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  1. Re:Here's my short list on When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    I'll never understand all the hate for VB.

  2. Re:Plenty of Fish on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention that we have 2 friends who also met their husband through pof.com. We should make a commercial.

  3. Plenty of Fish on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I met my current wife through pof.com, a free dating site. It took a couple of years of using pay and free online dating services. I also used a local dating service for $1200. I went out on an average of 1-2 new dates per week. 1 was the norm and 2 was maybe once a month. I ended up not liking most of the women and they didn't like me. After shelling out all that cash and spending all that time and effort, I ended up marrying a woman that made contact with me first through a free website! If I could go back and do it over again I would just focus on what I liked to do to make myself a better person and let it happen on its own.

  4. Re:Math on Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize · · Score: 1

    It was nice of you to go through all that trouble, but you could have done it without sounding like a dick.

  5. Re:Arrest them all, let the lawyers sort it out on Man Wins Partial Victory In Circuit City Arrest · · Score: 1

    I agree. Maybe a more sensible thing to do would have been to just show the cop the ID and work out the right and wrong of it with his supervisor afterwards. It would have saved him a lot of money and frustration. The CC manager on the other hand... I would want his job on a platter.

  6. Re:Foxit on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Foxit is good for general viewing, but don't ever try to print anything on it.

  7. Re:This "Feature" Has Been Known For Years on Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq · · Score: 1

    Acrobat Pro 8 has redaction functionality built in, so this shouldn't happen too much more. That is unless people will use text boxes instead.

  8. Re:Bush said he would sign the bill. on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 1

    I wish i had some mod points for you.

  9. Software sites on Businesses Scramble To Stay Out of Google Hell · · Score: 1

    These guys should ask a lot of these shareware sites how they get so high in Google rankings. I swear, every time I try to discover new freeware software by doing Google searches, I have to wade through piles of dung. Even adding "+freeware -shareware" and such doesn't help much.

  10. Don't format on So You've Lost a $38 Billion File · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to format unless you're changing filesystems. Just install to a new directory and clean out the rest by hand if you want to. Looks like he learned this lesson the hard way.

  11. Re:I know what I would put on it... on Write Your Valentine On a Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    I think it would be cool if that had a lot of $$$ around bought a huge chunk and put RED DWARF

  12. Equation Writer on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 1

    There is a flash app that you can buy for the TI-89 called Equation Writer that REALLY helps inputting long or complicated equations. It's only $15, and well worth it. I've been using it for about a year and a half now, and haven't gotten a math problem wrong as a result of inputting it into the calculator wrong since I got it. I bought it after getting mad in physics class. I input an equation the teacher wrote on the board TWICE and got a different answer both times. Both answers were wrong! They looked identical on the screen after being input in the pretty-print area. It was slight nuances of the parentheses that was killing me, but those kinds of errors are hard to catch on a tiny input line. Anyways, I bought it off of http://education.ti.com/ but I don't see it listed anymore. I still have it in my downloads area since I bought it, but that isn't helping me locate it. Sadly, Google isn't being much help either. It's called Equation Writer (EQW) 1.01.

  13. Re:Why do they have to make it hard on Third Microsoft Word Code Execution Exploit Posted · · Score: 1

    I can tell you've never used any of the VBA in Word. Executable code + DOM = $$

  14. Re:Well.. on Shopping Online · · Score: 1

    I'm the same way. I can't stand this shipping deception!

  15. Re:This is why.. on Defining Google · · Score: 1

    I never considered that. Thanks for the tip =)

  16. This is why.. on Defining Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..I've decided not to get a degree in computer science.

    Hi, everyone. I've been a lurker on these boards for a long time now, but just wanted to state this. I've wanted to be a programmer all my life, and have worked on projects on the side ever since I bought my first computer about 10 years ago. I consider myself talented.

    Anyways, this is probably the #1 reason I have decided to get a degree in something else (nursing maybe). This trend in interviewing is just plain rediculous and leaves one not caring about the job. There is only so much BS you can get spoon fed before revulsion kicks in...