Whoops. That should have been "co-op and firefight". Multiplayer works fine with/without a hard drive.

Anyone who bought a new 4GB slim version is screwed when it comes to co-op and multiplayer.

Having the flash drive does nothing.

How the hell do they release a title like this without some sort of testing, even when it was known way back in expansion pack Halo:ODST?

Agreed. Even on mobile, it's much easier to go through comment threads than rely on javascript to handle it properly.

Where is the "+1 Delicious" mod option?

Unless they specifically BUILD an exit for those higher paying folks. A Transit Authority never takes an existing road and turns it into a toll road. They build an entirely new infrastructure for that revenue.(Not sure if this is true...just makes sense).

We should see service improvement for extra pay, not maintaining the status quo and degradation.

I remember this exact issue!

Whenever we had an issue with these damn 270's, first thing we did was check the mobo.

It was incredibly easy to identify. The capacitors almost always had a domed top or actually leaked some dielectric fluid onto the mobo.

Dell was good in that the overnighted the mobo with a guy to install it the next day. It's not an excuse for Dell, but they did what they were supposed to.

It was actually a great learning experience for college-age me. I learned alot about software deployment scripts and all that fun stuff to build a stock of machines so that I could easily swap out a machine when the mobos inevitably failed.

Honest question:

Does it really make sense to try and hire US software folks? Is local talent that bad that Baidu looks for US folks or folks outside the US?

The US has good software folks, but is it really that much better than places like Brazil, etc., where Baidu could probably get a bigger bang for their buck if global growth is a priority?

I was sharing an office until yesterday with another guy who loved to yell at his wife...despite me being 2 feet away.

Now I'm in my own comfortable office, given in lieu any other mark of a promotion, like a raise.

I'll wait a few weeks for the package managers to get any fixes in them, but I fully intend on upgrading soon. It'll probably break my video card setup again, which'll require

I guess I'm just one of the few folks who are happy with MythTV on /.

It took a while to get it running smoothly. Plus, I can't think of any other projects that can manage schedules and records HDTV over clearQAM with the flexibility that a MythTV box does.

It's a pain, but, combined with the helpful folks at KernelLabs.com, it's getting better and better.

True, as I was looking at S/MIME with openSSL. That implementation would be quite clean, with the right certificates.

Turns out they wanted more than S/MIME and GPG/PGP was the next tool on the list to look at.

Also true about the webmail client. I have a firefox addon that'll do both sign and encryption for gmail, but never really have a use for it.

I was specifically talking about PGP vs. GPG.

But, according to my bosses, that proprietary stuff is better! It has support contracts and since we buy the license, that must mean it's good.

It's not like Opensource stuff comes close, right?

Well, that is true for Outlook email client interfacing, which is a crapshoot anyways. The rest OpenSource handles quite well.

Agreed. I feel like, while their brand has taken off(PAX, Rain-Slick Precipice, Child's Play), the comic quality has diminished to the point where it's hit or miss...more often being miss.

Same goes with Tycho's diatribes.

Honestly, I think that we're used to reading their stuff when they were bachelors. Now they are married and have kids, growing a gamer family. It'll probably click when I'm in the same situation they are, but right now it ain't.

Then again, this is only how I feel. I'm sure a lot of folks are pretty content with the quality of the site and what not.

If the comic/rants went to complete crap, the type of folks who read PA would quit reading it. (Then again, look at ctrl-alt-del...)

True story:

When Florida's new accounting software project, http://www.docstoc.com/docs/18152104/Auditing-Large-and-Complex-IT-Projects/(slide 26) Aspire, failed due to an ungodly amount of incompetence, it cost the state $89 million.

This includes the nearly $10 million already paid out, plus the unknown amount of money in lost productivity of the various agencies, etc. who paid folks to attend meetings, plan stuff, gather requirements.

So $89 Million could easily have actually been $100 Million+.

And they think $1 million will get them far into space?

Two actually(plus any that might go prepaid or non-major), but given that T-mobile isn't all that cozy with I-Phone 3g freq....yeah.