&@$ing money sink
Can I watch a high quality movie on an iPad? I suspect not really.
I suspect you've never even seen one. You can't watch 1080p high Definition movies, but a friend watched three high Quality movies on his plane flight home and still had 50% battery.
So what's left? Telephone calls and texting.
On an iPad? It's not a phone... Me::Fail I didn't check to see if this is copypasta. I'm sure it is now.
That said, I hate iPad and its "this is the new computing" BS to its very core. I just hate lying and misrepresentation more.
Except that is entirely different. That is mostly what google street view does (except expanded with view bubbles). That is simply a long panorama. Google Street View is a panorama + 360 view bubbles.
Street Slide takes Street View-like view bubbles and intelligently stitches them back into a panorama for getting a good spatial map of an area. Then when you need to zoom back in, it pushes you into the correct bubble. It is much easier for a person to view and use than either of the previous models.
So what you are saying is that the panorama that is created by stitching image slices together (a la Dr. Zheng et al)...
Technology Review explains that Street Slide stitches together slices from multiple panoramas,
...has hyperlinks on it that bring it to a Google bubble view. I give props to Microsoft for putting peanutbutter in their chocolate, but they didn't do a lot of inventing here.
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I've been an editor (copy editor, proofreader, senior editor, etc.) for 10 years now. One space.
Oh yeah? I've been a typer for 25+ years now. Two spaces (but HTML will render it as one without manual spacing which has always bugged me since 1994).
When are they going to be added to that grey-skinned body-blob hot-or-not site that was featured here a few months ago?
So you can learn a new programming language every year, and learn about new hardware every month, but you can't learn how to use a new definition to an old word two or three times in a lifetime? Quetzalcoatl. (that's my new pejorative. I doubt any Aztecs will object)
Give it up. The word is a pejorative now. The public has spoken. The Flintstones can't "have a gay old time" anymore without kids snickering at the lyrics. Words change over time. Hacker now means what cracker used to mean. Hardware hobbyist now means what hacker used to mean.
they didn't try to sell it to Thadeus Venture.
Scenes that are so "blah" that I don't notice are not what I remember afterward. I can remember my excitement during 5th Element's blended cutscenes, thinking that they did a great job. I still remember them quite well, and the fact that I was excited. Good Will Hunting only broke the 4th wall once for me:"Huh, Robin Williams is playing a serious role again" And that's all I remember about that movie.
The funny part about Jar-Jar is he was touted as "Ooh! All-CG character!" and now he looks like a TRON Recognizer compared to today's CG. Lucas should have stuck with Muppets. Even the Chadra-fan in the Ep4 cantina scene looks more real.
They could at least make an unrealistic game that's inspirational in a relevant way.
Yes. Explore for mineral deposits on the moon with robots. Launch to the moon (make entire travel into a cutscene, "days later"). Land on the moon (Lunar lander style game), aim for mineral deposits and good building sites. Build on the moon (mineral collection and building similar to Warcraft2 easiness or maybe Settlers of Catan [other countries land at the same time, mineral trade is required]). Use Moon base to launch to Mars. Repeat Moon sequence on Mars, then Terraform Mars. Mars changes from a "red star" in Earth's night sky to a "blue star". Yay!
No it isn't!
Yes it is!
this isn't an argument! You're just contradicting.
Oh, wow, a 3-gigabyte drive! How futuristic!
Seriously, what sort of monkey messed the article up this badly?
Yeah, seriously. I thought we agreed on using Gibibytes from now on, right?
I actually make the TB/GB mistake regularly, and people either don't catch it, inserting TB because they know I'm talking about a low (<10) number or they just don't bother to mention it because they can reason out what I meant. That's one of the nice things about having 1000 or 1024 as a separation point in the naming hierarchy.
I forget can some one remind me what P.D.F. stands for again?
Programmable Digital-executable Format
And they've almost got every means of binary execution crammed in.
you don't have enough real criminals to catch. Gotcha. This is good news! It means we will cut your budget by 1/3 and after one year
I don't know about you, but when I play MOO#, MOM, or Civ# and see that crime/spies/corruption/angry citizens are reduced, I don't sell the police stations, lower spy defense, or raise taxes again (unless I've cast "Stream of Life", then taxes go to 100%).
How would they grab him off the street? He's secured by multiple three-letter agencies who won't let him out of his sight. The pissed-off Taliban sympathizer has no chance to take their boy just like that.
No need to grab him. Just kill him. He probably stupidly gave people a "if anything happens to me" clause. Terrorist/Russian Spy/Chinese Spy/NK Spy/E. coli kills him... encryption key released... Now everyone can see the dirty bits. He just put a big fat target on his head.
No question marks in this one
1) Kill Boar
2) Irradiate it
3) Sell to German government
4) PROFIT!!!!111!!!
Irradiated =/= Radioactive. Radioactive things can irradiate other things. Irradiated things _very_ rarely are ever radioactive. This is why irradiating food to kill pathogens should be more accepted, but the radioactive/irradiated conflation is what keeps the public fearful of irradiated food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Hogs
Just be glad we haven't shifted into an entirely different paradigm like functional or quantum. Multi-threading or cluster-computing is about as close as you'll come to weird tricks. Other than that, loops are still loops, conditionals are still conditionals, and functions are functions. You'll figure out the details without issue.
Are students who fail to learn via old school methods only in school because the tech helped them get there? Are they only capableof learning one way? Sounds like they deserve to fail?
It could be worse... the GIMP developers could have built it, in which case it would be a mostly working implementation of half the features of some existing software. However, nobody would realize this since only the developers would be able to comprehend the UI.
If you don't like the GUI, there's always the Lisp interface. If another OSS project gets named after a disability, I'm sure the gimp devs will incorporate it somehow.
My car doesn't require me to create a new key every 30 days.
Because a thief just needs to break the window. A car key is kind of like a password on a non-physically locked down computer, or one where the passwordless guest account has admin access.
Now I'm going to have thoughts of Mario wearing a turtleneck for the rest of the day. Thanks a lot.
We could have a company with no IT department. Oh it wouldn't run nearly as well, because you are an important SUPPORT function. But it would still bumble along somehow.
Maybe at a small business, but just try running a 50+ sized business without any IT. Your company would probably run swimmingly for the first year, have virus problems the next, catastrophic hardware failures and data loss the third, and then you'd sell the old computers without wiping the harddrives, and your business would then face legal troubles. IT may be a support role, but it's a mid-high educated support role, like a paralegal or a nurse (and a lot of us have a Masters in CS, but just don't like programming). Stop treating us like ditchdiggers. BTW, did you find that token yet? We can't get you back on the network with out it.
Are you thinking something sugary and hallmarkesque, like the PR that "administrative professional's day"(formerly for appreciation of secretaries, now renamed) gets, or something more along the lines of "We route your packets, we back-up your documents, we administer your databases, we install your drivers. We maintain your uptime while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us. "?
The latter please. The bit actors from the Sopranos are probably looking for some easy ad money.
Can I develop software using the iPad as a platform? Nope - not easily.
Yes, you can. Maybe not compiled stuff, but writing javascript stuff works, and plenty of nice quick programs I've written through the years were web-based. You can also SSH into your LAMP server or RDP into your IIS server, and use vi/notepad there, but that's sorta like cheating.
Can I play World of Warcraft on an iPad? Nope - not really.
I'll be glad when my friends give up WoW and start Role Playing or playing other computer games again. ^&@$ing money sink
Can I watch a high quality movie on an iPad? I suspect not really.
I suspect you've never even seen one. You can't watch 1080p high Definition movies, but a friend watched three high Quality movies on his plane flight home and still had 50% battery.
So what's left? Telephone calls and texting.
On an iPad? It's not a phone... Me::Fail I didn't check to see if this is copypasta. I'm sure it is now.
That said, I hate iPad and its "this is the new computing" BS to its very core. I just hate lying and misrepresentation more.
Bizzare behavior sounds more like a #i pencil
Except that is entirely different. That is mostly what google street view does (except expanded with view bubbles). That is simply a long panorama. Google Street View is a panorama + 360 view bubbles. Street Slide takes Street View-like view bubbles and intelligently stitches them back into a panorama for getting a good spatial map of an area. Then when you need to zoom back in, it pushes you into the correct bubble. It is much easier for a person to view and use than either of the previous models.
So what you are saying is that the panorama that is created by stitching image slices together (a la Dr. Zheng et al)...
Technology Review explains that Street Slide stitches together slices from multiple panoramas,
...has hyperlinks on it that bring it to a Google bubble view. I give props to Microsoft for putting peanutbutter in their chocolate, but they didn't do a lot of inventing here.