Government for the corporations, by the corporations. We might as well change the constitution....

"We the Corporations of the United States of America, in order to best subjugate, and bleed the masses...."

I refuse to use that other stupid name.

The Series had a highs and lows, I think the thing that killed it was to much character development, not enough conflict and exploration. Its a show about going to some unknown place, but they have never gotten anywhere. And for Christ sake, turn the DAMN lights on! The Ancients could build Atlantis and the Destiny, but they couldn't equip the ship with a decent f**ing light bulb.

Adobe patches are crap in general.
1. They usually take the form of nearly complete product updates, patches 80% of the size of the installed product are common.
2. They currently only rarely issue roll-ups so you end up in the you have to have 9.3.1 base, then install 9.3.2 patch , then install 9.3.3 patch can't jump from 9.3.1 directly to 9.3.3

This sort of stuff drives the guy at my company in change of Adobe software deployments insane. For a new machine install it takes forever as each individual patch is installed by the software deployment system.

My comment was mostly sarcasm, with a tiniest bit of rage intermixed. Really I'm just damned sick of not being able to purchase decent concert tickets. ex, 5 minutes after they go on sale which is as fast as you can get through to order all that is left is the nosebleed sections.

Just make it a law that its illegal to resell tickets for anymore than the face value.

Hell why don't we just go all the way and print the purchasers name on the damned ticket and if you don't show up at the event with positive ID sorry out of luck.

There are a lot of companies that mandate the standard of what goes on the Corporate machine image and are slow to update. For example the one I work for got to IE 7 (on XPSP3) as a standard over IE 6 about a year and half ago. The only thing thats going to bring them kicking and screaming to IE8 is the looming upgrade to Windows 7. The upgrade to Windows 7 isn't even a serious consideration until sometime next year.

I love that tool for my windows editing, if something that replicated its functionality that was as easy to use and learn existed for *nix world...I'd be in heaven.

Yes there are lots of editor tools, but I have yet to find one that works as easily (and intuitively at least for me) as UltraEdit. I have never had to access the help for this tool its that easy, but at the same time hugely powerful!

Clone that! Make it work native in KDE! Yeah that would help immensely.

At various times I have had to take over other peoples code, usually those with less experience or without my eye for efficiency.

In the end this typically means that I have been able to reduce lines of code through optimization, moving commonly used code into functions and classes, etc.

I've probably deleted about a third as many lines of code as I have written.

When my kid reaches school age can I make sure she doesn't get exposure to this blatant pack of lies. Will there be a letter sent home so I can OPT her out of gettig this "education".

"Of course, I wonder what happens if I buy an "off lease" laptop, that was at one point activated..."

The Original Vendor (DELL, IBM, etc) has the ability to reset activation state.

I have worked with Computrace at one of my previous companies, and I always knew it was total crap.

It doesn't even work as advertised most of the time and defeating it is so simple a 5 year old with some skill could do it.

Both are these series are long over due for new entries with updated tech driving them. A reboot would be good. In the case of the Star Wars titles new entires that include the ships from the Prequel Trilogy would allow for adding fresh content. Perhaps even serving to provide a story arc. Fresh new Pilot in the days of the republic to grizzled Vet in the days the rebellion.