I believe most cinemas will refund your ticket if you leave within the first 15 minutes of the film. YMMV.

On the other hand, though, who do you think is attending a screening of a "special, extended version" of The Wrath of Khan? It's a safe play for the organizers to assume that it will be mostly die-hard fans, and "rewarding" them with a surprise showing of a brand-new Star Trek film is a very inexpensive and effective publicity stunt. (FWIW, I read about this first in the mainstream media.)

I'm as cynical as most about Star Trek and Hollywood. But this is pretty cool, especially the introduction by Leonard Nimoy.

Don't sugarcoat it, man.

I'm not completely convinced of that. Sure, they all refactor their own code, but at some point they come up against their ego about it, consciously or not. This is why testers should be different people than coders - the tester won't have any reason to hold back, and the software will be better for it.

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Priceless.

Reading the story title, I thought this article was going to be about a colourful, wacky American named "Mississippi Bill." Drag that it isn't... :)

It's par for the course for them, IMO. The tone of the magazine is that of an ADHD fanboy with access to a very large marketing department.

Then again, maybe I shouldn't be too hard on Wired, as the ever-increasing irony of their name is amusing.

I can't believe the summary got "affect" vs. "effect" right, and "than" vs. "then" correct, but whiffed on "our" vs. "are." That's a new one for me.

I know. Using the sun as a unit of weight? Give me a break.

The Library of Congress has 30,011,749 books, and the average mass of a book, according to Google Answers, is 0.34 kg. The LoC, then, has a mass of 10,203,995 kg. So if they're saying the mass of this black hole is 7.9564 * 10^36 kg, then really, it should be 780 billion billion billion Libraries of Congress. :)

Is that a tub of Vaseline under his desk? I didn't think it could get any worse until I noticed that.

Mono could make the transition very easy for you, depending on what your doing.

Some of the larger game publishers could learn a thing or two from Kingdom of Loathing. It's witty, engaging, and has a great development team who are constantly adding content. The best aspect, though, is that it's up to you whether you play casual or hardcore. I really appreciate that.