Look, $50 for 1 GB is insane. 10 GB for $90? Not so much.

You get unlimited text/voice/etc for $40 per smartphone. Get 2 other friends to split the cost. Now, you're paying $70 (total) per month for your smartphone w/3 GB worth of data. That's not a bad deal, especially considering the unlimited voice/text and tethering. You can't get that good of a deal right now.

Hopefully, they'll come out with more frugal plans for us single folk, but I wouldn't count on it.

IIRC the US was mostly founded to make a profit giving people cancer, as the first permanent settlement (Jamestown) was in the business of growing tobacco. But labor costs were too high, so we found a continent where labor costs were lower and gave those workers "a deal they couldn't refuse".

Also, just because there is an official "state religion" it does not follow that one must have religious persecution. Take PA for example. Anyone remember the great war between the Amish and the Quakers? Good. Cause I don't either. Or really, any armed conflict involving either.

OS X is Unix. It is not "like" Unix, having received the Unix '03 specification some while ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X

...except that boost is slow, unreadable, still doesn't support unicode, and I can't find a single object in Qt where the boost implementation is better.

Qt tries to extend C++ elegantly and if they have to use MOC so they can continue to support legacy compilers while providing object introspection and great interthread communication fine.

It's actually much older. Ya see, the early Jews were at war with the Canannites -- probably more an ideological war rather than the physical one as very little evidence exists of an armed struggle archeologically from the towns of the same period.

However, it is true that their religion was pretty sexually liberated and there's a very good argument to be made that their sexual practices were central to the early idea of cultural identity if only to differentiate them to their neighbors. There's a reason why the word "sodomy" exists and also the better known passages in the Torah about a man lying with another man as with a woman (not sure where the prohibition on female-female relations occurs). As a side note, this possibly only prevents anal sex, not all homosexuality (indeed, flaming British playwright Noel Coward found the practice "disgusting" so I'm guessing he loved oral).

This is not to say there's anything morally superior about this position; Noah screwed his daughters after discovering wine -- but is never condemned for this. And he's not alone.

Given Teller's well-known liking of hookers and that he lives in Vegas, I'm guessing he's already pretty loose.

Put the cord in a nice pit with some lye and bury it for a while, then slow steam cook. It's delicious.

Others prefer their cords tartare but not for me! Storing works best!

Though the sample size is much smaller, the success rate is much higher. The theory here is different though: the HIV virus infects only T-Cells. T-Cells are responsible for "marking" bodily intrusions as harmful -- but rather than the traditional AIDs payload of "don't attack anything" going into them you alter the HIV virus's DNA to train the T-Cells to kill cancers. So in essence, it teaches your body how to treat cancer as an infection.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?pagewanted=all

“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.” ~CmdrTaco on the original iPod.

http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod

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Nokia bought TrollTech some years ago and while they didn't fire a bunch of employees after their switch to Windows Mobile, I'm guessing with this move TrollTech's development efforts will be harder to justify. It's unfortunate really.

On the positive side, unemployment here in Norway is below 4% at the moment. And maybe the strategic direction of Qt will go back to...devices people actually have.

I recently got a new job and have definitely seen a lot of this. It ranges from the esoterically retarded ("Can you call a destructor in C++ directly?" (The answer is yes, but it's a terrible idea -- so is there any difference in practice between never doing something and thinking you can't? Why not quiz me on goto syntax -- that's at least useful sometimes)) to one company I really liked that sat me down for 3 hours with a Linux box and said "Solve these 3 problems as efficiently as you can" -- all of which were fair and managed to solve all of them quickly, correctly, and I thought the resulting code was beautiful in its simplicity, efficiency, and readability. I also had fun doing it (hey, some people write entire kernels for this reason;)). I've also failed one of these so-called online tests for reasons of the above. Their loss. But why would I want to work for anyone who thinks some incredibly stupid test means anything?

The job I ended up taking? I sat down with their lead dev and we talked shop for an hour. He wanted to know what I did and how I went about doing it and we talked about how they're using CUDA to develop higher level APIs to make it easier to use the GPU for computationally expensive operations. And then we ate really good Indian food with the rest of the team.

So if you're in charge of hiring, remember, that good programmers are a scarce resource, and we usually have more than one offer on the table. Don't waste our time and we won't waste yours.

The best practice right now is to rip lossless but then convert to lossy for portable devices -- since they're space limited. Otherwise, like someone eluded to, you'll have the issue of lossy-to-lossy conversion which can eventually make music sound like crud. Otherwise, you're completely right...and I say this as someone who's played 1st clarinet in various ensembles in college as well as guitar for 10 years.

I don't get it. Someone finally built the phone you've always wanted and you refuse to even touch the device because you're not sure if Nokia will be behind it in a year or two? Either go at least try the darn thing, or I'd like to hear people complain less than no one has made an OSS phone. They did. Now it's up to us to see if it's popular -- not Nokia, not Microsoft, not AT&T. Doing otherwise is like a bunch of people not going to a party because they think no one will show up.

After playing Portal 2 on PS3, the multiplatform experience was a breath of fresh air. The PSN is not a money-maker for Sony -- just a reason to buy their console.

Steam already works on PS3 -- no more porting needed. Merging two large communities of players gives you a huge competitive advantage in the market over Microsoft and studios could publish truly cross-platform titles (competitive FPSes? Probably not. RPGs, strategy, racing, rhythm, fighting games? Sign me up!)

Lastly, Steam already owns the online PC market -- with the notable exception of Blizzard -- and they have something to gain here too. In the 10 years of its existence, I have never seen Steam down for more than a few hours and it'd give a chance for Sony to rebrand its online experience to something that's more reliable than the XBox live and still free.

Will Sony do it? Snowball's chance in hell. Would it be revolutionary to have a console/PC agnostic matchmaking/gameplay system? Yes. Do gamers want it? Every review I have seen about Steam on PS3 has been glowing or at the very least, having no complaints. The engineering's been done. All Sony would have to do is show some leadership.

Not that Anonymous are terrorists -- far from it.

But one of the challenges in making peace with loose organizations like Hamas, Mahdi Militia, or the IRA -- just to give a few examples -- and while the leadership of the organization legitimately wants a cease fire, they're not in control of their members. If some guy becomes disillusioned by a peace deal and wants to bomb something, he's going to and the organization he or she is part of can't stop them.

I wouldn't put it past them to be the same thing here. And again, regardless of what the 'leadership' does, until they start turning over members of their community to law enforcement when someone violates their code of ethics (in addition to the law), the acts being engaged in may continue to go more extreme.

That said, Sony's screwed if they think they can work this out without "negotiating with the enemy" or else seriously beefing up security.