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  1. Big Ugly Dish (BUD) Programing // USE IT on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was paying $100.00 USD per YEAR for BUD satellite programing. I was getting around 3,000 digital channels. I didn't sign up for any of the move channels.

  2. no. on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is my experience that giving development access to production gives you a production environment that looks like it has been vandalized. Although meaning well and trying to make the best application as possible; they need their own development lab, and their own staging / production lab.

  3. Re:who gives a shit? on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    old school; high school typing teachers. the kind that make you learn on a manual type writer before you can go to the more advanced electric.

  4. dropspacingandpunctuationmakrs on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    letsjustdropthespacingalltogether itdoesn'treallyaddanything whenyoulookatthehistoryofwritingspacingandpunctuationmarksarenewinventions letsgetridofthem

  5. Re:I like it on Review: Red Dead Redemption · · Score: 1

    sorry the word might be spelled "possy".

  6. I like it on Review: Red Dead Redemption · · Score: 1

    Got this day opening day. Was difficult to get; went to 4 places and they were sold out. Number 5 hit the jack pot. Looking forward to spending long hours playing this like I did with GTA-IV. I can't say enough about the on-line play. R* did good work on history and a lot of the slang from the 1900's. A few of the structured on line games are a bit confusing. Random interactions with other players and their posy's is true to the lawlessness that you would run into with people with weapons and questionable ethics.

  7. Re:Flashcards on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    I used flashcards to learn Egyptian Hieroglyphics, learn Greek grammar and learn the Cyrillic alphabet. When I pick up Chinese I will use them again.

  8. Re:Other reason on Music While Programming? · · Score: 1

    Your right on there. This guy sets in a mix work discipline environment. It must have been the accountants or the customer service group that complained about it, "we want to listen to music too".

  9. Re:Programming without music? on Music While Programming? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been doing SA work for 15 years. Only once did I see a director realize a decision was dumb and reverse it. Fire your boss and get out of there.

  10. Been there done that on Saying No To Promotions Away From Tech? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I started to go that route with my old company. I decided I did not want to hear coworkers / direct reports wining about "He wore a pink shirt today -- he knows I hate pink -- he did that just to bug me". The other conversations about employee's personal hygiene I didn’t enjoy much either. During a round of layoffs I took a voluntary separation package -- I volunteered to be laid off. They paid me nicely and I took the summer off. Now I am doing tech work again with another company and much happier.

  11. Over stimulation by options on Open Access To Exercise Data? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I bought one a few months ago. My brain was swimming with options and I didn't want to spend $500.00 on this equipment. I ended up going with a $100 timex solutions that does everything I need. I felt it was a good investment.

  12. Gym with in walking distance from work on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    This is how I pulled it off. I found a gym that was with in walking distance from work. I would go in early; park my car at the gym. Do my morning workout; take a shower then walk to breakfast then work. After work I would walk back to the gym; work out again and drive home.

  13. Re:Microsoft Rights Management Server? on How Do You Monitor Documents? · · Score: 3, Informative

    We use Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Track changes; make sure only the right people have the rights to get to what they need for their job / entertainment. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

  14. Re:Poor choice of words on New Results Contradict Long-Held Chemistry Dogma · · Score: 1

    500+ years ago scientists thought the earth was flat.

    No, they really didn't. Hell, over 2000 years ago the Greeks already knew the Earth was a sphere. They even knew its diameter! The idea that everyone ever thought the world was flat is entirely false - go ready a history book and stop perpetuating such garbage.

    It is flat. It is just gravity is curving it into a sphere. Please keep up.

  15. Same guy that came up with the rules for TRS-80's? on Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the same tactic that killed the TRS-80's? User groups, developers and software authors couldn't use the name "TRS-80" in their name, literature or products. This is one of the things that made it fail. Even though the TRS-80 model IV had more features other computers at the time; IBM-PC, pre-MAC Apple, &c.

  16. Just use it... on Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I spend less than $100 USD per year and get 4,000 channels off my BUD. Some are digital stations others are analog -- just like cable and other satellite technologies. There also HD options for BUD but I don't have the hardware for that. I am happy with the local HD programing I get from rabbit ears.

  17. Re:What's the point? on Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember something funny when writing floating point numbers with fortran code (I think). It couldn't read it back correctly. It was a show stopper.

  18. Re:What's the point? on Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL · · Score: 2, Funny

    It can generate the message, "Converting space into time" When it is reorganizing the file system structure to optimize how much data you and put on the file system; over how quickly you can access the data. We still talk about this message at work; and we haven't seen it in over ten years. We had the data center evacuated for safety when we first saw it.

  19. Re:Tom Cruise Missile on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    So, if a religion allowed and practiced same sex marriage; would the state be breaking the "interfering with a religion" law by not allowing it?

  20. 10 years ago is also when I... on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    I fired Microsoft from my desktop and made the move to Linux. I never noticed before but Microsoft picked the same day that is the anniversarys of Pompeii buried by Vesuvius, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and the Burning of The U.S. White House by the British. I wonder what this means?

  21. Select leaders by lottery on How Would You Change U.S. Election Procedures? · · Score: 1

    We should pick our leaders by lottery. Our current system puts people in power that want to be in power. If they really want the job - they should not have it. When it comes time to select new leaders everyone's name goes into "a hat" and who's ever name is drawn is in the that position. The rest of the world would not really notice a difference as the forgen policy radically changes every 4 to 8 years any way.

  22. Arabic in one place isn't Arabic in another on Foreign Language Learning Software for Arabic? · · Score: 1

    Another issue you will find is Arabic isn't the same in all countries ... or even in the same country. From what I've seen Arabic is just a reference to a character set, not the language. It would be like calling all languages that use the Roman / Latin alphabet (German, French, Spanish, Italian, English, &c.) Latin.

  23. root@localhost on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    For web sites that require me to enter a email address I have found that all of them will allow root@localhost as an email address .