This is not joking matter! Next up on the agenda is Oxygen sequestration, a noxious, highly reactive, corrosive gas that instantly kills most cells it comes into contact with and, in high enough concentrations, can set just about anything on fire!

And don't even get us started on dihydrogen monoxide!

Depends on whose code I'm editing.

If it's my own, then emacs.

If it's someone else's, then usually vi since I'm probably in a hurry.

IDEs I play with every once in a while, but invariably I hit some silly brick wall where it's better/faster/dareIsayeasier to bring it up in emacs.

I have been using notepad++ on Windows a lot lately, and just wondering what the closest thing to that there is on Linux. It's the only thing I've seen that combines the feature set of emacs with the snappiness of vi while still having a pretty consistent GUI. I have to admint I learned a lot about what emacs can do by discovering features and plugins in notepad++ and Googling how to do that in emacs :-P (speedbar, whitespace-mode)

Sublime Text editor was a lot of fun to play with if only for the multi cursor mode, but there's a great howto on doing the same thing in emacs.

Have you tried gvim?

(ducks before he gets yelled at for making people launch that abomination in X)

Eh, all good points.

I think the mistake was just in making it a heavy-handed ban. Bringing out the ban hammer just turned it into a joke.

I'm sure they will successfully reintroduce the behavior-modification measure by creating a higher sales tax on large drinks. Which will probably have an as good or better impact as a silly ban that people would gladly find ways to circumvent just to "stick it to the man".

We have these luxury taxes on alcohol that corresponds to the proof (one tax bracket for wine and beer, another for hard liquor). It could certainly work like that, and not come across as freedom-limiting nanny-statism.

Yeah, with enough hand waving, anything is plausible. You could have something in between a low energy transfer on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... and waiting lots of time, or some kind of slingshot, or just burn fuel to do simple transfers between orbits. But I guess since your propulsion is on all the time for artificial gravity, you're kinda doing a propellant-assisted slingshot. The slingshot does require the planets and the sun have to be lined up just right, so it does make sense that the company wants to depart early and use more fuel on a longer journey, because they wouldn't get as much gravitational assist if they had waited a week for Venus and the Sun to be in a better position relative to the source and destination.

I'll just leave this here:
http://www.despair.com/mistake...

Sad, though, I remember when I used to hit freshmeat.net as much as slashdot.

I am glad, though, that I got a good chunk of my life back when I learned to just rely on aptitude to keep stuff on my system updated for me.

Still, I ought to go and compile a kernel for the heck of it though, for old time's sake.

Heh, I lived on a steep hill where I usually had to parallel park and they had even/odd parking days. That was fun to keep up with, especially in the snow and ice. At least I had a front wheel drive manual.

Heh, cool :D I guess that explains why they both have better caricatures of american culture than the Americans could pull off :P

How was it that the main character had such terrible Russian voice acting, whereas all the other Russians and even the Thai prostitute had more authentic accents? That was another thing that sort of drove us up the wall about GTA4 :P

OK, I'll say something nice about GTA4... I did get a chuckle out of the achievement tracking for flying things under bridges... that was something missing from most flying games :P