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6 Insane Foreign Memes That Put Lolcats To Shame
The Internet is indeed uniting the world, but probably not in the way that the idealists were hoping. While we're still waiting for a new era of cross-cultural understanding and peace, what we get in the meantime are memes. Bad photoshops, endless running jokes, image macros... you find them at every corner of the globe. All of them are ridiculous in their own way.
#6. PhotoExtreme (Russia)
Spawned from an Internet community called Encounter Urban Games, the rules of the Russian online phenomenon known as PhotoExtreme are simple: Someone comes up with a random, oddly specific scenario. Then everyone else acts it out and takes photographs. Bonus points if your scenario is insanely dangerous.
For example:
"A Cheating Wife: You need to make a photo of a man, 'a lover,' hanging outside a real window. The window should be not lower than the third story of a multi-storied building. 'A husband' should lean out from another window with a gun, aiming at 'the lover.' From yet another window 'the cheating wife' should look out in despair."
Note that "red boxers" are not specified in the scenario. That just seems to be what every man in Russia wears.
The scenes often take place in public and in broad daylight, and remember that this is an Internet thing: The unsuspecting denizens of meatspace have no idea what's going on, or that some people on some forum somewhere said, "OK, this time we're all going to get naked in a bathtub in the middle of the street."
All in all, it's a fine hobby.
This is therefore one of the few Internet memes in the world that has the capacity to lead to federal charges, international incidents or flat-out War of the Worlds style riots for fear of a zombie outbreak.
These aren't staged. This is just how the Russian mob settles its debts.
#5. Preved Medved (Russia)
In many ways, an Internet meme is like a virus. It can spring up in one country and be cured with two aspirin and a day in bed, but you don't notice until much later that it mutated, traveled to Europe and infected a billion people with terminal madness. Russia's "Preved Medved" phenomenon started in America, when the actor John Lurie made this ridiculous painting:
They don't have a lot to get excited about over there.
There are at least a dozen things in this artwork worthy of merciless ridicule (is that his arm, or is the bear wearing a stove pipe hat with fingernails?) but the Americans dropped the ball. Unbeknownst to all of us, the Russians picked up that ball and ran with it to the cover of Newsweek.
Don't you dare judge them. LOLcats have been on network news.
"Preved Medved," though slightly and deliberately misspelled, means "Hello Bear" in Russian. In practical terms, the rules of the meme are the same as for his equally retarded American cousin, Pedobear: take any regular picture, Photoshop Preved Medved into it and it's as good as a joke.
Ha... ha?
But while flash in the pan memes like this tend to fizzle out after a week or so, this particular phenomenon became weirdly huge. Here it is, graffitied on some isolated shack in Belgium:
Still. It's nicer than Oklahoma.
In 2006, at the height of the craze, a political debate was held for Russian president Vladimir Putin, for which the organizers made the always unwise decision to ask the Internet to submit their questions. The overwhelmingly most popular question? "PREVED, Vladimir Vladimirovich! How do you regard MEDVED?"
Those responsible were swiftly dealt with.
Interestingly, because Putin's presidential successor was Dmitri Medvedev, the joke went over everyone's head, as they just assumed people on the Internet have trouble spelling words, which, to be fair, is kind of true.
#4. Snel Hest (Sweden)
If you exist, then you know about LOLcats. It's the image macro phenomenon that basically defined the concept of the meme, and consequently represents the most depressing thing about the Internet: You can spend a lifetime working in vain to secure some kind of popularity, but the guy who superimposed the words "I can haz cheezburger" over a picture of a cat is raking in billions and drinking cocktails out of coconut halves in the Bahamas.
This is him. This is the man responsible.
In a weird kind of simultaneous intercontinental madness, some people in Sweden had a similar idea. Meet "Snel Hest" - "Nice Horse."
Translation: HORSE MATHEMATICS- Nice horse + Wheat + Pat = Happy Horse
The macro usually looks like an MS Paint collage with a freaky anthropomorphic horse-man and a mathematical formula describing what happens to the horse when you add certain things to it:
Of course!
But the Swedes are all about wordplay, and the evolution of Snel Hest is all about Swedish puns. The title itself is a LOLcat-style misspelling of "snall hast." Incidentally, the Swedish term for hate speech is "hets mot folkgrupp," which provides an unmissable opportunity to turn the nice horse into the Nazi horse.
Hitler was a comedy genius.
This meme became weaponized at one time in opposition to the guy who brought down The Pirate Bay - a notorious anti-piracy advocate named Henrik Ponten, who is basically the Swedish Eliot Ness, if Ness had been predominantly concerned with bootleg MP3s. At one point, Internet pranksters discovered Ponten's cell phone number and bombarded him with text messages reading "klapa snel hest" (pat the nice horse).
He looks less like a hard-bitten lawman and more like a math teacher.
In a phenomenal convergence of terrible ideas, Ponten later attended a televised interview which enabled people to send questions to him via text message. Expectedly, the show received so many oddly misspelled questions about horses that it actually crashed their servers. There's a lesson here, somewhere. If you have a problem with dogs chasing you, don't put bacon in your underwear.


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"At that point my main goal was that we was still alive. And he was still alive even though he had been injured severely. But it was a sinking in your heart, a fear of the dread to know that something bad has happened." Mike McDuffie said.
Mark Mcduffie's family just had a bad feeling.
While the Geneva native had already served two tours in Iraq, something about his third just didn't seem right.
A little more than five years ago, air force special agent mark McDuffie, woke up to do a job he's done many times before.
"I was part of an intelligence team that was there to collect forensics off of all road side bombs, explosive devices so we can educate the other soldiers that are on the ground so they don't become a fatality or injured." Mark McDuffie said.
But preventing those fatalities and injuries was about to get a lot more difficult.
"It was about 9 in the morning and we received a call, we call it a 9 line which means they found an IED in the middle of the street in downtown Rahmadi Iraq.
Once we got on target the IED actually exploded at that time. Killing two individuals in our crew and leaving me as a sole survivor. " McDuffie said.
What followed would be numerous surgeries and a parent's nightmare.
"That day as I saw my other son and his commanding officer come into my office i knew that something had happened." Mark's dad, Mike McDuffie said.
"You think the worst, but you can't imagine the worst. I mean you can't really let yourself entertain that idea." Marks Stepmom Juvonne McDuffie said.
The good news...McDuffie had survived the blast.
The bad news...his feet were destroyed by it.
"At that point my main goal was that we was still alive. And he was still alive even though he had been injured severely. But it was a sinking in your heart, a fear of the dread to know that something bad has happened." Mike McDuffie said.
And mark's parents say through some miracle, McDuffie was able to keep both of his feet.
"It doesn't matter if they're whole or not. There's so much more to us that our physical bodies." Juvonne said.
But to mark, the mental challenges seemed to be the worst.
"The hardest part I could say is guilt. Why did I survive and everyone else was killed that day?" Mark said.
He went to visit the families of his fellow soldiers, hoping to make peace with them and himself.
"That day there was two things we could do. We could sit around and feel sorry for ourselves or we could continue to go on.
And I feel like the guys that were killed that day would want me to go on and share their message. " Mark said.
That is just one of the reasons McDuffie continues to work on his physical and mental health.
"You have to focus on not what you've lost, but what you have left and what you can build on." Juvonne said.
"Hey, life is full of ups and downs and it's what you make of them." Mark said.
Since his accident, McDuffie has helped other wounded warriors overcome battles.
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I am using startx (with Xdmx) to run a remote session on another computer. However, when I do this, keybindings (especially control, alt and the cursor keys) are not correct on the remote session-- and this persists when the session is closed, requiring logout to restore.
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to eat food. to yam food.
to eat pussy. to yam pussy.
to eat pussy. to yam pussy.
"me nah yam no pussy" = i dont eat no pussy
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Drug slang referring to a heroin-filled balloon.
This use of the word is seen in the song "and then what?" by the rapper Young Jeezy in the following passage:
"Close shop then I do my count, hide the rest of the yams at my auntie house"
"Close shop then I do my count, hide the rest of the yams at my auntie house"
by beakllerina August 01, 2005
A term for good, sweet pussy thats lovely for thanksgiving and is originally native to South Jersey.
Yo I got them yams last night.
by The Hamburgler November 10, 2006
street name for a type of drug
"ima keep the rest of my yams at my autie house"
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by yung trill June 04, 2005
i got three yams so we are gonna party like rockstars for the next few days
by version2.0 August 23, 2005
to dunk
I just yammed that shit on your sorry ass!
you just got yammed on, my man!
you just got yammed on, my man!
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You CAN die in this spot. If you see beam tentacles, you better run and kill them THEN come back, and rock throwers can be troublesome. Other than that, it's perfect.
You mean when he shoots that slag beam out of his tail? Because he'll immediately stop if you just shoot at it.
What you really have to watch out for is when he start slamming his tail down. Not only will it kill your shield and take a bunch of health with it, it also launches you into the air, and it doesn't have to be a direct hit to work.
No, we're talking about Terramorphous, not the Warrior. And yeah, I give the Warrior a generous amount of space in any given situation. It's amazing how easy he is to kill compared to a raid boss.
Whoop, my bad. Didn't know. Haven't really gotten into Captain Scarlett yet. Waiting until I hit lvl 50 on my second playthrough.
It's pretty fun. Not wild about the characters in it, but the environments, enemies and loot are spot-on. Not to mention the new vehicle. You'll get the best versions of all the unique items by waiting until lvl 50, too.
Farmed some more and no decent drops at the moment.
Scorch isn't giving up the Hellfire.
Oh dear, I didn't realise level 50 scaled could still drop lower level items. I had a hellfire on my first run, but it's whatever level I was at the time.
No luck since.
But I got the Pyrophobia in two tries. And. It's. Amazing. My favorite laucher by far.
So one of my old friends who isn't a huge gamer started playing this. He got Boom Bewm to drop the Bonus Package on his first try, and he also got a Pyrophobia. He's barely level 17 and he's already found two Legendary weapons. I can take solace knowing that they'll be useless to his main soon enough.
On my first playthrough, I don't think I got a single legendary. On the second (pt 1 with another character), I got LOADS of them. Bonus Package, Striker, Storm Front, you name it.
Finally got a decent Hellfire, Conference Call and Bee.
I've retired the latter two because they make things far too easy apart from the DLC invincibles.
Still having fun and now working on my Gunzerker. Love the Breaking Bald head.
I know you guys like to make fun of the the gunzerker, but does anyone have a good build for him that they can offer? And also, I'm in dire need of new gear, and I'm talking EVERYTHING. I'm not at my house at the moment (at work) but I think I am level 29, does anyone know where I should go to get some good gear for my level?
I like the gunzerker. His mechanics are simple but fun. Haven't played much as him though. Try the Borderlands wiki, they have some cool shit.
I'm playing through my third solo-ish campaign as a Gunzerker now, and my take is that he starts out pretty mediocre, but can get good once you have a good chunk of skill points. Contrast that to the Commando, whose turret starts out good and gets awesome.
Right now I'm going mostly down the Rampage tree. When I started playing, I ran out of ammo constantly, but once I finally found a class mod that allowed ammo regeneration, it stopped being an issue. Putting points into 5 Shots or 6 and the like do wonders for it too. I mostly run around with Bandit and Vladof weapons, since they typically have the biggest magazine sizes. When I gunzerk, I use a Vladof spinigun in one hand and a Vladof pistol in the other. Would be great to get an Infinity (or two).
I'm mostly going down Rampage because without it, gunzerking is pretty awful, but the Gun Lust tree looks interesting, as it would really change the way you play if you wanted to maximize it. It's not as profound a change as the Mechromancer's Ordered Chaos tree, but it would definitely get me playing outside of my usual "hang back and snipe" mode that I run with for Axton, Zer0, and Maya, and still be different from the "run in and never stop shooting" mode that I usually do with Salvador.
The Gunzerker's third tree seems pretty underwhelming as far as awesomeness, though it may be the most useful. It's just not very glamorous for your abilities to be "I have a lot of health."
Yeah Rampage is the way to go in my opinion. You can gunzerk constantly and while your gunzerking it lasts a long time. I'm trying to decide if spending points in other trees is even worth it. The skill that lets you gunzerk while on a last stand is tempting. But I don't know what to skip over on the Rampage tree to get it.
I got to the halfway point in the tree where you get a single-point skill. On the Rampage tree, it's one that improves your accuracy, and gives your shots a chance to decrease recoil/spread when they hit an enemy. Sounds cool, but in practice it's not as great as I had hoped. I feel like my crosshairs still spend most of their time in the widest position; the chance of improving accuracy is low enough that it's easily offset by the flurry of bullets that come out of a Spinigun. Perhaps I should switch to Hyperion weapons.
Just got to the point where you return to Sanctuary, so I was able to spend a ton of Eridium upgrading my backpack/assault rifle ammo capacity. I may have enough that it will become reasonable for me to go dual machine gun instead of machine gun/machine pistol.
Also the newest patch for the game is up now, so the Bee has been nerfed. I haven't taken a look at it yet to see if is going to alter the stats of items that have already been found, but it seems pretty heavy.
This is the build that I am using on my Gunzerker. I am using a Berserker mod, so I am getting bonus skill points to Last Longer, Yippee Ki Yay, and Lay Waste along with a Cooldown Rate reduction. After the patch I will probably switch my points in Money Shot to Divergent Likeness because I won't be using the Conference Call or Shotguns with this character because of the nerf to Amplify shield damage bonus and multiple pellet weapons.
If you want specific reasoning as to why I am using one skill over another feel free to ask.
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BOSTON -- The state supreme court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Michael Riley, who is serving life in prison without parole for the death of his 4-year-old daughter, Rebecca, in Hull in 2006.
Rebecca's mother, Carolyn Riley, was sentenced to life for second-degree murder and will be eligible for parole after serving 15 years.
The couple was convicted of intentionally giving their daughter a fatal overdose of prescription medicine clonidine.
Rebecca was 2 when Kifuji diagnosed her with bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Rebecca was given clonidine for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and Depakote for the bipolar condition.
Rebecca's estate and former Tufts Medical Center psychiatrist Kayoko Kifuji, who prescribed the medicine, settled a civil lawsuit for $2.5 million in 2011.
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So, if I'd like to pretend my Valentine cafe shelves from this year were out of a scene from Downton Abbey, I'll have to be honest with myself and say the kitchen décor turned out more like a kissing booth at the county fair. Don't ask me how these things happen. I'm inspired by all kinds of crazy. And I like to keep my family guessing. The good news is, they like it that way.
I hope you are taking the time to add a little love to your décor for your family at Valentine's Day. Don't forget, it doesn't take a lot of talent or moolah to make it special for them.
And I know I keep saying this, but this is another one of my easiest chalkboards ever... You really should try this!
I made the fan flare garland and big picks with the same method I used here.
And most of the other items are just things I pulled together from around the house.
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I want to create one menu for all users and then hide / remove items from the menu if they don't have access to the page the link leads to. This to me seem like an SOP. I really don't understand how this is not a core functionality. I can't possibly be the first one to want or think of such an idea. anyway
here is what i have so far I'm just not sure how or where to get the post id from
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'rm_menu_items', 10, 2 );
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If I have a laptop, and I want to install an Ubuntu 11.04 on it, but disk performance would be an important thing, then how could I test the real differences between:
- not using encryption
- using luks/aes 128bit
- using luks/aes 256bit
So I would Install Ubuntu 3 times, I just not know how to do perf. test (good).
What programs/methods could be good for such io performance tests? (or it affects the CPU too? - software encryption! my cpu doesn't has aes-ni)
e.g.: I would install a minimal ubuntu iso, with no gui+run tests in single user mode


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Source: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1999 Mar 1;43(4): 707-13
Many studies have been conducted to determine if androgen deprivation (surgical castration, estrogen, cyproterone, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists (LHRH), anti-androgens or a combination thereof) combined with radiotherapy is more effective than radiotherapy alone. In the March 1, 1999 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics, physicians from the William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan critically evaluate and synthesize these studies.
Similarly, the majority of the prospective randomized trials revealed an increase in the biochemical disease free survival but no change in overall survival. In fact, the only study that revealed a significant difference in overall survival was reported by the EORTC in 1998. In this trial, 79% for the patients treated with LHRH agonist and radiation were alive at five years compared with 62% in the radiation alone arm.


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My job requires me to work on a computer, which I do fine because maybe I fear my supervisor might pop in. But when it comes to doing personal projects on a computer, I totally slack off. It usually starts with going online to "research" and somehow I end up reading comic-book blogs. How do I stop this?
I use a Scrum Board, to see all pending task. But a very important note is to have it OUTSIDE the computer. If you google "Scrum Board" you will find a bunch of web based tools to have an online board. These tools are a great aid for distributed teams. But for you, having your distraction problems, I think having a the board on the PC, and also on the browser will not work well.
Also the Pomodoro Technique is a great tool, because on every break you can check out your board and it will remind you that you are late or have a bunch of pending tasks. Plan how many Pomodoros you will be working on each tasks so you can have a sense of Time Boxing.
You can check more about Time Management tools on this blog Time Management for the Agile Practitioner, is oriented to software developers but have common tools too.
First of all, I love reading comic-books also ;)
Second of all, believe me you are not alone in this situation. There are a lot of people kind of these problems. Definition of this word; Princeton University's WordNet says:
I think you don't like what you doing. You doing it because you fear your supervisor. It's normal. Who doesn't :) Find a way for feeling the same thing when you reading comic books for these kind of project. This is the best tip that I can give you. Get excitement when you doing these kind of stuff. Or learn how you can get..
Have you ever heard before the 5 more rules ? I never tried it but it seems to me good. Basicly, after you finish a task, done more 5 things like; read 5 more page, solve more 5 math problems..
I've found this site to work quite well in forcing me to concentrate on my current computer-tasks: http://www.marktaw.com/getbacktowork.htm
Actually, this is something I had to teach myself too.
Each morning as I arrived to work, I created a word document, and created a list of everything I wanted to get done today for work, then I arranged in priority.
Lastly I printed it out and put it on this monitor attached copy/clipboard, so while I was working, I can review the list of what I needed to get done each day.
But eventually as printing because unwise, I switched to one text file, that I kept adding new lists each day.
Find your own system, but make sure you look at it regularly.
You need a way to externally motivate yourself for the personal projects. One way is an arbitrary deadline. Another is to use a process/tool to keep you motivated. I did this with my attempt at Pomodoro.
This is general advice though because it depends on why you get distracted. Do you have trouble concentrating and getting in the initial flow or staying focused?
One of the methods that I use to keep my focus is to think of the things that I missed doing by not keeping focus and finishing the tasks at hand.
For example, if I continue to read Productivity.SE ;-) and let my tasks slip, I have put in time later one where I could be spending time with my family, or the tasks just don't get done and gets shelved. Another opportunity lost!


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I have a MySql server with 2Gb of memory. What's the best configuration to use then with best results? How can I "distribute" this memory fine to MySql server?
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This strongly depends on the application using the database. A good starting point for optimization is the MySQL Performance Tuning Primer Script
You can alter some values in your /etc/my.cnf file.
Some important ones are innodb_buffer_pool_size (assuming you are using InnoDB) and also query_cache_size. You should try to set the innodb_buffer_pool_size to 10% larger than the size of your data if you can. The default of 8MB really is woeful for performance.
If all your tables are InnoDB and the server is only used for databases, I'd set the InnoDB buffer pool (innodb_buffer_pool_size) to 3/4 of the system memory (1.5GB).
This is the pool of memory MySQL will use to cache both data and indexes of InnoDB tables. The larger it is, the more of your data and indexes can be kept in RAM, rather than read from disk when a query needs them.
RAM is cheap. Buy more memory. With smaller databases you want at least enough memory to hold the entire database in memory. With larger databases this isn't possible (you can't get 10 TB of memory in a single server for a data warehouse for example), but for smaller databases this shouldn't be a problem.
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Rough Drafts of Past Oscar Acceptance Speeches
ACTOR: Denzel Washington
FILM: Training Day
"I see how it is, I play a dignified black man my entire career: a noble boxer fighting for justice, an accomplished general in the Persian Gulf, a well spoken prosecutor in Philadelphia, and for all of that I get shit. Everyone' like, "You know, I just didn't find his performance believable." But in Training Day I act all niggerish and say "mawfuckah" and shoot people, and all of a sudden you're all standing up yelling, "Bravo! Now that' how you portray a negro. It' just so much more believable when he mispronounces his words!"
Go ahead and boo me. Probably expected me to get up here, put my Oscar on a gold chain around my neck and recite the first verse of "Momma Said Knock You Out," but you know what? I'm not compromising my integrity for a little golden eunuch. Fuck all of you. Especially Cuba Gooding Jr., you walking minstrel show. I swear to God, I'm even considering doing another one of those preachy Spike Lee movies that no one can ever sit through."
ACTOR: Tom Hanks
FILM: Philadelphia
"You know, ignorance occurs when people are too afraid to talk about a subject. Well, if this little golden statue has earned me anything, I'd like to think it earned me the courage to talk about something that most people in Hollywood are too afraid to discuss- something that I never would have thought to talk about before this film.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am NOT fucking gay. I think gay sex is disgusting. Once when I was 17, I tried to think about it while I was jerking off and went limp-like immediately.
I fuck my wife every night. Hard. Honey, on a scale of one to 10, how hard do I fuck you? No, they can't hear you, honey; show of fingers.
That's a seven, people, and if you read lips you know she said a "solid seven."
Speaking of manly-ass hetero shit, you should have seen how me and Denzel got down on the ladies in Philly. Let's just say we planted some vanilla chocolate swirl...(singing) on the streets of Philadelphia...nah nah nah nah nah.
That's right, I'm talking about my seed...big up, 'Zel!
Look, the fact is I jumped around on a giant piano a couple years ago and practically won one of these. I don't need this. I could just play a retard like Day Lewis in '88 or do a ridiculous Southern accent like Pacino last year. Better yet, I'll play a Southern retard! I think I even have a script like that, Forrest something or other. Guess I'll be seeing you next year. Hanks Audie 5000, bitches!"
ACTOR: Al Pacino
FILM: Scent of a Woman
"I played a gay bank robber with understated desperation in Dog Day Afternoon and the quietly intense Michael Corleone in The Godfather. And for those, you pass me over. Then, I do a meth-fueled Yosemite Sam impression for a couple of weeks instead of acting. I scream "sassafrass" and "hooo-waaaah" and you give me an Oscar?
For Christ's sake, at one point during filming I was so fucked up on gin and Ritalin that I screamed "servin' jalapeno dip to the apple seeds," and they actually put it in the movie. Go back and watch it, I swear it' in there. Why is that believable? The character' not deaf, he' fucking blind. Being blind doesn't make you scream like a lunatic.
So, in order to punish you, I'm going to play this exact same character for the rest of my life. That' right, don't matter if I'm playing a New York attorney or Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part 3, I'm gonna run around screamin' in an absuuud Cajun accent. See, I'm already doin' it. It' GREAT ain't it?
I've got a GREAT accent, and you've got your head ALL THE WAY UP IT, SWIRLIN' AROUND LIKE YOU GOT A HAYRIDE ON YO' POOPIE PANTS! I'M GONNA PUT MY SEED ALL OVER THE JUKEBOX FO' THE CHURCHFOLK! HOOO-WAAAH! HALLELUJAH! THE DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMY CAN SUCK M-"
(Speech cut short when Pacino' agent Tasers him)


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28 Dec 2012 10:28 AM #1
Unanswered: sencha touch and firefox for android
hi all ,
i'm developing web application by using sencha touch 2 , i have android , and i installed firefox for android on my mobile , i have tried to open the application on the firefox for mobile in my device , but it did not work .
what to do please to make it work ? because i have read the following
"Sencha Touch takes advantage of hardware acceleration to deliver an incredible app experience no matter what browser or mobile device a user is using"
i miss understood ? can you please explain to me
thanks a lot
29 Dec 2012 12:02 AM #2
can i develope mobile website by using sencha ? please help me , i have some confusing
29 Dec 2012 10:15 AM #3
its wrong question ? please help me , do u have something i can read ?