My comment was mostly sarcasm, with a tiniest bit of rage intermixed. Really I'm just damned sick of not being able to purchase decent concert tickets. ex, 5 minutes after they go on sale which is as fast as you can get through to order all that is left is the nosebleed sections.

Just make it a law that its illegal to resell tickets for anymore than the face value.

Hell why don't we just go all the way and print the purchasers name on the damned ticket and if you don't show up at the event with positive ID sorry out of luck.

There are a lot of companies that mandate the standard of what goes on the Corporate machine image and are slow to update. For example the one I work for got to IE 7 (on XPSP3) as a standard over IE 6 about a year and half ago. The only thing thats going to bring them kicking and screaming to IE8 is the looming upgrade to Windows 7. The upgrade to Windows 7 isn't even a serious consideration until sometime next year.

I love that tool for my windows editing, if something that replicated its functionality that was as easy to use and learn existed for *nix world...I'd be in heaven.

Yes there are lots of editor tools, but I have yet to find one that works as easily (and intuitively at least for me) as UltraEdit. I have never had to access the help for this tool its that easy, but at the same time hugely powerful!

Clone that! Make it work native in KDE! Yeah that would help immensely.

At various times I have had to take over other peoples code, usually those with less experience or without my eye for efficiency.

In the end this typically means that I have been able to reduce lines of code through optimization, moving commonly used code into functions and classes, etc.

I've probably deleted about a third as many lines of code as I have written.

When my kid reaches school age can I make sure she doesn't get exposure to this blatant pack of lies. Will there be a letter sent home so I can OPT her out of gettig this "education".

"Of course, I wonder what happens if I buy an "off lease" laptop, that was at one point activated..."

The Original Vendor (DELL, IBM, etc) has the ability to reset activation state.

I have worked with Computrace at one of my previous companies, and I always knew it was total crap.

It doesn't even work as advertised most of the time and defeating it is so simple a 5 year old with some skill could do it.

Both are these series are long over due for new entries with updated tech driving them. A reboot would be good. In the case of the Star Wars titles new entires that include the ships from the Prequel Trilogy would allow for adding fresh content. Perhaps even serving to provide a story arc. Fresh new Pilot in the days of the republic to grizzled Vet in the days the rebellion.

I went over the details one thing I am confused about is in this situation is the internal or External IP of the router that is Key here?

It's the Razor Model, the iPOD or any other similar device is the handle, you get that free or cheap, the Music is the Blades, thats where the really cash is in the business.

I fail to understand why Apple doesn't just throw the doors open anyway, they make the best handle, I doubt any significant portion of the music buying public would stop buying the iPod. And even so Apple still makes a pile of cash from the music sales.

I can understand trying to build a storyline to try to build a base to build the story on, but to spend an entire season doing so...not the way to make good TV. They spent the entire season moving towards something, but we never really got any idea of the something until the last 45 minutes of the season.

let me spell out a basic point here: Terminator = Action there was little action this season.

I was a manager of several Babbage's stores way back in the distant past. Babbage's was the company (along with Software etc after a merger) that Gamestop came from. All the way back then we were allowed to "check out" software. The rule at least then was that you could only do so if the software didn't require registration or keys to use. So pretty much no Microsoft software, but most other software and video games of the time were fair game.