If you’re an undergraduate reading Computer Science at the University of Cambridge (and surely in many other places), you’re a good computer scientist, you have a cool idea that you want to implement and you know you can do it with some time and effort, don’t. Wait until your third year. You’ll need it for your obligatory personal project.

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Here is my take at a translation of the comments on the Cast page of the official Web site of The Familiar of Zero the anime (Zero no Tsukaima F).

Spoiler: this probably needs an editor to make my awkward English readable. And a translator to correct my translation errors.
Director’s Comments
A long time has passed since the first season and you ( Read more... )

They heard me! Now let’s just hope they finalize the specification and Web browsers implement it soon.

Для сайта ABFS эта штука тоже бы очень пригодилась. И вообще, я считаю, это best thing since sliced bread.

Some have proposed alternatives to the GPL that require modified versions to go through the original author. As long as the original author keeps up with the need for maintenance, this may work well in practice, but if the author stops (more or less) to do something else or does not attend to all the users' needs, this scheme falls down. Aside from ( Read more... )

It has been pointed out to me that my two posts about the IB DP in my school paint a very dark picture of it indeed. That is certainly true, and no wonder they do, as they were intended to highlight the bad aspects in the first place. However, just so you do not think the IB DP in Riga State Gymnasium No. 1 is not useful at all, I will devote this ( Read more... )

First of all, a very short disclaimer: not all of this applies to all teachers/subjects/whatever-else-appropriate. Bonus information: this list was started a long time ago.

1. Only a handful of subjects are taught in English, and even then it is intermixed with Latvian. (The only subject I know to be taught entirely in English is English.) In fact, ( Read more... )

(For the introductory paragraph, location and music, see the next entry.)

The Language A1 programme is primarily a pre-university course in literature. It is aimed at students who intend to pursue literature, or related studies, at university, as well as at students whose formal study of literature will not continue beyond this level. The former ( Read more... )

• The media files are all stored in the Matroska container, obviously, unless that’s impossible. (If Matroska can’t be used but several other formats can be, I want the one that supports more of the tags that I use.)
• Matroska’s native tagging mechanism is used with Matroska’s official tags.
• The audio and video on my iPod touch are synchronized with the ( Read more... )

Хочу через CSS (хотя, если честно, то хотя бы как-нибудь!) сделать такую фишку: слой, занимающий полную ширину страницы, разбит на несколько колонок так, что колонки в сумме занимают всю ширину слоя. К колонкам применён overflow-x: scroll. Представим, что все колонки одинаковые по ширине. Теперь, если содержимое колонки уже самой колонки, уменьшаем ( Read more... )