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  1. Re:Oh Ya... on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    My Russian friend once paraphrased or transliterated a very excellent Russian proverb:

    Don't give a fool a crystal dick. He will break the dick and cut his hands.

  2. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Less red tape? It took me 7 years and the intervention of a local MP to finish my Canadian immigration as a teen ager. And my mum had full Canadian status...

  3. Re:Vavle's credit? on Left 4 Dead SDK Beta Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Steam is awesome. Just kill yourself. How much do you play without an internet connection anyways. You're complaining about being locked in to the _best solution possible_ from the _beast people possible_.

  4. Re:I have a feeling.... on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    DX10. HDCP. You know, all that cutting edge entertainment shit.

    Not that XP couldn't do it, mostly cuz they won't let it.

  5. Re:Venus on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Listen, I'm not going to argue the science but what drives me bonkers about both sides of the Global Warming debate is that it completely misses the point that affects us and our surroundings the most: pollution.

    Heavy metals in the water, shitty particles in the air, poison in our food. I don't understand why we bicker about the temperature when it's undeniable how much trash we have injected in to our surroundings.

    Is clean air, water, and food too much to ask? I'm not even talking about deforestation, over-fishing, and the deleterious affects of industrial agriculture.

    We have a footprint, and a great big ugly one at that. We don't live responsibly. Global Warming is a big red herring and I sometimes wonder who benefits from us focusing on it.

  6. Re:Terrible camera work on Why Every Office Needs an Outsider · · Score: 2, Informative

    No kidding. One can jury rig a steady-cam (Stick + Counterweight = steady-cam) for like $15.00. Even if you only shoot video casually for shits and giggles you should have one. If you intend to publish it to a real audience then for god's sake make one.

    Or spend $850 on a Merlin and honestly get your money's worth on the first shoot if you're a "professional".

  7. Re:Woo on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 1

    Japanese pronounce neither letter. They have some strange hybrid of L, D, and R and it depends on the Japanese person whether it sounds most like one of those three. They have a hard and obvious D, but they also have the one that straddles L and R.

    (So off-topic...)

  8. Re:I tried Eve... on Setting a Learning Curve In MMOs · · Score: 1

    Uhh, cutting edge in graphics? I'm going to let you guys fight this out and go back to my shooters...

  9. Re:Microsoft releases iPhone app FAIL! on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    I just downloaded the app. Photosynth works perfectly fine.

    You quoted one source, not multiple. Did you try it for yourself?

  10. Re:congratulations on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Sorry to be a prick but why doesn't your daughter just e-mail you instead? I'd rather e-mail than MMS, but I'm not much of an MMS'er so I'm mostly clueless.

  11. Re:Innovation pays on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Uhh, dude. There are not only multiple versions of remote desktop clients but also a smattering of Office clones.

    Don't worry, we will see a real office suite soon. (I want one too!)

    Saying there is no remote desktop is ignorant as balls. http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_rdp.htm

  12. Don't forget services! InstantAction and GameTap! on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    Leave bookmarks on each computer and make sure they have everything needed to play the free games at instantaction.com.

    Lots of goodies for free.

    Install a GameTap account and let them play the free silver games. All sorts of neat old-school arcade games, they rotate the free games, and they can play the infinitely awesome Psychonauts. (Which will probably murdalize the hardware but oh well.)

  13. Re:India on Google Zeitgeist 2008 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Allow me to alleviate their confusion, I can help with #4!

  14. Re:Sure! on NFL's First Broadcast In 3-D, Still Has Work To Do · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the beautiful leathery skin of 30+ year old professional beach volleyball players...

    I, personally, could support a college indoor volleyball channel. Could those shorts be any shorter? Could those chicks be any taller? There's too much hotness going on there; thank god they're of age and don't make me feel like a pre-vert.

    Cheerleading competitions on ESPN and women's gymnastics on the other hand... that's pedo territory.

  15. Re:Sure! on NFL's First Broadcast In 3-D, Still Has Work To Do · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This just in: Athletes should wear baggy pants otherwise insecure career nerds will feel threatened by alleged homo-eroticism.

    You don't like football. Stop posting in a thread about football.

  16. Re:Define soul. on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Plasma Rockets Suck. on Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test · · Score: 1

    Yes but LCD suffers from more interference and dithering. We do want our force fields to interfere with space, yes? At least the nasty pointy bits.

  18. Re:Please, read what you write before you post it on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    This is SlashDot. The discussion is _always_ more insightful than the summary and often the article.

  19. Re:Very insightful point made in article on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 1

    Please stop perpetuating this myth of fast/un-split DSL. The max bandwidth of modern cable murders that of shitty phone copper in most realistic settings. (Helloooo, copper from the 40's, 50's and 60's?)

    Newsflash: All ISPs split their backbone connection amongst customers. Please stop pretending that only cable internet has to split a backbone, local circuit or not.

    (I myself live amongst retirees who, while all being on cable, wouldn't know how to use bandwidth if their lives depended on it. You should consider moving away from universities, for more reasons than just bandwidth.)

  20. Gametap, Old Console Emulation on PC Gaming Suggestions for Console-like Fun? · · Score: 1

    Gametap! (No. Seriously.)

    Retro Emulation. (With an emphasis on the SNES. ZSNES is the obvs one.)

    15 dollar gamepads from Radioshack.

    'nuf said.

    Oh wait. THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND. That game can make any woman a gamer. No lie. Make sure that you have a nice stereo hooked up.

  21. Re:That's an easy one! on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    I don't expect much, except Earl Grey, hot. I want replicators, you animals. NO delivery time. NO cook time. Cheese pizza, hot. God bless the replicator.

  22. Re:Closed Network no more on AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, too bad network operators are going shaped and closed!

    People laugh, but we really need to consider protecting the right to an open network constitutionally. It should be a human right, it has ramifications to all aspects of your survival.

  23. Re:Smuggling milkbones on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    I don't know... do you find 'The Glove' to be funny? Ticklish, maybe? You could have more Milk Bones up there. (well you will, anyways)

  24. Re:The best advice won't come from a book. on Transitioning From Developer To Management? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It will come from the people to manage.

    A good mentor would also be important. Start having lunch with an old boss that you really liked. This is the best advice in the topic. Your job is to optimize the output of the people below you, often by making their jobs easier. (It's no use paying someone lots of money to order pens and paper from Staples, etc...) They will tell you what they need, you just have to listen and empathize (DIFFERENT THAN sympathize, managers often have to make some very un-sympathetic decisions). A great manager is one who balances those needs with the needs of his/her bosses while making both parties happy.

    I highly recommend you subscribe to the RSS feed for Harvey Schachter's Monday Morning Manager (or just read the "blog" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/wschachter). It's a weekly column from The Globe and Mail and is a smorgasbord of brilliant tidbits for just about anything a manager might encounter. He does a great job bringing together helpful information from a variety of sources, and this leads to a lot of information that you can dive deeper into should he touch upon something highly relevant to your situation. (This invaluable resource was given to me as a tip when I asked a very similair question to yours to a very experienced colleague, i.e. someone who has been a manager or executive for longer than I have been alive.)

    You should read Lee Iacocca's book Talking Straight http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Straight-Lee-Iacocca /dp/0553278053/ref=sr_1_5/105-8765761-4870004?ie=U TF8&s=books&qid=1188360344&sr=1-5.
  25. Re:Someone got $3000 bill for using iPhone in Euro on iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long · · Score: 1

    It seems like in the age of mobile data usage that simple data odometers, if you will, should be in a phone's tools sections just like alarm clocks and tip calculators...

    I use a dinky phone with an unlimited data plan but do still appreciate the few programs that have KB counters for you. Google Maps for Phones is a good example.