Mormon 72 24
Married for third time 67 30
72 years old 57 42 So the 3 front-runners for the Republican nomination have some serious problems getting elected (best case, Romney, still has 1/4 of Republicans who won't vote for him based on his religion). For me it looks like it is time to finally vote Libertarian - I don't have the usual excuse of "I'm throwing my vote away for somebody who won't get elected" because voting for a Republican looks like the same thing this time around.
Seriously, I'm a Mormon Republican and even *I* don't want to vote for Romney.
Where I work, we use a program that randomly generates COD2 maps called cod2gen http://cod2gen.blogspot.com/. We play every day at lunch and at usually at 5pm. Our experience is that a single randomly generated "map of the day" is sufficient and entertaining, then after 3 or 4 rounds, we always return to a time-tested favorite like Toujane or Matmata for a round or two. The random maps keep the game fresh and surprising but lack some of the qualities that make those manually constructed maps "classics".
Full disclosure: I wrote the cod2gen program, so obviously I'm a bit biased as to its usefulness. But the other half dozen guys that work with me seem to like playing the random maps, too.
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I submitted an online terms of usage agreement for a google service that was helpfully placed in a user-editable textarea. This is what we agreed on:
Google agrees to pay me, the user of its service, $1000 every time I use it. The checks must be getting lost in the mail.
You should see what can be done with a good js obfuscator, like the one made by stunnix. We do some similar things to our js code where I work, and I can honestly say that if we lost our un-obfuscated code, I would find it easier to rewrite it than to try to translate it back from the obfuscated version.
Javascript would be a great language for teaching, it shares a lot of syntax with other popular languages (c, java, c++), but avoids the low-level details that would intimidate a beginning student.
The big disadvantage to using javascript is that people only think of it in relationship to a web browser. Most javascript tutorials are about how to acheive some lame text-blinking effect, and aren't really about the language itself. A noteable exception is Douglas Crocford's Javascript page: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/, but that is really advanced stuff that would make a beginner's head spin.
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Married for third time 67 30
72 years old 57 42
So the 3 front-runners for the Republican nomination have some serious problems getting elected (best case, Romney, still has 1/4 of Republicans who won't vote for him based on his religion). For me it looks like it is time to finally vote Libertarian - I don't have the usual excuse of "I'm throwing my vote away for somebody who won't get elected" because voting for a Republican looks like the same thing this time around.
Seriously, I'm a Mormon Republican and even *I* don't want to vote for Romney.
Where I work, we use a program that randomly generates COD2 maps called cod2gen http://cod2gen.blogspot.com/. We play every day at lunch and at usually at 5pm. Our experience is that a single randomly generated "map of the day" is sufficient and entertaining, then after 3 or 4 rounds, we always return to a time-tested favorite like Toujane or Matmata for a round or two. The random maps keep the game fresh and surprising but lack some of the qualities that make those manually constructed maps "classics".
Full disclosure: I wrote the cod2gen program, so obviously I'm a bit biased as to its usefulness. But the other half dozen guys that work with me seem to like playing the random maps, too.
You should see what can be done with a good js obfuscator, like the one made by stunnix. We do some similar things to our js code where I work, and I can honestly say that if we lost our un-obfuscated code, I would find it easier to rewrite it than to try to translate it back from the obfuscated version.
Javascript would be a great language for teaching, it shares a lot of syntax with other popular languages (c, java, c++), but avoids the low-level details that would intimidate a beginning student. The big disadvantage to using javascript is that people only think of it in relationship to a web browser. Most javascript tutorials are about how to acheive some lame text-blinking effect, and aren't really about the language itself. A noteable exception is Douglas Crocford's Javascript page: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/, but that is really advanced stuff that would make a beginner's head spin.