I feel for you.

Our thermostat is apparently (from talking to one of the service guys) attached to some sort of early-1800s analog pipe nightmare elsewhere in the building. We can set it anywhere from high 50s up through 90s. When we make any change, there's some hissing sound (it uses pneumatics to communicate with the mother-ship).

However, these changes to the thermostat have absolutely no impact on office temperature. This summer was especially fun. Some days the fan wouldn't even start when we had it set to 60 and the little needle for current temperature was literally off the high end (95+), and other days I would need to wear 3+ layers in the office, even though it was still at least 85 outside (often warmer). The only thing that works is to call up the aforementioned maintenance guys, and have them turn some valves (literally!) on the main unit, and see how that changes things.

We've finally stabilized around 65-68, which is a little chilly for me but I'll gladly accept it given the alternatives. Also, here in southern California, we usually have the option of opening up the office a little if the temperature is especially far out there.

Not to nit pick, but I think you'd want to take meds for your OCD if the clock being one hour off while you sleep was causing issues.

Actually, the next election for US Senator from California is for Feinstein's seat in 2014, so 4 years. (Citation)

DotA (the name of the original game) is an acronym in which the first and last letters should be capitalized (the 'ot' standing for 'of the' is uncapitalized).

Valve's (technically: VALVe's) new game is "Dota 2". It isn't an acronym. There was a bunch of legal posturing about who owns the right to the original name a few months ago with Valve/IceFrog (current maintainer and developer of DotA) on the one side and Riot Games/Guinsoo (the DotA developer/maintainer before IceFrog took over) on the other. Apparently their workaround for avoiding an even bigger legal fight over it is to use "Dota" as a word, instead of an acronym.*

Take a careful look at your post: the name "Dota 2" is always capitalized correctly, and the acronym "DotA" is also always capitalized correctly. It's easy to hate the Slashdot editors for all the things they (don't) do, but at least this time they did get it right (even if it isn't spelled out or obvious why it's right). You'll also notice that the main article (the gameinformer one) has the same capitalization throughout when referring to the original vs the newly announced Valve version.

*This paragraph is just hearsay I heard on the internets (except it is true about there being some legal back-and-forth between Riot and Valve), so feel free to take it with your daily recommended dose of salt.

Just to add on to your point. In the Mutalisk micro video, it's pretty clear that the mutalisks are prioritizing destroying siege tanks over goliaths. While that might be all well and good in some sort of base defense, or ground/air simultaneous attack, the videos are all of an air-only attack on the enemy base. The siege tanks are literally doing nothing but taking hits, while the goliaths represent the only actual threat to the Mutalisks (except the turrets in the final part of the video). Add on to that that IIRC goliaths take less damage to destroy then siege tanks.

Most human players would realize to attack goliaths before siege tanks in the same scenario, since they are both a softer target and a more immediate threat. Destroying them first means the Mutalisks could continue to harass the enemy base without taking any harassment back. However, the AI doesn't realize this and keeps attacking siege tanks whenever they are present.

Guild Wars has a great way of doing this. Basically, anywhere you use a character name (friends list, ignore list, guild*, whisper), it works if the player is on any character on the same account.

A few examples from the GPs account setup would be..

If I add Joe to my friends list, and later he's on Ed, then I'd see on my online friends: "Ed the Dwarf (Joe the Night Elf)". It tells me he's playing on Ed, but it also includes the character name I added him to my friends list so I know who he is if he's playing on some random alt. Guild list works similar to character list, but it doesn't show the "original name" as prominently.

If I send a whisper to Joe while he's playing on Ed, then the whisper will automatically be redirected to Ed (and I'll see in the chat box that it was).

The ignore list will block any character on the same account, so if I add Ed to my ignore list, I won't see any chat messages from Joe either. Very convenient, and no account names involved.

After a few tries, the interpretation I liked best was:

$4 coffee is common in California implies AT&T dropping calls is also common implies that Apple testers didn't notice the antenna issue because their calls were getting they were used to getting many dropped calls anyway.

As a Californian who doesn't drink much coffee and gets cell service through Verizon, I can't make any claims on the accuracy of their poorly written comparison..

Both of my last two phones have been able to be silenced by pressing the volume button (in either direction). They were also flip phones, so they were answered by opening the case (and in the older phones case, also pressing a button since it didn't have an external LCD).

This was very convenient when I got a call that I wanted to silence ASAP (in class, in a meeting, etc), since I could just squeeze the pocket the phone was in, and 90% of the time I'd hit one of the volume buttons, and there was no chance of accidentally answering.

Just a few minor corrections for you:

No ability to "mark up" the books.

It isn't that the Kindle has no ability to mark-up pages, but the ability is somewhat limited compared to "scribbling in the margins". Basically, you can put in what amounts to an in-line footnote at any point in the text and you can highlight (actually, underline) passages. Also, as far as I know these features aren't restricted in DRM-enabled books from the Amazon store.

Slow to page back and forth.

Most likely because of the slow refresh times of e-ink screens, so mostly a hardware issue.

Admittedly I haven't used it much, because I haven't had to interact with any IE-only web apps for a while. However, I'm pretty sure I remember that IETab can be configured to automatically switch certain pages/domains to the IE rendering engine without user interaction. In fact, I think the default configuration does this for windowsupdate.microsoft.com.

Clearly the AC didn't spend enough time testing (or using?) his post...

Halt!

(for those who sadly never played it: link)

He could have done 33% better without that '.' though...

If you don't want the loop to be run the first time if the condition is initially false .. why would you use a do..while loop instead of a regular while loop?

Seems obvious to me what the YouTube linked ad is about. It's showing how google's browser is lightweight and free of clutter as well as giving a basic feel for the actual interface. And it does that with a bit of an Arkanoid parody/inspiration (oblig wikipedia).

I was a little supprised to see a Google ad in during the game since they've never been much for TV advertising, although I have seen quite a few of those search stories ads on Hulu recently, as well as some other Chrome ads. It was definitely one of the better ads among the Super Bowl fare this year.

Also, you forgot "Doritos" in your last paragraph. (Does that mean it worked, even if I don't want any?)