I think you get that message because your apps admin didn't enable profiles.

Anyway, I have an apps domain and got invited to google+ with my apps email and everything worked fine. I'm using it now.

Without knowing the # of households with cable, how can we see the significance of this drop?

No, I don't particularly like the action parts of Mass Effect anyway. For me it's all about the storyline, meeting characters and making though decisions.

I like ME1 a lot, but altough it's story is a bit more epic than it's sequel, the way the story is told in part 2 is a lot more engaging and immerse. The dialog is better and also brought better visually by offering more interesting camera movement.

And even though the universe to explore is smaller in part 2, it's also a lot nicer, offering a few hub worlds instead of just one large Citadel and all of the landing points are actually nicely designed levels instead of generic repetitive generated worlds.

All in all ME2 just feels more refined and realistic, while still offering a great story and interesting charactars and dialog. What's not to like?

One thing many first-day reviews of opera-mini said was that it was much faster then safari, even while on wifi.

I tried it yesterday (on wifi, since i have an ipod, not an iphone), and opera mini took serious time connecting to the opera servers, after which loading was fast. however, the opera-server connection pretty much killed it for me..

Opera mini is a nice try, and some things do improve on safari, but on the whole, what i really want is opera Mobile (and once the app store is open enough, CHROME) for the iphone/ipod

It sounds like homebrew provides a good solution. Perl (and Ruby and Python) already have mature packaging systems and they really don't need to interact with each other. So homebrew is a smart packaging system that plays nice with others.

Use unison (free) or Super Flexible File Synchronizer (better). Keeping several hosts synchronized is tough because of conflicting changes, temporary files, large stuff you don't want to transfer and moving files. You need a good UI and smart change tracking, which is what these programs provide.

I agree with most of your post, but Python, C, Lua, and Java are so similar, you shouldn't have any trouble reading through python code if you know one of the others. Especially with a searchable manual by your side.

Hacking on emerge would be harder, but all these langs are basically interchangable. If only they shared a reasonable ABI and VM so they could be mixed freely. But we are stuck with bloated crap like Java and Mono.

I see a dozen comments applauding your idea, but I think we need some counter arguments. Unless your hashing function is time consuming or you're a robot, it must be simple enough that a few examples and brute forcing would allowing guessing other passwords.

Just use the same set of passwords for all sites - it's simpler and as secure, more or less.

I also had a good experience like this in college. My iBook screen broke. I mailed it in and they fixed it. After a few weeks it stopped powering on. So they fixed it again.

Then I was sitting cross-legged with my notebook and the angle put too much strain on the ethernet, snapping it off the motherboard.

I tried to fix it myself with a soldering iron and after I put it back together it didn't work at all.

So I called and said it was broke - no questions asked, they sent me the latest model. They even let me downgrade from the 14 inch (which was just too big) to the 12 inch and they let me use the difference to get RAM and hard-disk upgrades.

if (!flag) // looks like I'm testing a pointer??
if (!count) // looks like I'm testing a flag??
if (!ptr) // looks like I'm testing a counter??

Not only should the name give a clue, but the type of the variable should be available within the past 50 lines or so. I have a bigger problem with the readability of complex conditionals and the !ptr syntax helps. Actually I'm interested if you can give an example of good code where ptr == NULL is more clear than !ptr.