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  1. Re:1.5 Trillion?! on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's another calculation: 200,000,000 x $150,000 = $3 x 10^13 This is the max they can go for. What's holding them back? Scientific notation?

  2. Re:Solution? on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 1
    Why can't you do both? If you can't figure out how to use any liberal arts degree in any environment maybe you should have studied.

    Math Major

  3. Re:Just using VIM on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Eclipse has a vi compatability plugin for $15 (or maybe Euros). Well worth it if you do Java. I wonder if it works in the eclipse++ IDEs?

  4. Re:That's not fair on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Ask a Marine. D-uuuuhhh

  5. Re:I love this show but it's being "MTV'd" :( on The Mismatched 'MythBusters' · · Score: 1

    Beakman's World was the best. It ended just as my oldest was getting tired of it.

  6. Re:Chicks... on Real-Time Strategy Games - Too Many Clicks? · · Score: 1

    Remember where you are. Most /.ers won't get it.

  7. Re:Do you remember brownouts? on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    We see it in the movies and on TV all the time. A criminal holds a gun to someones head, fires and says, "Look what you made me do!"

    Criminal behavior can not be justified because someone could have somehow stopped it!

    Regulators doing their job better would have helped and they let us all down, but the ones who do the crime are the ones who do the crime (If you notice, it's a tautology, so it's true).

  8. Re:Of course not, it's Farenheight 451 on London 2006, Meet London 1984 · · Score: 1

    This is the only poster that could identify the correct story???

    And they made it into a MOVIE for the non-readers (get it?)!!!

    Will viewers go stand on their porches and point out the criminal as he runs like a rat in the light of their righteous indignation? And will he be the actual criminal if the correct criminal won't cooperate?

    Read the story.

  9. Get rid of desk space on Making Modifications to Your Computer Workspace? · · Score: 1

    I was in a 6' X 8' cube for several years. I improved it by taking out one of the desk surfaces. It went from a U to an L and I got a couple extra feet as well as the ability to roll back and stay within my cube. You want space more than desk space. Good luck.

  10. Re:Adios, goodbye and see ya later! on Dealing With an Authoritarian Management Style In IT? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We all have to do things at work that seem stupid to us. There are an infinite number of reasons for them. If they are temporary and not unethical, OK.

    I've worked for both good and bad organizations that used the information control approach. The difference is the target.

    If it's to improve something, you can usually see the point and can get around it in particular circumstances, like talking to the group next door or your direct users. You can also have discussions among youselves aimed at getting the boss to buy in and use his political skills to help out.

    If the point is to stifle your voice, speak up and then leave. Go for internal transfers first. There are other groups in the company that don't like this treatment any better than you do. If the "manager" leaves, test the waters to see if you aren't going, too, but be ready to go.

    Companies that don't respect their workers don't deserve our respect. In IT, we are in a far better place than auto workers and airplane mechanics. Thank your lucky stars and take advantage of it.