Now I do want to be a Jackalope.

At Loblaw's our President's Choice gift cards need to be peeled out of the frame they are inset into, with backing. There's no way to get anything off of the card until then. Plus the frame holds the little hole so you can hang them on the shelf.

And phone cards all just have identical barcodes. The POS system then generates their activation code upon confirmation of payment, and prints it on their receipt.

This is in little ol' Canada, by the way.

You really need to keep your eye on KDevelop 4.0 then. Check out one of the main developer's blogs for tons of screenshots. It's a complete rewrite from 3.5 that takes advantage of just about everything KDE and Qt have to offer. I'm sure it is going to blow every other Qt/KDE IDE out of the water.

It's just a shitty headline. The courts didn't decide the truth, medicine did and just passed it along.

If a company designed a product to operate in the whitespace radio band, wouldn't they want to market it to people in Baltimore and Philadelphia too? So why would they make a device that would interfere with DTV transmissions in those cities? Or, do you mean that they are so far away that your ability to pick them up isn't protected?

I've always been planning to implement a file backup system, but that's pretty boring stuff. The reason I brought up Dropbox is because ultimately I think it'd be the penultimate reason to pay for webhosting, were the idea implemented in FOSS. In the meanwhile, how do you backup your personal files to your webhost?

How can I make my life easier by using my hundreds of gigs of space, and thousands transfer each month? I googled for a while and couldn't find much geared towards answering my question. There must be some interesting web-based software out there that people run on their own servers to help productivity. What do other slashdotters keep installed on their servers?

Really? When you hear "chrome", you don't think of hot rods from the 50s or 60s? It's the first thing that pops in my head, and is pretty fuckin' cool.

Lemme re-write his comment: "One could (if it were me, would) say the same for OS X." That is to say, "If only OS X would fix their flat tires and get back in the race." :)

Except for the fact that this sort of competition between browsers brings us closer and closer to a day when web developers will be able just use CSS exactly the way that it should work, without having to spend hours and hours of time making sacrifices and hacks to fix these problems.

When 95% of it almost works, then why is the last 5% even in the spec if no browsers are going to support it?

Well the movie, Dead Space: Downfall doesn't even have the enjoyment of any gameplay. The animation is interesting (1990's hand drawn cartoon style, sort of like Aeon Flux, with some CG sets and ships), but the plot is predictable, since it's a prequal, and you already know that everyone on the ship dies because that's how the game starts.

It does have Bruce Boxleitner, which is why we watched it in the first place, but should have turned it off after he died 20 minutes in.

Lots of blood, guts, and gore, and some weird religion element that they don't bother explaining. Maybe if I made it through the game I'd learn what that was all about.

But you'll be praying the main character dies the whole time, because she's annoying as hell. Yeah, it's one of those movies.

Interesting article! The porno business must be booming if they can afford Will Smith to star in Handcock! And the original director too!

Aha! So that's what's happened to film quality in the past decade or two...

"Fag"? Seriously? What century is this? I never have mod points when I need them...

I appreciate the advice you're giving me, but I don't think your anecdote fits in this case. In fact, I agree that if you have to go through three boxes of a game to get a complete set of game discs then there is a big problem, and the store would do something.

But seeing as we're reading about how trivial the workaround for this "problem" is right in TFA, and yet the OP really thinks that on principle he would and should be allowed to wreck a stores entire inventory on a new product, then you can see where the situations differ.

I treat the vast majority of customers with smiles, friendly banter, politeness, and get a few anonymous props in the suggestion box every couple of months. But some customers, like the OP, think they deserve an entitlement above what would even remotely make sense because "They are the customer" and I'm just some punk-ass kid who has no authority to tell them they'd just be wasting everyones time with their silly notions. After we called EA to see why his serial code was short, we'd find out that they will give him a new serial number over the phone and the situation would be over. The OP just assumes that the hard way is the best way because he has to make a statement.

Like I said, he needs to chill the fuck out, accept a minor publishing error made on the behalf of human beings chugging along in the corporate machine, and pick his battles.