When it comes to bacon, you always should. There shouldn't even be a second thought about it, it should come naturally to you, like a reflex.

That was '88. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_World_Series

Better yet, a World Series where they don't even appear.

Exhibit A: 1991. Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Five one-run games, three that went to extra innings, including the crown jewels: Game 6, single-handedly won by Hall of Fame Twins center fielder Kirby Puckett, with his leaping catch against the left-center Plexiglas to rob Ron Gant of an extra-base hit and a game-winning home run on a 2-1 changeup from Charlie Leibrandt in the bottom of the 11th. Game 7, a masterful ten-inning shutout pitching performance by Jack Morris, and a game-winning single by pinch hitter Gene Larkin with the bases loaded. I've got both games on VHS. Some say THE greatest World Series ever, and I agree (disclaimer: I am a Minnesota Twins fan). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_World_Series

The defense rests.

And yet, this system still couldn't run StarCraft II without melting the graphics card...

I prefer Serena to Venus.

So, this is my fault for making sure I'm properly prepared for my road trip by packing plenty of turtle shells, banana peels, and mushrooms? Unbelieveable...

Well, then maybe is Apple is right in trying to kill it off by not supporting it on the iPad and other devices...

So you have 0 friends then, eh?

And I agree with you. There are 11 Star Trek movies. But I'm curious as to how that other guy says there are only 9.

How do you get 9? Are you counting Wrath of Khan/Search for Spock/Voyage Home as one (since it's three parts of the same story arc)? Are you discounting the first and fifth movies (which were kinda terrible, IMO)? If not, which ones are you discounting?

Why are the Russians wasting their time to come up with a solution for this problem?! The United States Air Force already has something in place to take care of Apophis.

It's called SG-1. It's a four-man special operations unit, working out of the top secret Stargate Command, located under Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The team consists of Colonel Jack O'Neill, Maj. Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, and former first prime of Apophis and a member for the Jaffa alien species, Teal'c.

Just give Lt. Gen. Hammond a ring and he'll send them in. SG-1 will have this taken care of by tomorrow. No problem!!

My company has a simple, yet effective naming scheme.

First character identifies the type of computer. L for laptop, W for desktop/workstation (D is used for domain controllers) Second and third characters are for the unit code. For example, DE could be your Detroit office The last two characters indicate the year the PC was built (09 for 2009) The remaining 9 characters in the middle (our names are limited to 14 characters) are first initial and last name.

This tells you who the computer belongs to and how old it is. Nice for determining replacement cycles.

My unit within my company does things a little ass backwards from the rest of the corporation. They use user ID's instead of first initial and last name, and then add the last three characters of the PC's S/N to the end instead of a two-digit date code. Still get a nice result to quickly identify the owners of PC's when they start causing issues.

I hope Boeing continues to take the same approach to plane design that Nintendo does for Zelda games or Blizzard does for ANY kind. Take the time to get it right and make a quality product. I don't want them half-assing it to get it into production, then the thing falls apart when I'm flying it in. That would be very bad. I can live without the 787 for a couple of extra years if it means that using it won't cost me the time I have left on this earth.

As I understand, people are "shithousing" their code because human time is more expensive than computer time these days. The professors who taught me 5-10 years ago told me stories of how they had limited access to mainframes and terminals, and had to optimize their code so they could complete their operations in the alloted times. Now, with hardware being so cheap, but humans (even those overseas) are much more expensive. Yes, if they were taught programming practices to write efficient code, this may be less of a problem. But most of the best coders I've seen taught themselves, and I usually don't see them optimizing their code.

Anywho, that's my mindless random drivel on the topic...