You know what emits a lot of infrared light? The sun. Nobody ever complained (if ever, we can "complain" about the emitted UV light).

Actually try this: take welder googles (not mask), remove the lenses and replace them with stacked sheets of red and blue light filter (Rosco was the brand I used). This will block almost all visible light but let near-infrared come through. Wear these glasses in bright daylight, just never ever stare at the sun, really just don't. However, the result is, that you will see in the near-IR spectrum. Your rods/cones are not very sensible to this frequencies, so it must be a bright sunny day, but it works.

Just don't look at the sun directly, while your pupils are completely open, you would burn your retina pretty quickly.

...what are the alternatives? Rolling your own crypto won't work well. Unfortunately answers to this question can only be speculation. I wouldn't be extremely paranoid, but still it depends what you are trying to protect.

For Mac it is quite unlikely, since all the standard directories are english only. They just happen to have file named ".localized" in them, and the Finder (but not "ls") will show their localized name. I find this to be actually a pretty good approach since you can change language at any moment and system-created folders will also magically get a localized name. To have the application fail if the locale is not english under Mac OS X you really need to go out of your way and do something contrived and stupid I guess. May DRM?

That's not a bad response at all, calibre is open source. "Code it yourself" does not meant he would not accept the patch, it just means he does not feel like doing it himself, which is reasonable

or 4chan...

Sir, you are just either old or retro. There is no real, logical reason to keep around a 286 and 386, much less move data around between them. If you got access to the internet and are using gmail, ajax website and the likes you probably also a normal computer and can use things like dropbox, which are free to exchange data with your friends.

What about SDL? They seem to handle those aspects pretty well

As far as I have understood the problem here is not the "lit portion" per-se, but the fact that it looks basically identical to the Microsoft one. If you see the Datel controller, you can hardly distinguish it from the Microsoft controller.

The problem is that foreigners usually pick the worst restaurants, because they located are near the attractions. At the same time foreigners generally don't know the Italian names for pizzas. I for one love the Contadina (mozzarella, potatoes and sausages), Boscaiola (mozzarella, mushrooms and sausages), Quattro formaggi (4 kinds of cheese) and Diavola (tomato sauce and hot salami). You should also try the "sliced pizza", which is basically our fast-food. It is usually richer than round pizza, and in my opinion can better appeal the tastes of an American.



BTW: The word you are looking for is "peperoni" and not "pepperoni", also "margherita" and not "margheritta". Yes we have double consonants in many words, but not in every.

I live in Fiumicino, which you may know as the "Rome Airport". Other than being the Rome Airport, is also the "Rome restaurant". Indeed in Rome is pretty hard, especially in the center, to find a good pizza, because too many restaurants are targeted toward tourists. Usually they serve frozen pizza. In Fiumicino the pizza is very good in many restaurants. Also remember that in Rome we very often eat "sliced pizza" and not the round one, is much easier to find very tasty sliced pizza than a good round pizza here.

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I am using Darcs and it seems to do the job. Is strange that it isn't even mentioned cause it has been around since quite some time and is pretty mature. The only problem I am having with Darcs is huge resource consumption (a copy of the repository is on a VPS with 256mb RAM, no swap) but you can move a repository by just copying it somewhere else (even across systems) without problems. What are the advantages of using Git/Mercurial/Bazaar? I think I need to mention that I am developing on OSX (but a copy of the repository is on a Linux system).

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Actually he is mentioning Linux. GNUstep is a really good platform for experimenting with Objective-C. It should be stable and full-featured enough for the needs of learning. I started coding Objective-C on that about 6 years ago. Over time I switched to Mac, which of course provides me with a more stable environment for Objective-C programming, yet GNUstep was very useful and I guess it evolved since I last used it.

You say that you have only done a bit of Obj-C programming. The problem is that for small programs retain/release is much like malloc/free, but in bigger projects it becomes a life-safer. The conventions are very easy, even if you throw some CoreFoundation object in the equation.

The main difference between retain/release and malloc/free is that with retain = "I (object calling retain) need this object to stick around" and release = "I (object calling release) don't need this object anymore". Instead malloc = "create this", free = "nobody else in this process needs this". You can see yourself that while is usually trivial to determine if an object needs something it is referencing or not, doing so for the whole process everytime you try to get rid of an object is painful.

Note that now the Objective-C runtime offers garbage collection (except on the iPhone), which is of course a good step forward.