Comment Re:Of course they won't.. (Score 1) 446
Thanks! I really should watch that movie again. I've apparently forgotten most of the good parts!
Comment Re:Of course they won't.. (Score 1) 446
Were there any other major quotes? That's the only memorable line I got out of that movie (though it's been a while since I've watched it)
Submission + - What is the best API experience you've had in the last few years? (otixo.com)
obscuro writes: "Our team is planning on rolling out an API for all aspects of our product. We want to give developers the best experience and value possible. What are the best experiences and pricing models you've seen?"
Comment Re:Well that cinches it for me (Score 1) 608
"Recommend" does not mean "has power over". He can tell them when to meet and when not to meet, and give suggestions. He can't tell them "this is the law you will pass now".
Comment Re:Well that cinches it for me (Score 1) 608
As I recall, that almost happened in the US this past summer.
Comment Re:Here be no surprises (Score 1) 608
Well bear in mind that saying the PAC funds Obama is not the same as saying they fund ONLY Obama.
(Yeah I'll go away now :D)
(Yeah I'll go away now
Comment Re:Pass the buck (Score 1) 172
Problem is, no one wants to be the guy who said "aw this is just a joke, he won't bomb the airport", and then it turns out that it wasn't a joke. Yes, you're gonna be right most of the time, but the one time you're wrong.. You're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Submission + - ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 (ign.com)
kungfugleek writes: Throughout the launch of subscription-free MMO Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet has stated that the player-experience is their top priority and, if necessary, they would suspend digital sales to protect their servers from crushing loads. While the launch has been considerably more stable than most big-budget MMO's in recent months, some players, especially those in Europe, have experienced trouble logging in and getting booted from servers. So yesterday, ArenaNet held true to their word, and temporarily suspended digital sales from their website. Personally, I think this is an incredible show of customer-centered focus. To turn down purchases, especially first-party purchases, where the seller gets a higher percentage of the sale, during a major title's first week of sales, would be inconceivable by other companies. Is this a bad move for ArenaNet? Will there be enough of a long-term payout to make up for the lost sales? And does this put pressure on other major studios to follow suit in the face of overwhelming customer response?
Comment Re:Summarized (Score 1) 487
I highly doubt that Rihanna is a better singer then whoever else you mentioned. But that's not the point the point. People know her, and that is what matters. Hell it's even in the dictionary definition:
rock star
noun
a famous singer of rock music
The keyword there is famous
Hence a rock-star programmer would be someone that everyone knows. And hell, it might not even be that they're famous world-wide. Maybe it's just the guy in your company that everyone goes to because he does high quality work.
rock star
noun
a famous singer of rock music
The keyword there is famous
Hence a rock-star programmer would be someone that everyone knows. And hell, it might not even be that they're famous world-wide. Maybe it's just the guy in your company that everyone goes to because he does high quality work.
Comment Re:Best Preference (Score 1) 468
Wait I'm confused. So who pays for it then? Or are you saying you do have a right to access health care that you pay for?
Submission + - Russian find a new particle (science20.com)
physburn writes: "The Russian Dubna Nuctron accelerator has reported finded a new elementary particle. The E(38) Boson at 38 MeV, it interacts only with quarks and gluons, but decays (via quark diagrams) into pairs of photons. The particle was previously reported in February from data from the BaBar experiment, and the new data seems to confirm its existence."
Comment Re:Sounds like win-win to me! (Score 2) 666
The gun has to be that old. This is because the law was passed in or around 1986 and cannot apply retroactively to weapons made before it was in existence. At least that's my understanding, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Submission + - Curiosity rover writes Morse Code of JPL everywhere it goes | John Graham-Cummin (jgc.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The Curiosity Rover that landed on Mars today has a neat feature in its wheels that allows it to spot if it gets stuck. The wheels have an asymmetric pattern of holes in them that leave a distinctive imprint on the surface of Mars. The rover views these marks with a camera to determine if it has traveled the distance it thinks it has. This 'visual odometry' means that Curiosity can spot if it's slipping or stuck and call home for help.
The pattern on the wheel prints JPL in morse code in its tracks on Mars.
The pattern on the wheel prints JPL in morse code in its tracks on Mars.
Submission + - What's the most depressing sci-fi you've ever read? (blogspot.ca) 2
50000BTU_barbecue writes: Usually sci-fi provides adventure with happy endings for everyone. But what story have you read that resonates years later because of some insight about human nature or society that's basically cynical or pessimistic? For me it's Fred Pohl's "Jem" with its sharply divided resource-constrained future world driven by politics, and its conclusion that humans are just too destructive to handle contacting alien life, especially if humans have the technological upper hand.
I'm wondering what other stories have stuck in people's minds. It can be a short story, a novel or an entire series of books.
(Sorry, I have no idea what the tags are supposed to do or how they work. I click and it becomes "!politics" or there's a picture of a hat. No matter what I type in "tags" it stays as "politics" with a "x" I can click to make it "!politics". I've rarely seen something so useless be so counter-intuitive. sci-fi doesn't work, but when I type "science fiction" the space bar apparently acts as en enter key so all it sees is science. I think my next submission will be about depressing user interfaces.)
I'm wondering what other stories have stuck in people's minds. It can be a short story, a novel or an entire series of books.
(Sorry, I have no idea what the tags are supposed to do or how they work. I click and it becomes "!politics" or there's a picture of a hat. No matter what I type in "tags" it stays as "politics" with a "x" I can click to make it "!politics". I've rarely seen something so useless be so counter-intuitive. sci-fi doesn't work, but when I type "science fiction" the space bar apparently acts as en enter key so all it sees is science. I think my next submission will be about depressing user interfaces.)
Comment Re:no, it's not fair to the shark (Score 1) 85
what you are proposing dooms the shark to die a slow miserable death due to the load of nasty diseases you carry in your mouth as a member of diseased lecherous species, homo sapiens.
So.... I should bite the shark back? Sounds like plenty good revenge. You know, considering that the shark has just "masticated and shredded" me.
