I'm the same way.

The other day while coding I realized that I was typing waaaay faster than I normally do while typing.

Then I realized that it was because I was writing an IM.

After that I went back to coding and my typing slowed down tremendously.

Thinking about this, it's probably because over time I've learned that it saves a lot of time to slow down and consider the structure that you are creating when coding, and making sure that you have very few typos/switched variable names. Sometimes the tools can help you catch those, but in other cases (such as using the wrong variable), you can far more time looking for a mistake than the time lost by slowing down a bit and not making the mistake in the first place.

From what I've seen of this, the flip side of this is that such people are also much more likely to be checking work email, etc. after hours. So if something suddenly comes up during non-normal hours, it's more likely to be dealt with quickly as part of a give-and-take approach. It's a blending of personal and working life. Yes, you do have to accept that some personal matters will be dealt with during work hours, but work matters will then sometimes be dealt with during personal hours.

Indeed. Slashdot has a very, very short memory. Just a few days ago there was an article featured on the consoles being too slow.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/25/2126215/PC-Gaming-a-Generation-Ahead-of-Consoles-Says-Crytek-Boss

Although honestly, I think the larger danger to the consoles is not the PC market, but the mobile market with the iPad and such. I've been surprised at how much the iPad can actually pull off for not being just a gaming device (N.O.V.A., etc).

This article reminds me a bit of some of the early predictions where the people couldn't see the need for more than a few computers in the world. It reeks of something that will come around and bite them in the ass for not progressing quick enough.

No, you weren't. Beyond just reading USCG as the United States Coast Guard, given that context, I initially interpreted "Copyright Defense Lawyer" as a lawyer for the Department of Defense who specialized in copyright law.

'All the mathematics one needs in real life can be learned in early years without much fuss,'

Wow, what a load of BS.

My wife taught "College Algebra" for a few semesters.

She was astounded when early on, she was working with a student during office hours on a fairly simple problem. A shirt costs 29.50. You have a coupon for 15% off. How much will the shirt cost you? The resulting answer was more than the original price.

Additionally, she was working with a student, and reduced the problem down to seven times four. The student's response? "Hold on, let me get my calculator"

While the current teaching methods being experimented with may not be working, I think that the professor is wrong in his suggestion that we basically throw up our hands and give up. It just means that we have to try other things to reach such students.

Hey, look on the bright side, if you manage to get access to the admin side of the copier (or perhaps if you've found that they never set it up, but your copier has this functionality), you can have loads of fun. Imagine if the copier wouldn't copy anything with the letter a in it, and if someone tried to, it would email your manager (or their boss). All the fun of shutting down the copier and spamming someone at the same time!

Let's see.

1.1 million deaths at Auschwitz.
At the end, there were 7,000 people freed from the actual camp itself. 20,000 more survived the death march from the camp.

Ignoring those who might have escaped or been transferred, that still leaves a pet given to PETA with a pretty similar survival rate to a Jew in Auschwitz.

Care to still deny that there might be a bit of a problem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aushwitz#Evacuation.2C_death_marches.2C_and_liberation

Unfortunately, while I wish I could say the rest of his claims are entirely without merit (due to the horrible implications), I cannot. His claims are exaggerated to some degree (PETA does not snatch the pets), the kernel of the accusation about euthanizing pets seems to be true.

In 2009, PETA euthanized 2,301 cats and dogs brought into it's headquarters and only adopted out 8 cats and dogs.

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/petas-euthanasia-rates-have-critics-fuming/19384880

Hmm, I'm guessing large subsidies for improving broadband, but with strings attached, such that the businesses receiving the money have to abide by net neutrality and respect the FCC.

Without net-neutrality, Comcast's purchase of NBC (and Hulu) could start raising some major questions about whether it is forming a monopoly, especially when the government is already looking at the broadband situation in the US (and possibly unhappy about it).

Additionally, the FCC has made it pretty clear that they want some authority over the net, so far assuming implicitly that they have such authority. With this ruling, we may yet see them given such authority explicitly.

I almost wonder if this may be a pyrrhic victory for Comcast. Imagine them having the NBC/Hulu sale blocked, and then later the FCC gets it's authority specifically created, enforcing Net Neutrality (perhaps with some fangs), and having a bit of a grudge against Comcast.

The trackpads on the Macbooks are multi-touch.

There are pictures, and even nice videos that come out every few months from folks playing around with high altitude balloons. It seems kind of unlikely to me that NASA would have just suddenly discovered this and been amazed. Until there is confirmation from NASA, I'm just going to assume this is BS, either made up by the guy, or some prankster called him.

Chances are pretty good that this outage was simply due to incompetence.

That said, it raises a rather interesting issue. It really demonstrates that there is a single point at which the game can be brought down.

I have to wonder if in the future, if other games include even more draconian DRM schemes that also require constant Internet access, if pirates might just intentionally attacking the servers involved (probably DDoS). I could see them doing this just to discourage such DRM (that may be harder to crack in the future, such as if more of the game data is held on the servers).

DRM could really be turned against the publishers. Ironically, by trying too hard to stop the pirates at launch, they may just be making it easy for pirates to destroy the launch.
 

It's a photo editor, not an image editor. If you want an image editor, you might try Splashup http://www.splashup.com/

Just remember folks, if you do have a friend in WoW who is showing signs of heavy WoW addiction, there is a fairly simple way for you to help them.

Make them your 25 man raid leader.

This always seems to (fairly quickly) reduce the amount of time that they player in question is online playing WoW.