Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 452
Best time sink ever!!!
thank you Blizzard.... or should my failed career and I curse you?
Comment Re:Perforce (Score 1) 268
With all due respect to the many excellent coders who have contributed to this thread, IMHO the tools and methods discussed seem to be a rather free lance version of coding.
I have worked in areas of the computing worlds where coding is tightly controlled by humans and not software. Review boards, meetings, team efforts....
IMHO, relying of software to enforce proper coding practices is lazy. Communication is the key... Communication among coders who CAN communicate should be without question. Revision control software is not and should not be a mind reader.
And finally gvim >> emacs...
Comment Re:Hogwash (Score 1) 817
damn that was great!!!! cleaning monitor right after post....
Comment Re:If it's legal? (Score 1) 785
It is texting while holding the [hone under the desk that is the problem. I know, I have had calls from my son's teacher...
Comment Re:back in my day (Score 1) 785
You don't have a 16 year old in high school then... Sure, if the teacher is exceptional, texting will be down. But not stopped. Hormones my man... hormones...
Comment Re:i liked the biological overtones (Score 1) 336
+1 insightful...
Nice post.
not to mention probably hardwired into our psychology as a threat, again, from millions of years of exposure
How true... Nothing freaks me out more than then egg laying critters that use animals as hosts.
Also if you choose to and AvP to the discussion, I liked how the Aliens killed one of their own to free the queen. That shows evolved hive instincts.
Submission + - Austria to pull out of CERN (google.com)
andre.david writes: From AFP: "Austria is pulling out of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns.
The 20-million-euro (26.9-million-dollar) yearly membership in CERN [...] makes up 70 percent of the money available in Austria for participation in international institutes and could be better used to fund other European projects, he said.
Hahn said he hoped Austria could find "a new kind of cooperation" with CERN and described Vienna's withdrawal from the project as a "pause", noting that some 30 states were already working together with the Geneva-based centre without being members.
The newly-available funds will now allow Austria to take part in new European projects, boost its participation in old ones as well as help the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the country's main organisation funding research."
Austrian particle physicists are not happy with this. From HEPHY, the Austrian Institute for High Energy Physics: "All of a surprise Johannes Hahn [...] announced that he wants to terminate the Austrian membership at CERN [...]. This [would] affect spin-off projects like the planned cancer treatment center MedAustron [...] which is dependent on collaborating with CERN [...]. Strangely enough this intention just arrives at a time where scientists are about to harvest the fruits of LHC [...]."
Will other countries follow suit?
The 20-million-euro (26.9-million-dollar) yearly membership in CERN [...] makes up 70 percent of the money available in Austria for participation in international institutes and could be better used to fund other European projects, he said.
Hahn said he hoped Austria could find "a new kind of cooperation" with CERN and described Vienna's withdrawal from the project as a "pause", noting that some 30 states were already working together with the Geneva-based centre without being members.
The newly-available funds will now allow Austria to take part in new European projects, boost its participation in old ones as well as help the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the country's main organisation funding research."
Austrian particle physicists are not happy with this. From HEPHY, the Austrian Institute for High Energy Physics: "All of a surprise Johannes Hahn [...] announced that he wants to terminate the Austrian membership at CERN [...]. This [would] affect spin-off projects like the planned cancer treatment center MedAustron [...] which is dependent on collaborating with CERN [...]. Strangely enough this intention just arrives at a time where scientists are about to harvest the fruits of LHC [...]."
Will other countries follow suit?
Submission + - Calif. v. Mass: The battle over non-compete clause (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: "A case filed with superior courts in California and Massachusetts involving a former EMC top executive who is trying work for HP is pitting the two states against each other over whether non-compete agreements can keep an employee from working for the competition. California says non-competes hamper a person's ability to freely traverse the marketplace for work, while Massachusetts says the agreements actually afford freedom to develop technology without the fear of IP theft."
Comment Re:It's pretty standard these days (Score 1) 329
Then maybe the definition of a good drummer is imprecise. And who should be voting? Fans or other drummers?
Comment Re:How to stop internet crime (Score 1) 242
Thats right! Direct democracy can never work. Which is what made Switzerland such a hellhole
Switzerland Pop. 7,591,500
U.S.A. Pop. 305,690,000
California Pop.36,553,215
So you see, direct Democracy sort of works in California. But as you see, the majority just put a minority into a second class status. I cannot image the horrors of letting over 300 million people vote on issues of Rights. Switzerland doesn't even have the population of Los Angeles county, 9,878,554. So your example is not very valid when talking about USA.
T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta 249
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday Engadget Mobile received a nice letter from Deutsche Telekom / T-Moblie demanding that they stop using the color magenta on engadgetmobile.com. ("Yep, seriously" they say.) Today several sites have gone magenta in a show of solidarity."
Submission + - 22 Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting
Submission + - Shooting Massacre at Virginia Tech
ConcernedStudent writes: "A violent gunman has apparently unleashed a deadly massacre on the famed science and tech campus, Virginia Polytechnic University (better known as Virginia Tech). The first reports of gunshots were received by police around 7:15 A.M. but shooting continued across the campus for hours longer. Over 25 people are now confirmed dead with many more injured. The shooter appears to have either killed himself or to have been killed by responding police officers. The New York Times has posted front page coverage, and the local Roanoke Times has been providing blog-style coverage, updated regularly.
NYT Link — http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd-shootin g.html?hp
Roanoke Times Link — http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/113294 "
Submission + - At Least 22 Dead At Virginia Tech
wiredog writes: At least 22 people have been killed and 21 more injured by a gunman (who is one of those killed) at Virginia Tech. This is a more people than were killed in the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.
A statement from the University President here. Coverage from the BBC, and The Washington Post.
Submission + - At Least 20 Dead in Virginia Tech Shooting
StarvingSE writes: Virginia Tech police state that at least 20 are dead in a campus shooting school officials are describing as a "monumental tragedy." From the article:
"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said university President Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."
The attacks mark the worst school shooting incident since 1999 when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado
This story is a little off-topic on a technology-related site, but I'm sure quite a few readers attend or are alumni of Virginia Tech.
"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said university President Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."
The attacks mark the worst school shooting incident since 1999 when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado
This story is a little off-topic on a technology-related site, but I'm sure quite a few readers attend or are alumni of Virginia Tech.
