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Comment Re:Bug or inaccurate tapping? (Score 1) 325

For sure not fat fingers! The first time it happened to me on my EVO I thought I had messed up. Since then I *TRIPLE CHECK* the recipient of every SMS I send. Just today it happened again, sent to one person, they didn't respond after a while so I looked at the thread and my message wasn't there. It was at the end of a thread with a different recipient.

I also notice that when the screen is first coming on, if I select a contact from the call log or a thread from the SMS log that sometimes I get a seemingly random one instead (not one just above or below the one I touched, but one not even on the screen).

Scary.

Comment oh goodie, business majors now in charge of code (Score 3, Insightful) 525

This will end poorly (again). It's basically a bunch of business majors managing a poorly understood programming effort, but instead of running things in a development environment they're running it on massive computers and the variables are REAL MONEY. Hiring mathematicians to write their algorithms won't likely help, they will eventually do something stupid, divide by 0, have unbounded growth, or otherwise watch their program crash along with the market.

I'm cashing out everything, buying canned food and ammo and moving to a farm.

Submission + - The nuking of Duke Nukem (wired.com) 2

Rick Bentley writes: How Duke got Nuked.

Duke Nukem Forever, the game that has been in development for 12 long years was finally cancelled in May. With too much runway, both in time and cash, development demonstrated its gas-like properties by expanding to fill all available space. Co-owner and project head George Broussard lead the team from when he was 34 years old until May 6th, 2009, when he was 46, w/o ever shipping a working game. He may have said it himself when he stated “It’s our time and our money we are spending on the game. So either we’re absolutely stupid and clueless, or we believe in what we are working on.”, or maybe both, as it turns out.

Although the shutdown was previously reported on Slashdot, this new Wired article goes in depth behind the scenes to paint a picture of a mushroom cloud sized implosion. Developers spending a decade in a career holding pattern for below market salary with "profit sharing" incentives, no real project deadlines, a motion capture room apparently used to capture the motion of strippers (the new game was to take place in a strip club, owned by Duke, that gets attacked by aliens), and countless crestfallen fans.

*Sniff*, I would have played that game.

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