Yeah, he turned Star Trek into Star Wars. So I guess he probably would be a good fit.

Besides, If the movies are going to have one good point, Max Von Sydow. As villains go, he doesn't disappoint.

Yes, there were many, especially the non-arcade ports from Atari and most of the games made by Activision. There were even a few good third party games but those were few and far between. While most of those games were great for the time, many are still pretty good games today. Games like "H.E.R.O.", Demon Attack, Kaboom, Haunted House, Yar's Revenge, and Megamania still hold up well as fun today.

The problem with the Atari is very similar to what happened with the Wii, plenty of good games that got so totally drowned out with crap that people stopped caring. But while people could turn to the 360 and PS3 with the Wii, the Atari 2600 was pretty much synonymous with video games and the whole industry tanked taking other viable consoles with it.

The entire series was donated to The Internet Archive I find it awesome watching the old episodes to see how far we came. Seeing laptops that boast about a fantastic battery life of 2 hours with an *OMG* color screen or seeing a Panasonic rep saying about how the 3DO will kill Nintendo is a great nostalgia trip.

In exchange for free bleeding edge software. Software that may contain new awesome features but may also contain game-breaking bugs. It is a gamble and a trade-off that some of us are more than willing to make.

It's a FOSS cross-platform personal wiki. It has all the advantages of wikis without the bothersome markup language. It is best parts of being able to link notes together mixed with a simple rich text editor.

Simple and Easy to use.

A Keyboard and Mouse isn't superior to a Console Controller. They are merely different. Sure, I would never want to play and RTS or a FPS on a controller. However, I would hate to play a 2D Platformer or 3rd person game like Arkham Asylum with a keyboard. Just as the best way to play Wing Commander and the like is a joystick. Different tools for different jobs.

What makes a PC great is the support for any type of controller you have and a huge back catalog of games going back 20 years (or more with DOSBox or other emulators).

I prefer the engineer's method. It involves a screwdriver.

Second. I wish it was more featureful as it's parent program SpaceClaim, but it is pretty easy and moderately powerful. I also wished it could export STEP files, but oh well.

This is my favorite printer. It has a pretty decent resolution, the software is easy to use, it is practically print-ready from the box and has a decent print area of 5"*5"*5". Once calibrated, I have had very little trouble with it and the parts I print are fairly nice (for ABS plastic). I have made custom models and toys, keychains for cousins business, device mounting fixtures for work, household objects, and stuff for my Mom's crafts. For the ~$1500 price tag, I have nothing but praise.

However this is a hobby printer. Do not go into this thinking you can start a business of making and selling parts. It only prints in one color. Except for the smallest parts, builds take hours. For large objects, layers can warp and crack. Parts can be a pain to remove the support material from. This advice applies to pretty much any hobbyist printer on the market. They are pretty much more trouble than it's worth.

If you want to do printing as a hobby or have a hobby / job where designing and / or making custom plastic parts is important, by all means buy one. They are a great deal of fun and making your own custom parts can be a huge time and money saver. However, If you think you are going to spin this off into some sort of business, don't bother, we are not there yet.

Bull, there used to be a thing called company loyalty. There was a time when many companies had the loyalty of their employees because they treated them with respect. You knew these companies because a good portion of the employees were there for decades. These were the companies where a person would get hired fresh from school, trained, and work their way up the ladder and eventually retire with a nice fat pension.

Everything started to change around the 80's, now everything is about buzzwords and short-term profit. You start treating employees as replaceable at a seconds notice and people will stop seeing their company as nothing but an income and a line on a resume. There was a time that if you had a long list of jobs on your resume people wondered why you couldn't hold a job. Now, it is seen as a sign of success.

Yes and No. Writing a quick VB program to make your work flow a little easier, no not engineering. Programming a PLC, multiple robots, and a PC running custom vision identification software to work together as a cohesive manufacturing platform, that is very much engineering.

Because there are currently no laws against strapping electrodes to your head. There are laws against dropping LSD.

This isn't about emergencies. Shit happens and hard deadlines have to be met. Most people will not argue that there are times when overtime is necessary.

The problem is when this mentality becomes standard operating procedure. Bosses start treating salaried workers as a way to exploit overtime laws. There are plenty of examples of companies that consider 60 hours to be the new 40.

Where I work, the corporate policy for salaried workers is 45 hours. We recently got some new hires and they told us that they got a pep-talk from the boss when they were hired that they are "expected a minimum of 60 hours and that 80 is normal". Of course, this is the same boss who drones on and on about how much he loves the Chinese work ethic. That they will work from 5 in the morning until 11 at night, they eat while working and take all their business calls after hours to ensure productivity. All this for a fraction of the pay of an American worker.

Needless to say the office has become hell since this guy took a more direct role in our affairs. Lots of good people were fired, even more have left for greener pasture$. Apparently engineers with family lives are make for worthless engineers.