sphericalgames

When I see that I immediately think it is an octal notation number.

This video explains the problem - it is worth watching the entire video. If you are pressed for time jump to 15:00 mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg

Dynamite fishing is the number 1 cause of coral reef destruction in Indonesia. Search for "blast fishing in Indonesia" - there are plenty of youtube videos of the devastation this causes. They now have protected areas that have zero tolerance to blast fishing with regular patrols and long sentences if caught. Such protected areas are thriving in coral.

The best solution is to get rid of shopping carts and force customers to use shopping baskets instead. The queues to the checkout will be shorter and so will reduce the exposure to infection.

Thanks for this. Certainly food for thought here. I do have a couple of developer friends I could hand over this stuff to on the event the worst should happen. I guess some developers don't have that option. For me, it is just a matter of broaching the subject with them and see which friend is best handling the issue at hand. It is a tricky subject and I believe is it one that is being totally overlooked and we are collectively losing a lot of work that we are unaware of.

There are already good studies and it is well known that Vitamin D is toxic if too much quantity is taken over time. 5K IU is 5x more than the recommended daily limit. She should have dropped to 1K IU after 4 months of taking 5K IU, that is, if she continued not to get regular sun exposure or eat food rich in Vitamin D. The problem lies in the prescribed amount and the duration and not because of lack of studies. Did a doctors advise 5K IU without a time limit?

You can complete this with just one div. Just jump up and when it get to the desired jump height simply click create. Before I click create the new div has a new bottom offset which is a raised platform from the previous platform position that the player lands on.

It is nothing like a Wikipedia - you can't edit my tweet for a start.

It is more like a micro blogging platform with an integrated RSS Reader.

My tweets are my blogs entries limited to 140 characters.

Clicking on followers is the same as clicking on subscribe to another blog RSS.

When I view all my followers tweets, that timeline is exactly like me viewing all my subscribed RSS in an RSS reader, the only different is you see the content there and then rather than clicking a link to view the entire story.

Retweets is same as reblog button on a blog.

Reply to a tweet is same as making a comment to a blog post.

As for Facebook I don't have an FB account to know how it functions. I'm guessing if you think about it long enough it is close to being a blog too with more bells and whistles. Adding your family/friends is akin to subscribing to their feed is just like subscribing to RSS on a blog.

I'm thinking of selling mine given I've not touched it in years.

https://www.ted.com/talks/pamelia_kurstin_plays_the_theremin...

Win vs Beat

A lot of people fall into this trap.

When someone beats me at a game, they most likely say "I've won you." as oppose to "I've beaten you." The former implies I'm the prize.

I've fallen into this trap myself plenty of times and do wonder if messages like "You win ...." enforces this mistake.

The second example needs some more work.

When you drag no-drop over the yes-drop div it appears on top. If you then drag yes-drop and go back to dragging the no-drop this then appears under the yes-drop div.

Also I don't get what causes the highlight of the drop zones to activate. Percentage of shape? Center of Shape? Personally I prefer that it is the mouse pointer that activates the enter / leave and not the shape itself.

Added: If you drag the yes-drop from the side to enter the drop zones, the outer zone looks like 50 pixels wide and yet the error or margin to drop it in there is about 2 pixels before you enter the inner zone.

When using C++ in games you often find that you want results to be deterministic so it is same for all players across all hardware.

> All existing apps will be rendered into the current 320x568 frame buffer and scaled up. It's really no different to an iPhone app running on an iPad in that respect.

I don't think it quite works that way. In the past, your iPhone app was designed to run on iPhone only and it upscaled if you attempt to run it on iPad and the OS knew it had to do this due to a checkbox setting in xCode.

Nowadays, most apps are universal and runs on any device by adjust the output according to device resolution and given scale factor. Basically the scaling is handle internally by the program and not by the OS as described above. In theory, your app should be future proof if you did this correctly.

That said, you need HD Retina graphics so that your code avoids upscaling images. Beyond that, everything else such as fonts are not upscaled but drawn to scale.

Australia isn't an ideal location for keeping data center cool either.

Last line in the license summary link you provided says:

4. Please be aware that all usage of vector icons as company logo is prohibited.

Certainly on iStockPhoto there is a license restriction clause which states it can't be use in any logo or trademark.

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/licenses

I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of restriction is common in most stock photo sites.

Animated / interactive Bezier curves: http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/

I got 4 x 16s first row, 4 x 8s second row, 4 x 4s 3rd row and 4 x 2s on last row just by pressing up.

Then it says game over.

This is wrong because I should be able to shift left / right and merge those same numbers that are matching in a row.

It seems it is game over if all 16 cells are filled in regardless if a move is still possible.

Not sure if the mistake on the writer part or but f-ing and blinding is commonly written as effing and blinding.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/effing+and+blinding

Apparently the link states (British & Australian informal).

Added: if you search for "f-ing and blinding" in Google you'll get did you mean effing and blinding?

It wasn't long ago that thread appeared about silver making antibiotics thousands of times more effective.

Not sure where the thread is but the story here: http://www.nature.com/news/silver-makes-antibiotics-thousand...