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  1. production on Why Users Hate IT Products and Developers · · Score: 1

    Software apps are changed to increase production. People that get screwed by the small changes get screwed because they didnt understand it in the first place.

    If all you know how to do is 2+2+2+2 and now the program does multiplication 2*4 instead, thats how screwed users are when they sit down at windows xp from windows 95 norm.

    I think that the only changes that piss people off are the ones that are visible through use. Autocorrect in Word is a godsend, changing teh to the is great, but clippy popping up and telling me that Im writing a letter and eating my keystrokes is a pain in the ass.

  2. Re:We got it on How to be a Programmer · · Score: 1

    I accually didnt notice your sig or name, but since your gay and dont like to hang out with stupid people(girls, the whole punchline of my comment), you should be a pretty happy man.

  3. Re:We got it on How to be a Programmer · · Score: 1

    you dont like to hang out with stupid people, are you gay?

  4. Re: Intuitive on Why We Refactored JUnit · · Score: 1

    its just a loop

    just generalize it for the morons

  5. Re:I hate sports. on Superbowl XXXVII · · Score: 1

    yes, because sports symbolize the perfect society.

  6. duh on Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and at cox.net (cable) formly @home the default password for all email and web services is password

    its not like this type of stuff is uncommon.

  7. HHI on Discovering New Music? · · Score: 1

    Hip Hop Infinity

    God Loves Ugly ;)

  8. Re:Pricing? on Tom's Hardware Reviews Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    maybe if you read the faq youd get rid of the UE

  9. Physc on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 1, Informative

    take a class, read a book, learn. Its around age three if I remember right, we cant remember those years because our long term memory isnt needed or developed.

  10. Napster on Fanwing Planes? · · Score: 1

    Anyone else think that the napster kid got into planes when they glanced at the title?

  11. Re:loophole on Internet Access via Cell Phone HOWTO · · Score: 1

    while your downloading data your using your voice minutes, kinda pointless. Unless someone hacks VoIP so that you can do long distance.

  12. as a computer science tutor... on Examples of Programming Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    the biggest error is using assignment when you want to compare, ie if(foo = bar) instead of if(foo==bar)

  13. Re:NOT! on Flat Screen Monitors Sales to Reign This Year · · Score: 1

    A 15 inch flat panel is basicly a 17 inch crt. A 15 inch flat panel has 15 inches viewable and a 17 inch crt has 15.1 viewable.

    For office work no CRT beats my 15 inch flat panel. For gaming, my response time per pixel is around 40-50ms so I only get 22-35fps, its still very good for games.

    And you can get a 18 inch flatpanel for 499 at costco. Thats a sane price to me.

  14. Arizona on Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's a dry heat.

  15. Duh on Rivers Ran with Gold... 3 Billion Years Ago · · Score: 1

    you think deposits are formed by rain? lol

  16. 486 too on Nintendo Embedding Classic Games on Trading Cards · · Score: 1

    I remember like 4 years ago I went to a local tech show and a company had credit card size 486 computers that had a small plug in the side that was an extension to plug in devices, was quite cool. So having a video game as a card shouldnt be that hard.

  17. Re:Lazy Programming on Chip Makers Selling Fewer High-End CPUs · · Score: 1

    theres no delay on the sniper rifle, its point and shoot, it just appears to shoot slow because you have a shitty ping. The aim works like halflife(or more like quakeworld), not quake3.

  18. Re:Lazy Programmer Syndrome on Chip Makers Selling Fewer High-End CPUs · · Score: 1

    dont forget team fortress 2

  19. Re:It's a Computer, AND a Delicious Treat! on Watercooling Made Easy · · Score: 1

    Do you think people use their whole brain?

  20. Consultanting companies are at fault on 235,000 Software Engineers Can't Be Wrong, Right? · · Score: 1

    A lot of firms do this in india, H1B lets you move employees from a foreign company that you own into the united states for the wages they earn in their home country.

    So basicly you can get a consultant working for 10,000 a year + living expenses and then bill him out as a professional to another company for 1/2 of what they pay their guys. They pinkslip all their guys and hand off all their work to the h1b holders, cutting costs.

    The h1b people accept the indentured servant status because they will eventually be able to get citizenship, not a bad deal.

  21. Re:EBWorld on Neverwinter Nights is Gold · · Score: 1

    And that would be why Warcraft3 is gold on ebworld also I guess. Even though blizzard hasnt announce it.

  22. EBWorld on Neverwinter Nights is Gold · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought it only went gold at ebworld... because it takes time to ship. Retail stores get it in 4-5 days

  23. Have you seen? on Salon on Video Games and Free Speech · · Score: 1

    the Soldier of Fortune 2 Video?

    http://www.runubi.com/sof2/sof2.zip

    Personally its kind of cool to do things that I'll never be able to do in real life. That said, get this video and it depicts the most real death animations ive ever seen. The best part is the game play is good too.

    Goodbye Counter-strike.

  24. Re:Motion sensor of dubious value. on TV People Meter: Monitoring What You Watch · · Score: 1

    And if the room lights are off, how does the motion sensor not detect the blinking lights of the TV as motion?

    because a motion detector doesnt use light.

  25. Whatever on Playstation 3 In the Works · · Score: 1

    I guess you guys dont have any friends with a xbox.

    We play halo every night with 6-16 people in the dorms. Its fucking awesome, beats things like counterstrike hands down.

    Xbox will win simply because of multiplayer.