Well said. This thread is killing my faith in Slashdot.

Yes? It's hardly inappropriate for any fifth graders who actually find it interesting to read.

Because it's a great children's book? I read it in third grade the first time.

I followed three links deep and couldn't find anywhere that actually said what the 'pornography' claim is based on. I haven't read it since college but I can't think of anything that would fall under the term pornography.

There's no NDA in the beta. Non elective mode has 'slots' and you pick one of a selection of skills for each slot based on it's type. For example, pick a rage generator for this slot (bash, cleave, frenzy, etc), this slot you have to pick a rage spender, and this slot is for a utility skill. Elective mode just lets you pick any skills for your bar and gets rid of the slots.

Old news is old.

I received my only cease and desist letter around 06 for downloading a game I already owned. I'd left my NWN2 cds at home when I went back to school and just grabbed a new copy of it and used my cd keys for the install. The annoying part was they sent the letter to my schools IT department, who just told me I was in violation, so I deleted everything questionable only to find out it was the one thing I didn't delete because I legitimately owned. This is probably why I'm such a sucker for steam now and have 200+ games on my account.

I was thinking the same thing when debating if I should mention Gene Wolfe in this thread. The reason for mentioning him is that it seems like almost everyone who has found his works has done so by accident. However he's gotten more deserved recognition recently. I know he's popped up on several 'best of sci-fi/fantasy' lists in the last year. "The Book of the New Sun" is simply wonderful, that is all.

I enjoyed the e-mail correspondence with the Apple/IBM joke in the signature. Interesting what two decades would change.

I love my firefox, but it does in fact use a good chunk of memory. 16 tabs and a couple of days of uptime.

WS(K) ProcessName
1024060 firefox

Apparently the lameness filter hates dashes.

http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/01/dome.jpg The dome I grew up with.

While I don't really have too much of a horse in this race, and I don't think it's indicative of all outsourcing teams, I remember one gem from an internship I was working during college. We were given a code base developed by a 'guru' from eastern European country, I want to say Ukrainian. The product was an add-on for Outlook, and at one point I was given the problem of 'The app is slow with more then 10 contacts, almost unusable, speed it up.' After a bit of hunting around I found the problem was where the add-on was searching through the contacts lists trying to find a subset.

They'd managed to create a search algorithm with a big O of something around n cubed. I set about rewriting it to get it down to N all while wondering why on earth Outlooks API didn't support this relatively basic feature. It was at this point that I discovered that the API actually did support it, however the programmer had written a wrapper around the API hiding the method in question, then re-implemented it in the train wreck of code I was removing. That was the last time I ever worried about competition from cheap outsourced labor.

We do probably 60-70% of our hiring straight out of college. Now we aren't a large company (probably only add 5-10 people a year) but there are certainly plenty of places taking fresh outs.

Rose is more of the exception then the rule (at least I hope so) in that it only went co-ed in 1995? When I attended our gender ratio regardless of major was only 18-20%

There was no cheating in his story. If it was actually required work then the students wouldn't pass the test if they didn't know the material, if they understand the material what the hell do you care if they dance to the busy work for some teacher? If you want homework to matter make it 50% of the grade, don't do the retarded bullshit of "It's worth 5% but you can't take the test or pass unless all assignments are turned in."