Comment It's damping, not dampening. (Score 1) 260
I don't know why people like to toss that extra "en" in there. It's like when people spell ligthening for lightning.
Comment Do your own damn job. (Score 0, Troll) 283
They aren't paying you money to ask a bunch of guys on Slashdot. Do it your damn self or find another job that you're actually qualified to do without submitting an "Ask Slashdot" anonymously to do it.
Comment Re:What has anyone Hird of the Hurd? (Score 1) 875
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE HURD IS THE WORD!
Comment Summer to Fall (Score 1) 451
Sports:
September starts the NFL season, the NHL is kicking off to get ready in October. Baseball is entering the playoff stretch.
Gaming:
Get some concrete information on the holiday releases, as well as a couple great games that get released a bit before the season.
Weather:
It's getting cool enough where outdoor activities are really enjoyable.
All sorts of great stuff happens in Sept/Oct
Comment Very common, but take precautions (Score 1) 683
Towards the end of my projects we had lots of similar hacks. But we have it on a separate BRANCH, IDENTIFY it as a hack so it doesn't get reverse-integrated AND we #define it with the game name around it so it WON'T happen in the other games.
Comment Proper Use of Photoshop Trademark (Score 5, Funny) 964
Trademarks help protect corporate and product identity, and Photoshop is one of Adobe's most valuable trademarks. By following the below guidelines, you can help Adobe protect the Photoshop brand name.
The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form, or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product, and should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate these rules:
Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
Trademarks are not nouns.
CORRECT: The image pokes fun at the Senator.
INCORRECT: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
CORRECT: Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a hobby see their work as an art form.
INCORRECT: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form. INCORRECT: My hobby is photoshopping.
Trademarks must never be used in possessive form.
CORRECT: The new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software are impressive.
INCORRECT: Photoshop's features are impressive.
Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe.
CORRECT: The image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was manipulated using Photoshop.
Trademarks must never be abbreviated.
CORRECT: Take a look at the new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: Take a look at the new features in PS.
The trademark owner should be identified whenever possible.
Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
Comment Re:So they will find something else to charge you (Score 2, Interesting) 340
In the United States it varies state to state. But I'm in Pennsylvania, and that's how it is here. You get a DUI, they will charge you with both. The state considers them separate offenses.
Comment So they will find something else to charge you wit (Score 1) 340
They probably have 10 different laws on the books that overlap. They can just pick one of the others to charge you with.
It's like when you get a DUI, and they charge you for both "drunk driving" and "driving with a BAC of
StarCraft II Single-Player Details Revealed 206
As Blizzcon approaches, a number of gaming sites were invited out to California to get an early look at the single-player campaign for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Kotaku has a detailed write-up (spoiler-free version), and 1Up summarizes one of the missions: "... you're on a planet with an alternating day/night cycle (every five minutes, it switches): during daylight, you're safe. You can build forces and go out and destroy structures. At night, the infected Terrans will relentlessly stream towards your base — necessitating a strong defense against the 'zombie horde.'" An interview with some of the developers is available, in which lead designer Dustin Browder says Blizzard will continue their trend of having downloadable maps and other improvements throughout the game's life. BlizzPlanet posted a mission guide for the part of the game they got to see, and new video footage has been released that shows off the single-player mode.
Comment Re:Should I? (Score 4, Funny) 909
How long does a bear have to be? Is it proportional to long cat?
Comment Pines of Mar Gables? (Score 1) 572
So when is one of Obama's relatives going to buy him a Cadillac so Jack Klompus can start the impeachment hearings?
Let's just hope Biden didn't steal anyone's marble rye.
Comment I like having my code reviewed (Score 2, Insightful) 345
Which goes against the thinking for a lot of developers. They seem to take reviews of code personally, and believe everything they did is correct.
I go the other way. If my code is good, it will stand the test of a review. If one or a group of my colleagues looks at my code and doesn't find a fault then I KNOW it's good. I don't have to just THINK it because I believe so. If I can't explain why I did something in a review, it shouldn't get into production code.
Sometimes it's even simple stuff. I Do X, and someone goes "oh, we had to do it too, and wrote this bunch of code for it. Maybe we could combine the code into one usable module for both". It's stuff like that you can only really do in a good code review. It shouldn't JUST be done at a commit. It's something that should be part of the development process.
Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak 185
archatheist writes "Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have engineered a mouse whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for a different (human) version. This is interesting because the gene is implicated in human language, and this has changed how mice squeak. 'In a region of the brain called the basal ganglia, known in people to be involved in language, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Enard says. Dr. Enard argues that putting significant human genes into mice is the only feasible way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest living relatives.' The academic paper was published in Cell."
Comment Anyone else read that as Petoria? (Score 1) 100
I was wondering when they were going to annex Joehio.
Comment Sue them? (Score 1) 544
Why not take it to small claims court? They broke your laptop, they should fix it.
