How did Manga/Anime become such a nerd thing? I have been a nerd for quite a few years now and none of my nerd friends (RL friends that is) are into Manga.
If I were teaching teenagers or even lower class college students, I wouldn't hesitate to build a class around this book.
I couldn't finish the first few sentences of the summary. Your evil plans have failed due to my failure to read your evil plans. I would never subject college students of any caliber to manga no matter the subject (check that; I suppose study of Japanese might merit use of manga, with visual elements tied so closely to written elements).
Does anyone else think it odd that the white house press room is filled with reporters? 3 or 4 reporters could do the same job as the 20 or 30 that pack that news room.
I think that there should be more reporters in there (and asking more hard-hitting questions). The press is the unofficial fourth branch. 3-4 people are easier to bribe/coerce than 40-50(400-500) people.
If the Gates Foundation could eradicate malaria while locking people into the malaria vaccines, they would. Thankfully, the vaccines are checked for addictive substances.
The current spec doesn't cover spreadsheet formulas: it has a big whole and basically says "Do what OpenOffice.org does for now".
The problem with MS's specs saying "Do what Word 97 does" is that no one other than MS knows what Word 97 does. But OpenOffice's source code is... open. Anyone can know what OpenOffice does, and if MS is afraid of GPL, they're big enough for proper cleanroom approach.
"It's a feature, not a bug" would make sense if we were talking about something that actually arose as a bug. People don't think about what they write these days, they just let out torrent upon torrent of brainfarts.
Only if you're trying to be ironic. It _is_ a feature. It's not a bug. It's also not a rutabaga.
Who would want the naming rights to a potentially deadly virus? Any company! Say Coca-Cola buys the rights; history records that the Pepsi-flu killed billions!
So, hold a raffle (randomization to potentially big pockets from dominating thus becoming bigger). Coke spends $1B, Pepsico spends $1B, USA Fed spends $3T, Jason Fox spends $1, and there's still a chance that it could be named "Eileen Jacobson."
The Computer Science 101 students' heads all exploded when foo.java opened in Visual Studio 2005 instead of Notepad++.
Sounds like you've got some slow students if they couldn't ignore VS2005 and open a text file in the editor of their choice. In my experience, when Information Security gets "hit over the head with a clue bat", their response is "Okay, we'll ignore your vulnerabilities for now, but first sign of trouble, and we take your machine(s). And we won't be inclined to be nice about data you didn't back up. Have a nice day".
Microsoft has a long history of forcibly breaking your operating environment.
The coloring book was produced to help kids process something that a _lot_ of them saw on live television _while_ it was happening, including the second plane strike, the people jumping, and the towers collapsing; not to mention the bajillion talking heads who were visibly shaken themselves.
"A Scary Thing Happened", and the kids were going to be thinking about it, and maybe drawing it anyway. Maybe it might have been good to let them know (via a coloring book) that scary things are rare, and that happy times are common. Now, eight years later, those kids have grown past the coloring book stage, and today's toddlers have no need for "A Scary Thing Happened."
If your work can't/won't spend a one-time $300 for a bargain-basement PC for you to test IE8, when they're paying you $XX,XXX for (presumably) web design, then they've got their priorities backward.
You want weird javascript? Try using/. with an iphone. _Every_ part of the page is clickable, which means you can't scroll easily, and if you do accidentally click off of a link, it reloads the page, starts back up at the top, and then starts a weird reload-epileptic-fit where every news item of the last day is the top article on the page for about half a second each until the javascript is done rewriting the page.
Did the/. web devs create a browser within a browser using javascript or something? What's wrong with static HTML or simple server-side perl cgi?
I should be running my own instance of/. at http://localhost/ ? Then I could patch/. to not have "idle" and editors I don't like. RMS, you're a lifesaver!
Those thousands that die are among hundreds of thousands or more who get infected. This strain has infected far fewer people, yet killed more of them, so the mortality rate is much higher.
If infection became widespread, as was the case in 1918, then we could be looking at serious losses.
Maybe hundreds of thousands _are_ being infected, but it's so mild they don't notice. With little immune response a mild bug could become deadly.
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How did Manga/Anime become such a nerd thing? I have been a nerd for quite a few years now and none of my nerd friends (RL friends that is) are into Manga.
Robotech. That is all.
If I were teaching teenagers or even lower class college students, I wouldn't hesitate to build a class around this book.
I couldn't finish the first few sentences of the summary. Your evil plans have failed due to my failure to read your evil plans. I would never subject college students of any caliber to manga no matter the subject (check that; I suppose study of Japanese might merit use of manga, with visual elements tied so closely to written elements).
Does anyone else think it odd that the white house press room is filled with reporters? 3 or 4 reporters could do the same job as the 20 or 30 that pack that news room.
I think that there should be more reporters in there (and asking more hard-hitting questions). The press is the unofficial fourth branch. 3-4 people are easier to bribe/coerce than 40-50(400-500) people.
If the Gates Foundation could eradicate malaria while locking people into the malaria vaccines, they would. Thankfully, the vaccines are checked for addictive substances.
@POTUS "Tossing the football around the Oval Office"
@CHINA "Oh $&&#*"
@RUSSIA RT @CHINA "Oh $&&#*"
Do you really think anyone wants pigs sitting next to them on a plane right now?
Does it still work?
The current spec doesn't cover spreadsheet formulas: it has a big whole and basically says "Do what OpenOffice.org does for now".
The problem with MS's specs saying "Do what Word 97 does" is that no one other than MS knows what Word 97 does. But OpenOffice's source code is... open. Anyone can know what OpenOffice does, and if MS is afraid of GPL, they're big enough for proper cleanroom approach.
"It's a feature, not a bug" would make sense if we were talking about something that actually arose as a bug. People don't think about what they write these days, they just let out torrent upon torrent of brainfarts.
Only if you're trying to be ironic. It _is_ a feature. It's not a bug. It's also not a rutabaga.
My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago.
Who do you think you're fooling with this?
More importantly, is the apostrophe [iend's] or [iends']? That's an important distinction.
And pre-pending wine to every command line?
Who would want the naming rights to a potentially deadly virus? Any company! Say Coca-Cola buys the rights; history records that the Pepsi-flu killed billions!
So, hold a raffle (randomization to potentially big pockets from dominating thus becoming bigger). Coke spends $1B, Pepsico spends $1B, USA Fed spends $3T, Jason Fox spends $1, and there's still a chance that it could be named "Eileen Jacobson."
The Computer Science 101 students' heads all exploded when foo.java opened in Visual Studio 2005 instead of Notepad++.
Sounds like you've got some slow students if they couldn't ignore VS2005 and open a text file in the editor of their choice. In my experience, when Information Security gets "hit over the head with a clue bat", their response is "Okay, we'll ignore your vulnerabilities for now, but first sign of trouble, and we take your machine(s). And we won't be inclined to be nice about data you didn't back up. Have a nice day".
Microsoft has a long history of forcibly breaking your operating environment.
So do malware writers.
There you go confusing slashdot with penthouse again.
The coloring book was produced to help kids process something that a _lot_ of them saw on live television _while_ it was happening, including the second plane strike, the people jumping, and the towers collapsing; not to mention the bajillion talking heads who were visibly shaken themselves.
"A Scary Thing Happened", and the kids were going to be thinking about it, and maybe drawing it anyway. Maybe it might have been good to let them know (via a coloring book) that scary things are rare, and that happy times are common. Now, eight years later, those kids have grown past the coloring book stage, and today's toddlers have no need for "A Scary Thing Happened."
This has to be one of the least understood and most poorly reported issues of the entire Bush administration.
I think the fact that GWB is of above average intelligence is the most poorly reported aspect of the entire Bush administration.
If your work can't/won't spend a one-time $300 for a bargain-basement PC for you to test IE8, when they're paying you $XX,XXX for (presumably) web design, then they've got their priorities backward.
"The line of code I adopted starts with /* and has several expletives referring to the code below it."
Twitter with Wikipedia style moderation.
phew, smelly poop -- [citation needed]
@kv8vk that _was_ smelly poop. local news article: http://example.com/
@kgg7ig @kv8vk citation for smelly poop unreliable; local news site cited @kv8vk's twitter feed.
You want weird javascript? Try using /. with an iphone. _Every_ part of the page is clickable, which means you can't scroll easily, and if you do accidentally click off of a link, it reloads the page, starts back up at the top, and then starts a weird reload-epileptic-fit where every news item of the last day is the top article on the page for about half a second each until the javascript is done rewriting the page.
/. web devs create a browser within a browser using javascript or something? What's wrong with static HTML or simple server-side perl cgi?
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Swine flu fears spread via Twitter! http://example.com/ ZOMG
RT: @obojbaljsb @ljsndljsd @ksahbksjbdv Swine flu spread via Twitter! http://example.com/
RT: @hbs9yho3u @9jbkjsrg @jkbs8h3g @kbhjs89 @kjbiugs3e Swine flu spreads via Twitter!
Swine flu killed my friend via Twitter!
Fail Whale.
I should be running my own instance of /. at http://localhost/ ? Then I could patch /. to not have "idle" and editors I don't like. RMS, you're a lifesaver!
Those thousands that die are among hundreds of thousands or more who get infected. This strain has infected far fewer people, yet killed more of them, so the mortality rate is much higher. If infection became widespread, as was the case in 1918, then we could be looking at serious losses.
Maybe hundreds of thousands _are_ being infected, but it's so mild they don't notice. With little immune response a mild bug could become deadly.
But hey, Hilter made the trains run on time too.
That was Mussolini. Hitler was the vegetarian painter.