I've written a lot of code on short notice for deadlines; but even then I can't say I've written "shitty code" in a long time. But I limit my interpretation in such cases to code that is bug prone and/or hard to read. Anything that is stable and easy to read can be optimized/expanded at a later time if necessary.

Standby works great on my netbook running windows 7. Takes only a second or two at most to come back alive and ready to go. Works just fine on my vista laptops too from various manufacturers. XP had some issues but long ago and primarily due to needing uninterupted disk space large enough to handle all the ram on the box, so if you added more ram you ran into issues.

"No, that's what comments are for, you can't expect people to be able to read your code."

Yes, you can.
Comments should be the exception, not the rule. I've written millions of lines of code over the years and only thousands of lines of comments. I'll admit that I may not write the most efficient code; but it is always extremely easy to read and flexibly designed. And people of various levels of experience can read it and either completely understand it or get the overall gist just by reading the functions names, variables, etc. I reserve comments for the truly tricky stuff.

It takes little more initial effort, ie: I never abbreviate words, I always type out the full path to a class ("System.Data.DataSet" instead of just "DataSet"), I use standard naming conventions and never take shortcuts in formatting my code. Like I said, it takes a little more initial work but it ends up reading like a novel.

Sure, comment regular expressions, but those are often difficult to read/understand just by default with no real easy way to make them readable.

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I clicked on one of those "shortened" urls. I just skip over them. I prefer to know where I'm going.

Exactly. And Both Bush I and Reagan had democrat controlled house of reps their entire terms. Still, they shouldn't have given in and signed the budgets including such out of control spending.

Upon reviewing the thread I must disagree; there are a fair amount of positive posts and the people hating on what can only be considered a "good" thing have been promptly rebuttted.

I was only thinking of desktop cards, not laptop ones. Yeah, for those, the manufacturer's ones are often the only ones that will work, not the designer's.

Have you used one? They're pretty easy on the eyes, and screen refresh is easily handled by clicking "next page" when your eyes hit the last line or two of the page.

she was wearing her seat belt which became jammed.

Things like this are why everyone should carry (at least) a pocketknife, either on them or in their car within easy reach.

Personally I almost always have one of my Gerber's in one of my pockets, I've been carrying pocket knives since I was in elementary school. I, and a bunch of others, even carried our knives to school. But with the nanny state that's inadvisable today, whenever I go into a government building I have to take my knife out before entering.

Mandatory seatbelt laws save far more lives than they cost, and the problem you quote is so easily avoided that it's a straw man arguement against them.

Ah, so you're going to say the death of the elementary school girl I knew who burned to death could have been avoided? Yea, it could have, by not getting in a car. But because you apparently don't believe in personal responsibility you want government to dictate what can not and must do. I don't want to live in your world where governments can make victimless crimes.

Falcon

Pretty much any reason these days is used as an excuse to pirate. It's easy to find something you don't like in any game to make some sort of excuse. These people are just trying to justify breaking the law. Just don't pirate.

you can't compare quiet, scheming bigots to a whole nation full of war protestors who actually show up themselves, not speak through well funded media mouthpieces.

I've been using the hotbrick LB-2 for years to aggregate dsl and cable lines. Works like a charm.
http://www.hotbrick.com/produto.asp?tipo=3&catpro=2

I thought they had up to a 4connection version, but I don't see it anymore.

And to think that in the workplace, writing is actually the LEAST important skill.

Believe it or not, among skills needed in the work place, the most important is listening. Then comes speaking, then reading, then writing.

Completely BASS ACKWARDS to the way it's taught in school.

Dell is known to buy the cheapest memory available to them, so the worst vendor could be any vendor at their time of purchase! In my test environment people have told me, historically Elpida has had the worst margins on their parts.

RT @MITadmissions @masmullin sorry rejected #fail