who's there?

Walnut.

Walnut Who?

Walnut too strong, don't lean on t.

(hahahahaha. I crack myself up. get it? walnut? *crack* myself up? come on! )

If you want to make tons of money, just ship another AAA game.

Windows 8 people will buy it and they will pay for it whether it is on Steam, Xbox live, Windows Store, what have you.

Put your resources and talent where it belongs.

Half-life was the bees knees way back when. I remember when the first head crab jumped out at me. almost shat meself, me did.

HL2 was rip-roarin fun.

HL episodes were like dancing naked in a filed of posies.

Focus all of your resources on HL3. Make it epic. Why are you still reading this, Valve? Off with you, then...

I did not read the article. Just want to state that Cisco typically does not bid directly on projects like this.

A 'partner' (Service Provider like AT&T or Century Link. An integrator like Northrop Grumman or WWT)

Would bid on this. They get (Managed Solutions Partner) Discounts that they would bake into the RFP response.

Some of these discounts are as high as 65-70%, depending on the product, competitive landscape and so-on.

I would take this price comparison with a big grain of salt. There is more here than meets the eye.

COD is real. The Drone strikes were caused by you, Player 1.

are misunderestimated. Just because I can memorize pi to 1000 digits, lift 75 lbs with my weiner and compose French poetry in the bathtub don't mean I should be treated like a freak.

I'm just a people, too.

I just built an autonomous spaceship and 3 asteroid mining robots. Wish they would give us a heads up every once in a while.

if I had one, of course.

the old fashioned way.

Ba-dum-cha!

because the ISS does not accept PayPal

Wall street hates Obama.

Not a partisan jab, just an observation. (I am actually one of the 'undecideds' they keep talking about)

Remember what happened to the stock market 2 weeks before the last election (October 24th, 2008) The election was Nov. 4th.

this year it is Nov 6th. You'll see.

Having 3 big arse monitors connected to a giant, lint-filled box humming noisily under my desk will always be a part of my life.

I have ipads, androids, smartphones, netbooks and ultrabook and a bunch of game systems. don't matter.

to make way for the hyperspace bypass

The Oatmeal is now my hero. This is friggin sweet!

Remember, this is not his first act of Geek heroism. http://theoatmeal.com/sopa

Oatmeal,

I suspect you are a slashdotter and are reading this now. you have a special gift my friend, and I do not mean mitichlorians. You have the power to affect real nerd-wizard change in the world of muggles.

Peace out, bro

At the risk of getting flamed to a cinder I am offering this up:

I am getting the Kindle Paperwhite and I am not going to jailbreak it.

I like paying for my books. I have purchased some friggin excellent books directly from my kindle touch that I would have never otherwise. "Pines" and "Run" by Blake Crouch are 2 good examples many slashdotters will appreciate. ('Wool" is another). It is an easy way to support an author.

I use my kindle to read PDFs all the time. you CAN read epubs if you convert them (http://calibre-ebook.com/about)

We are not rational creatures, we are myth seeking.

Joseph Campbell once said "Mythology can be defined as other peoples religion. Conversely, Religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology."

Myths are developed and created from beliefs. Beliefs are yanked directly from experience. As our tools for measuring experience improve, so do our beliefs.

So why don't people adopt new beleifs about the world when there is so much evidence to support them?

Myths (i.e religion) are very durable beliefs known as 'convictions'. They are extremely difficult to change because they are so entwined with a persons identity. They are like the legs of a table. You mess with a persons convictions and their whole world falls apart.

The odd thing is, to continue with the table analogy, you can put all sorts of wonky, contradictory beliefs on top of that tabl and the person will always default to defend the conviction, violently if necessary.