I, don't, quite, know, what, you, mean?
Wow! I never knew William Shatner visited our humble forum!
I, don't, quite, know, what, you, mean?
Wow! I never knew William Shatner visited our humble forum!
They did try with Crusade, but it never took off.
No, Crusade took place after the Telepath War. One of the results of the Telepath War was better integration with society, including the military. That's why there was a telepath on the command staff of the Excalibur.
Yeah, I'm sure he would much rather do it as another multi-year TV series. I just meant that the reason it hasn't been done in another medium (e.g. a series of books or comics) in the past 15 years is so that he can do it as a movie or TV series instead.
The Telepath War has been purposely left as a large hole so that it can be used as a feature film (and possibly a new series). There are a lot of other fans around who are annoyed that nothing has been done with it yet, but the upcoming movie is giving us some hope again.
The story didn't have to be over. They wrapped everything up in the fourth season because they weren't sure if there would be a fifth. Then it was renewed and the fifth season ended up being kind of a standalone thing and suffered as a result.
Season 5 was always supposed to be mostly the way it was. Season 4 was supposed to end only a few episodes earlier ("Intersections in Real Time", if I remember correctly), so there was really only 3 or 4 episodes worth of material in Season 5 that wasn't originally planned for it.
The writing was good enough that had they known from the start it would have run for 6, 8, or 10 seasons or whatever, I think it would have been fine.
The danger would have been falling into a Star Trek style of series, with just a bunch of standalone episodes instead of a single story. In many ways, it would be better to have a new story line with new characters in the same universe, which is what Crusade was supposed to be.
Babylon 5 is probably my favorite TV show of all time. It's a shame it only ran for 5 seasons. It's also a shame that Crusade was canceled so soon, I quite liked it.
I'll slightly disagree in that I'm glad the original B5 series ended when the story was over. Definitely sucks that Crusade didn't get enough time to develop. Damnit, I want to know what the hell is up with the Apocalypse Box.
Anyone ever picked up on the jabs between B5 and DS9? I forget exactly what they were but they did subtly make fun of each other a few times.
From "There All the Honor Lies": "We're not some deep space franchise, this station is about something!"
I remember playing around with PHP-GTK. I think I tried writing a control program for my IRC bot (which basically turned into an IRC client).
Show me where socialism is supported in the Bible.
I was specifically thinking of the pretty loose concept of land ownership. You weren't able to purchase someone's land, you could only rent it until the next Jubilee year. At that time, the land was returned to the person/family that you rented it from. The underlying theological concept was that people couldn't own land, but that the land was only "owned" by God. Socially, the purpose was to prevent ending up with a wealthy class of land owners and a class of poor, homeless people.
There are other laws that forced redistribution of wealth. If you were wealthy, you were required to lend money (with no interest) to others who couldn't afford basic necessities*. Farmers also weren't allowed to harvest all of their crops; you had to leave a portion of your fields for the poor to come and gather food.
* As a side note, this law is where the idea that Jews can only charge interest to non-Jews came from; a few thousand years ago, the unstated assumption was that a Jew who asked to borrow money was a fellow citizen who needed the money to survive, while a non-Jew who asked to borrow money was a travelling merchant looking for commercial investment. Obviously, this assumption doesn't hold anymore.
Well, I'd walk over and investigate the workstation that's having trouble. Do I see anything obvious?
No, you don't see anything. The room is dark.
You will probably be eaten by a grue
the direction and ferocity of my rage (or lack thereof) will be determined by many factors....
By many... unrelated factors?
Hm, we need a emoji for taking off sunglasses.
Or use something like LibreOffice perhaps?
I am frequently told not to use LibreOffice because it isn't compatible with MS Office. My usual response is, "Sure, but it's not like MS Office is compatible with MS Office either."
How can you honestly say that it's "certainly not a major part of the party's platform" when the Bible is basically the Republican Party Platform at this point?
Nah, their platform is only the parts of the Bible that they like (e.g. the two places that talk about the evil gays). They'll gladly ignore all the stuff that they don't like (e.g. all the places that support socialism).
I do find it amusing that they're usually the first ones to talk about stopping Muslims from implementing Sharia law, though.
Ok?I still don't care.
Yet you care enough to post in this topic. Repeatedly. In direct response to the post that you don't care about.
...
Oh yeah, I forgot for a minute who I was talking to.
As much as I hate defending the rat, it was a legitimate question. Yes, the most likely meaning was that the range should map linearly between the integers, like most people said. Given the bizarre ranges in the input, though, I wouldn't have been surprised if the output values were supposed to be on some equally bizarre scale. Would you have been all that surprised to find out that each range should end up on a logarithmic scale?
C# by contrast imposes certain restrictions that made it harder but far from impossible to write bad code.
It seems like that just makes bad programmers try even harder, which results in code that's even more spectacularly bad.
Side note 1: I have no art skills, so fuck knows why I'm assigned to this part and not one of the 3 graphic designers who work in our department.
Colored squares, maybe with a letter in the middle. If someone doesn't like them, tell them that if they want high quality icons, maybe they should ask the professional graphics artists to do the icons instead.
Unless there's a fairly simple equation f(x) that describes y = f(x) (which it doesn't look like), you're probably better off just using a series of ifs.
If I remember correctly (and it's been a long time since I've done even a small amount of work like this), any set of points (x,y) can be approximately described by a combination of sine functions (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform). The "noisier" the data is, though, the more complicated the function becomes. My guess is that for this simple case, the transform would be far more complicated than you'd want to deal with.
It should be a scary-looking bear with its arms spread.
Or, as Google suggests when I searched for "bear hug gif", a picture from Street Fighter of Zangeif or E. Honda.
News is coming out today that this is a new "feature" of Twitter.
Do I get an award for my first necro?
I've always thought it was kind of annoying that there are so many similar-but-slightly-different formats for configuration files. I didn't expect to read about someone who has never seen any of them.
@Eldelshell said:I try to never change a job/girlfriend/car/home until I have another.
Three of these are very sensible, the last one makes you a huge asshole.
Yeah, it's kind of an asshole move to ask a friend if you can sleep on their couch just because you didn't bother finding another apartment yet.
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What, were you thinking of a different one?
How did you miss one of the most obvious mistakes?
Tell me which site to check, and I will...----------------------------------------------^ Come on, this is what, 2nd grade grammar?
I would prefer 42Is there a "Who do you think we are?" badge for including a link to Wikipedia for a reference that all of us know?
@Polygeekery said:I can't keep all of these fucking acronyms and initialisms straight. Can't we all just lump them under "self-righteous fucking assholes" and he done with it.FTFY
And we can shorten it to SRFAs.
It's extremely difficult to give good answers like that quickly, especially in a heated deposition. Scoring a few good quotes in deposition are invaluable at trial, "so you swore under oath that ...; do you still believe what you said, or have you now changed your mind?"
Professional expert witnesses get treated that way (sometimes with extremely humorous results), but average people that get dragged in as fact witnesses usually get a little more leeway to correct things that they've previously said. The lawyers always went to get those good sound bites, but they have to be careful, since it can backfire with a jury if it looks like they're bullying a witness.
Deposition time!describe for me this careful consideration .... I see, "using coming sans for their resume"? Um, that doesn't sound very careful of consideration, now does it? Would you agree that most people agree with that? ... Really!? Let me remind you, you're under oath. You are saying, for the record, that you honestly believe that most people would say "font choice" is a "careful consideration" for a non-designer job? ... Ok, we've demonstrated you didn't actually use "careful" consideration, did you actually have any other non-racial, non-sexist, non-religious consideration, or did you just not hire Latisha Goldstein because she's black, female, and jewish?
I really wanted to say that this would never happen in a real deposition. Then I thought about it for a minute, and I realized that I can see a lawyer trying to pull it off.
I've tried making pizza dough once, and it failed pretty miserably. I haven't tried again since then, though I probably should.
I haven't tried making my own pasta sauce. I don't have a crockpot, but I could probably just use plain tomato paste and toss in some spices.
Expanding my cooking ability is a pretty slow/infrequent process. There's a few things I can do pretty well at this point, but it takes a while for me to get around to learning new stuff.
@Dragnslcr said:Trader Joesyeah they're around.... not worth dealing with the crowds of hipsters.
Yeah, especially since there's still only the one on Marginal Way*, right? I have one about a 10-minute walk from home, and another that's about an 8 minute drive. I usually only go there for a few specific things, like pizza dough and pasta sauce that doesn't have 50% of my daily sodium per serving.
* Side note: 30 years ago, that Trader Joe's was a warehouse that my father worked in.
I guess I don't buy enough stuff at CVS to notice the price difference. Amazingly, they outnumber Dunkin' Donuts on my street, 3-2 (Walgreens ties DD).
Hanaford is closer but a bit too far to walk
But they sell Smiling Hill Farm milk, which makes everything worth it.
and shaws.... we don't talk about shaws....
My parents still go to Shaws. There's a Stop & Shop, Wegman's, and two Trader Joes closer to where I live now.
@aapis said:jail ... AustraliaThere's a difference?
In Australia, the big furry animals that want to kill you will probably try to eat you afterwards.
@Dragnslcr said:ZIP codes ... start with 0 for meClearly, you just live in the wrong part of the country.
I prefer to think of it as the right part of the country. The upper-right part, that is.
Phone numbers, for example, or SSNs. Basically anything you'll never need to use as a number (do math on it, etc)
This cannot be emphasized enough. Just because a string can contain only digits, that doesn't make it a number. SSNs are a classic example of people mistakenly storing them as numbers. ZIP codes are another. If you store those as numbers, there's a good chance that I will break your system (they both start with 0 for me).
@powerlord said:Has it occurred to you that maybe you shouldn't comment on things you know nothing about?wouldn't that remove 99.995% of all conversation on this forum if we all followed that rule?
Oh, don't exaggerate. It most likely wouldn't be more than 99.97% of all conversations here. Maybe 99.98%, tops.
@Lorne_Kates said:
Or Like your own post of FleeceBook
Pretty sure you can do that. I agree that it seems pretty stupid, but it is Facebook.
I swear, I want to run a programming challenge for frontend devs: build a simple mobile-friendly site without Javascript. At all. No, not even AJAX. Just html.
But that would require understanding some really obscure technologies. You know, stuff like HTML and HTTP.
You don't explicitly mention it, but you are checking the "Do not show me this again" checkbox, right?
Inescapable charity fundraising
Expected about escaping strings. Was disappointed.
Though you won't get objects, you'll get a list of values (strings, integers, datetimes, etc.). Instantiating an object with those values is pretty easy. The only annoying thing in Python is to get a dictionary of field => value pairs; you normally have to get the field list from the cursor and then build the dictionary yourself. I think MSSQL might be the exception, though, and gives you objects with the field names as properties.
Python has modules for pretty much every DBMS. Typically, your code will be something like this:
conn = db.connection()
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute(sql)
for row in cursor:
# Do stuff with row, which a list of column values
See, this is why Americans are superior, we don't just work hard, but we work smart. And we don't give a shit if people are glowering at us. Glower away! It's 6:00. I'm going fucking home.
Clearly you haven't heard any of the horror stories about a large number of software companies around San Francisco. Computer game companies are especially infamous for death marches.
The point of O(1) is that the function takes a constant amount of time to run regardless of theinputssize of the input.
Fixed that for you. An O(1) algorithm would be one where you can calculate the total covered area in a constant amount of time regardless of the number of rectangles.
If those are the real usernames and passwords, maybe he's just using this as a cleverfucking stupid way of reporting a major security hole in the systems?
@dse said:usesudo -i
which is same assu
Actually, it's not.sudo -i
is the same assu -
(or the equivalentssu -l
andsu --login
), in that it not only changes the user and group ids, but effectively carries out the login process for the substitute user, and so, amongst other things, changes directory to the substitute user's$HOME
.You normally don't want that to happen.
sudo -s
is your friend.
I wasn't familiar with the -s option, so I just looked it up. The other major difference between -s and -i is that -i will also run stuff like root's .profile file. That's usually what I want to happen, but it's good to know that there's -s for times when it doesn't matter.
@Kuro said:Pretty sure Ubuntu supports the "su" command which lets you be somewhat rootish for the rest of the terminal.
su
requires a root password to be configured;sudo su
will allow you to get a root terminal without a root password being set. People often advise against doing this, but it is convenient if you need to do a series of operations which require root.
I think the "correct" way to do that is with sudo -i
. That will start a normal shell as root.
Many people have a few friends that they feel like they've known forever. Apparently Facebook is trying to guess which ones.
So I did find the C# code if you really want to see it. It should be packed full of . The timestamps on the files are all 2007.