Thats right. I stopped giving credence to the rest of that post after they misspelled Perl.

Yeah, seriously I did.

I suggest you take this up with your company's HR department. They typically take a very dim view of the type of activity you are complaining about -- mostly because it would be very easy for you to to sue the company. If you can't get your HR rep to put the heat on your management to have some integrity, then direct your lawyer to the HR rep. The problem should resolve itself pretty quickly :-) I work in middle management and at least at my company I can tell you for sure that if I were to jerk around my employees like that, HR would be having a long discussion with me about how playing nice is a good thing and if I want to be an asshole I can take it somewhere else.

Thats actually pretty hilarious because in recent runs of Cosmos (on The Science Channel, IIRC), certain facts/figures in Sagan's dialogue have been overdubbed to convey more up-to-date data!

Yup, there is a reason they are calling it Windows 7 instead of what it really is -- Vista SP3. Nobody wants to pay for a service pack.

My old-ass Nokia's web-browser has this behavior. This feature does indeed predate the iPhone.

Eh. Though the iPhone seemed pretty damn cool when it came out, I said 'no' and stayed with my current phone and provider because, well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I didn't want to leave the provider I have been with for 8 years that has provided reliable (and relatively bullshit free) service throughout. I especially didn't want to switch to AT&T. It sucks, but I don't really feel bad about those who feel bent over. You took that risk in the first place and now have to pay the piper. I'd like to have an iPhone, but I will wait until Apple ends its exclusivity contract with AT&T and multiple providers support the iPhone. Until then, my phone will remain, just a phone. Until then, laissez faire!

Perhaps some day people will finally notice that the free market doesn't result in utopia either.

I'm not sure if I am reading this statement correctly. Are you saying that the status quo is a free market? For the telcos specifically, I'd have to say it is not a free market, considering some providers have an effectively monopoly in certain areas -- although this is much more evident in ISP and cable companies. Not to mention that the telcos got a huge government subsidy to increase infrastructure, which never happened -- if slashdot 'common knowledge' is to be believed. A truly free market might not lead to utopia after all, but I don't think this is a good example to use :-)

I am guessing using goatse as your wallpaper will cut down on the requests.

I am pretty sure the Express versions are now, but I don't think they were always "free". Unless you mean "free" as in compiling the IDE from source yourself, in which case it is not! :-)

Hmm I dunno if this is true. I tried to install Visual C# Express on wine/Kubuntu 9.04 and the installer fails with a missing module error or some dumb thing.

Has anyone been successful in installing Visual Studio under wine? I'd actually really like that!

It really depends on that person's specific circumstance. If a person plays excessively and flunks out of school, loses their job, and/or develops health problems -- it still doesn't answer the question of WHY do they do it? That question needs to be asked whether its a WoW addiction or alcoholism.

I'm not a very social person in the first place. Social anxiety, I guess. FWIW, I don't consider posting on slashdot to be the same thing -- I don't have to look you in the eye or talk to you live :-)

My main WoW character has something like 65 days of play time logged in the last 2 years. That works out to about 2 hours a day. I know people who watch more TV than that, but I digress. If I didn't play WoW, I'd be doing something else alone, like hacking perl or C# code, like I did before I discovered WoW. I'm not trying to justify my behavior, but WoW or perl or whatever is not the cause of issue, only a symptom.

But hey, I am gainfully employed and my behavior doesn't negatively impact anyone else, so everything's cool right?

at best buy a couple weeks ago... too bad the box was supposed to contain a Nvidia 260... s3, 3dfx, all kinds of old ass graphics boards in the box.. but no 260...

Cake rocks, and that's no lie. XD

Eh, I am pretty sure its just the same export to PDF functionality that OO.org has had for years. FWIW, I was trying to do just this with Office 2007 vanilla the other day, and was pleasantly surprised to see that though it doesn't export out of the box, a quick add-in download supplied the functionality and it worked like a charm. I believe they also had an ODF add-in as well. I am not sure how long this has been supported, but it looks to me like the service pack just rolls in some of these add-ins into the base installation. Nice to see this from MS, but as I said, its not exactly earth-shattering since OO.org has done this for quite a while :-)

Hmm yeah, Model T's are fun to ride in, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it comfortable. I think the same applies here, playing old games is fun, but they were ugly then and this filter makes them the same king of ugly. It really gives you the true experience I suppose. It is true that a lot of old games look arguably worse on a nice new LCD.

/shrug

I've played with the NTSC filter in an NES emulator before, and yes it really does look like the real deal, but its ugly to me so I have to turn it off :-)