Maybe that's my problem. I only used KDE4 for a week before throwing up my hands and went back to 3.5 So if I want to do this right do I have to use KDE4 for another week or do I have to start over again from the beginning?

Now I know who to blame.

I spent many many hours playing empire when I should have been doing something usefull. For the sake of my current productivity, please reassure me that there is no linux version.

Actually there is:

http://www.amazon.com/Joomla-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/047043287X

In the hitchhikers universe anyone who wanted to be president was automatically disqualified from actually becoming president.

I sometimes think that would be a pretty good system.

Or just about any episode of MythBusters.

Heat in the winter is nice. Heat in the summer is another matter entirely.

Paying for that heat twice is even worse, the first time to generate it and the second time to remove it via air conditioning.

2 possible answers.

1) Incompetence
2) They have someone in mind that they want to give the job, but who is not qualified, so they make sure that no one else is qualified either. Once they fail to find any qualified applicants they can ignore any requirements and give it to whoever they want.

*ALL* the buildings are better. I doubt it. Unless its an expensive area there are simply too many people who are not willing to pay for quality and will insist on the cheapest possible job, and there are too many builders willing to comply.

Every population is bound to have some idiots, the larger the population the more idiots there will be. But since idiots attract more attention then average the whole population gets tainted. To make it worse many idiots are so sure of their genius that they actively try to promote their idiocy.

Remember half the population is below average.

Unfortunately in any forum/social networking site/online community there will always be people who will try to game the system for their own benefit. That benefit may be financial or it may be social (ie top ranking). The trick is building a system that rewards participation and discourages the gaming. I don't think anyone has managed to get it right yet.

Perl is a language that can be written at many levels. If you use every shortcut and every default action then you are going to get a program that only an expert can decipher. However by avoiding all the little tricks you can create code that is clear and understandable even by someone who has limited experience with perl.

Until you start with regular expressions, then all bets are off.

Are you not then making some assumptions about the collective intelligence of the average lottery player?

Actually slashdot adds nofollow to many, but not all links in comments. I am not sure what the criterion for nofollow vs dofollow but many of the links on this page are in fact dofollow.

Which is good for us/bad for them.

When these kinds of services (meaning flicker et al) open up their api to public use there are always some who cant figure out why.

Well folks, this is the reason why.

I betting when the executives at flicker sat down to decide if they were going top open up the api, they had no idea that someone would use it to create a map of the sky.

The subhead states "Bacteria treated with compound lose their resistance"

My question is what is treated?

If treated means "immersed in a strong bath of the compound for 2 weeks" then the compound may not be very practical. If treated means "a small dose included with the antibiotic" then the treatment is very practical.

The fact that the article was not very specific suggests its not the latter.