Maybe if we all wrote them a letter on the back of a US$10 bill they'd notice.

I "work" with color science. We have an X-Rite spectrophotometer just sitting around. Takes an artist's thinking, I suppose.

I ran into a paper a while back where the author captured spectrum of 100s of "natural" objects. Rocks, leaves, skin, etc etc. Made for an interesting chromaticity diagram.

I can't even remember when I signed up for /. Been a long long time.

I visit several times a day, nearly every day. Even when out in the boonies of the world (Yachats, OR), I found a way. Dial-up and Links were enough to get my slashdot fix.

I jokingly say I have a living will: if I don't check /. for six days consecutively, consider me brain dead and unplug the machines.

Thank you so much for being a huge part of my geek life these last many years. Best of luck in your future endeavor.

(bows head)

Used Kermit from a 286 running MS-DOS 3.3, dialing 300 baud to our college's VAX. Ahhh, memories.

Programming.

The convention in C/C++ programming is to put preprocessor symbols in all caps.

#define THIS_IS_A_PREPROCESSOR_SYMBOL 42

What he said! I love numpy+scipy+matplotlib. Makes my life soooo much easier.

> Heard the same arguments with the W2K-to-XP process

The only reason I upgraded my work machine(s) from Win2k to WinXP was WinXP rebooted faster.

Vista, Win7 don't run my tools any faster, don't reboot any faster. So I really don't have any reason to upgrade.

I upgraded Win2k -> WinXP -> Vista -> Win7 at home for games. But here at work, WinXP works the same as Win7.

USB is an astonishing pain in the @$$ compared to the simple TX/RX/GND of US232.

You have control interface, bulk in/out, a complete PHY with all its weirdness (DMA IO maybe?) and required code.

New boards with flaky USB have crashed my systems more time than I can count. I have to reboot USB hubs on a regular basis.

RS232 I've never had any trouble.

I'm now logging off the internet, forever.

I will never EVER again read anything simultaneously so true, so sad, and so funny.

ThreadX forever!

I'm still employed and hope to be continually employed.

But in my spare time, I'm furiously hacking away on my own GPL'd application to:

1) perhaps sell it (in the MySQL model)
2) add new skills
3) add something additional to my resume

Scary economy has effect of making me work harder.

Yeah! says the iguana.

http://www.pvponline.com/2006/05/16/may-16-2006/