The virus writers who have been holding back XP payload might have vectors that also hit Vista/7/8. With all the juicy XP targets to compromise, they can do more effective random IP address attacks like the days when XP Service Pack 2 wasn't around. So I'm not totally concerned, but just a little bit concerned that this could hose more than just the XP installations.

Ah, I was just making a dumb D&D joke bud. It sucks that so many people are coming out of college and not getting jobs anymore. It's this generation's plight.

The charisma person can negotiate deals and contracts. The rest of the company can be min maxed for their primary statistic for optimal productivity.

Politicians like to keep pointing fingers at other people at being the bad guys so less people points fingers at them.

As long as the law says it is legal to bribe politicians with campaign contributions, the only way someone will get in a significant office is if they're willing to take bribes. The system is designed to get crooks in office and keep honest folk out. Mandatory corruption is generally unsustainable in the long run.

Magic carpet 2's engine was way ahead of its time with deformable terrain. Its a shame they didn't keep using it. In mage battles, I found the easiest way to win was to make a mountain, then carve a hole in it and hide for mana regen, then burst people down, and hide in mountain cave again.

While we're talking about Microsoft and gaming: I wonder why Microsoft doesn't sit down with Turbine and cut a deal to do Asheron's Call 3. World of Wacraft is like over a decade old now, and Asheron's Call 1 is superior in some respects so if you adopted some of the WOW ideas into AC and made a new MMORPG, it could make a fight to take over WOW population base. MMORPGS are big money, but you need deep pockets to make a good one.

Yup, get into a bad habit of eating nachos with jalapenos regularly, and suddenly you're climbing the scale of heat without trying. It doesn't even take effort.

Besides the clunky controller, and the chicken and the egg problem of no developers...

The main problem with the OUYA is that it does nothing you can't get from a cell phone plugged into a TV with bluetoothed controllers.

Everyone has a cell phone, so the OUYA just seems redundant.

The dirty secret: Unlike sports where the best player is sought after, or music and art where you can judge someone's skill, most HR firms have no way of telling if you can do the job. So it doesn't matter if you're really good or just beginning, if you can sell the interview you can probably get a job. Some of the most talented people never get a chance to ever start, and a lot of nearly incompetent people get luxurious positions. Someday you might get good after decades of experience, but there's no reason not to apply to any job if you can write the most basic cell phone ap. Another dirty secret: A great majority of jobs ask for so many techs, there may be one or two people on the planet that qualify. So instead of looking for having all the techs, apply if you have one or two. Its a giant 'or' list, not an 'and'.

I say this reality situation as a guy on the outside looking in. I've done everything in my power since a young age to become the best software engineer I could. I code in my free time. I went to a #1 college for computers. Yet, couldn't even break into the industry in the past 11 years. The road goes both ways. I'm good at programming, and I'm not good at job searching.

There's no way to disable Twitter pictures in your feed, searches or @history.

The most common use of a Twitpic is to post a meme. And if that isn't bad enough, the second most common use of Twitpic is to post a shock picture. It is unacceptable that we can't have them disabled in the options.

For the most part homework isn't done by the parents. He needs to know what he's instructed to do. We encourage him in the thinking skills encouraged. You know how it is with math, there's a zillion ways to do a problem, but you teach the kid the most basic version first, then give him new tools in the arsenal.

I just remember when I was in first grade kids didn't get homework. I actually had to ask my teacher for homework because I was stoked for school, but maybe it's not best for every kid coming out of kindergarten.

Well the stuff they send home my nephew has word problems. How is a dude supposed to do word problems when he hasn't learned to read yet? And some of the words they use confuses even his family trying to help him.

They send kids home with homework in first grade nowadays. A lot of the instructions for the homework is hard for an adult to read. There's no way kids can even know what they're doing unless an adult instructs them.

I like how Bill Nye did it though. Bill Nye debated Ken Ham's Creationism which most Christians don't espouse. Ken Ham lost the debate because he said the flood deposited all the fossils which was disproven by Christian geologists of the 1800s. The way Bill Nye put it is that there are billions of others who hold their beliefs but don't claim the earth was 6000 years old.

Two weeks before the debate I asked the guy on twitter if he'd isolate Ken Ham's version of YEC away from the other actually possible theologies out there. I'm not sure if he got my message, but he did make the distinction that it isn't religion vs science. Because of this, I feel Bill Nye addressed the debate with a good degree of respect for other's beliefs. It is just that Ken Ham's YEC got proven false. I was very pleased with how the debate went. I knew Ken Ham was going to lose, but Bill Nye made it happen with class.

I went 11 years coming out of Carnegie Mellon without being able to score a serious software engineer position. Thankfully I make video games on my own to prove I have experience. I'm thinking of looking for a job if my latest game www.throneandcrown.com has failure to get popular. The fresh guy out of college is passed up because he has no experience. I was hoping I'd get a chance at finally getting my career started after I had a decade of experience I got on my own. I thought the decade of working on personal projects before that would help to get me a job coming out of Carnegie Mellon(which is supposed to be a good school for computers). But hey, not everyone gets a job, no matter how good they are at what they did. I'm not here to boast, but just to explain I'm competent, I've never ran into a bug in 22 years that I couldn't debug. My software runs fine and is complex (hundreds of thousands of lines of code). But will anyone even give me an interview for a junior position, nope. Things can't possibly get worse for me in terms of career as I get older because my career never started. I guess it sucks to graduate after the dot com bust.