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  1. Re:some numbers on CBS News Fields SWG Hatemail · · Score: 1

    Where do I send my resume?

  2. Re:Need a different monitor on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    You're both wrong. It is clearly the Triforce from the Legend of Zelda.

  3. The Container Store on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a container for everything...

  4. The best quote from the article on Why Personal Websites Matter · · Score: 1

    "A resume can contain false information. It is much harder to fool people with a website."

    I should have stopped reading at that point...

  5. Re:I guess it's that I'm such a cheap bastard... on Star Wars Galaxies - Patch Woes? · · Score: 1

    That's a bad analogy. When you sign up for telephone, cable, or most any other service you are charged a "connection fee." Exactly like buying the boxed game...

  6. Ikaruga on Megaman - Network Transmission Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Ikaruga proves that you don't have to have fancy schmancy 3D stuff to make a great game. It just has to be fun.

    --Steven

  7. Re:Yeppers on Starcraft - Ghost Delayed Until 2004 · · Score: 1

    The problem is Hofstadter's Law:
    It always takes longer than you think, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

    --Steven

  8. Re:Isn't that what titles/labels/tooltips are for? on Susan Kare: Mother of Icons You Love (or Hate) · · Score: 1

    "Cut"

  9. Re:PHP is the destination on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    Umm, what? You easily write procedural code in Java. Just because you have to write fancy words in certain places doesn't mean it isn't procedural, e.g.

    public class MyModule
    {
    private static void myProcedure()
    {
    System.out.println("I am in no way OO! Yay!");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    System.out.println("Wheeee, I'm prodedural");
    myProcedure();
    }
    }

    And who ever said procedural code was bad? It's just a different way of organizing code.

    --Steven

  10. Re:Tests are only as good as your requirements�. on Test-Driven Development by Example · · Score: 1

    So write tests only for the cases your code can handle. If someone asks if your code handles extensions, you can look at the tests, see that there's not one there, and confidently answer "No, but I can add that..." Your tests are then invaluable in describing the functionality of your system.

    --Steven

  11. Re:Anyone else? on Sony: Case of Right vs Left Hand · · Score: 1

    Because information is easy to copy and distribute. What incentive would a novelist have to write if there were no copyrights? They'd be better off as a construction worker, and the world would be worse off. Seems pretty cut and dried to me...

    --Steven

  12. Re:how about on Playstation 3 Gathering Components · · Score: 1

    IMHO, GTA _is_ its own genre.

  13. Re:who's responsible on Should You Trust Website Customer Reviews? · · Score: 1

    "...then the only actions that can be taken are public outcry, and possibly an e-mail campaign." [emphasis mine]

    I'm sure Amazon trembles at the thought.

    --Steven

  14. Re:Aaargh on Scientists Attempting to Create Simple Life Form · · Score: 1

    How about Bill Joy?

  15. Re:There is only one rule in good cooking... on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 1

    You may be surprised to learn that ALL microwave ovens work that way. The "power" setting doesn't control power, but how long the magnetron (the thingy that emits microwaves) stays on over the course of the desired time. The downtime between bursts allows the heat to travel by conduction through the food. If you're interested in this stuff, I highly recommend this book

    --Steven

  16. Re:Carrot Juice Is Murder! on Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking · · Score: 1

    This is necessary. Life feeds on life...feeds on life...feeds on life...

    --Steven

  17. Re:Utensiles on Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking · · Score: 1

    Well, if you can scrounge up $23 for his book, there's a list in the back of essential stuff to get. He particularly recommends a good cast iron skillet I picked up one at Ace Hardware for $15. Also, check his essentials page.

    --Steven

  18. Fudge factor on Einstein's Theory To Go Beta Testing · · Score: 1

    One of the lead researchers says that if Einstein's theory is not right, it will only need minor adjustments to account for changes in space-time, due to its deadly accurate precision.


    It's obvious that E = mc^2 + 1.479 .

    --Steven
  19. Not too big on statistics, eh? on Microsoft to Introduce GBA-competitor? · · Score: 1

    I saw three little kids in carts this weekend playing their GBAs and I think that shows that the GBA is really for younger kids.

    Yeah, I'm sure that's a representative sample. Man, the logic in these posts keeps getting wackier and wackier. Well, I was playing my GBA this weekend, and I think that shows that the GBA is really for 20 somethings.

    --Steven

  20. GTA3 on Speaking Out Against Australian Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    You censor have the Internet, but I refuse to recognize any country that will not let me get my daily GTA3 fix. Commie bastards!

    --Steven

  21. Re:Kurosawa films on New Years Marathons · · Score: 1

    That's not the way I see it...

  22. Re:Black and White on Creative Games sans Violence? · · Score: 1

    Sure, I can just see Junior petting his tiger lovingly while you're watching; when you're not, however, he's teaching El Tigro to munch on villagers, hurl lightning bolts and beat the hell out of opposing creatures. Meanwhile, he's burning the nonbelievers' towns to the ground with his gnarled red fist of pure evil, laughing maniacally all the while. He was bad before, but now he's got a God complex...

    --Steven

  23. Why should we listen to this guy? on Software Aesthetics · · Score: 1

    Just for kicks I decided to check the HTML of the article. Not surprisingly, I find the following markup repeating:

    <p class="DefaultText" style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%">

    Truly elegant HTML would have defined another class for this style. I suggest the author of this article pick up a copy of The Pragmatic Programmer and follow tip 11.

    DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself.

    --Steve

  24. Finally.... on This Book Will Self-Destruct In 10 Hours · · Score: 1

    Now there's finally a good reason for the computer mounted in front of my toilet...

    --Steve

  25. TV Series on The Rise Of The 15-Year-Olds · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's also a 4 part Next: The Future Just Happened series running on A & E this week. It started yesterday and continues tonight. Check your local listings.

    --Steve