As a former competitor at the world-level in first person shooters, perhaps my cortex has adapted differently, because when I stare at the dots in the center, I can always tell that the shape or hue or brightness are changing. I can tell when they change and how they change. I can see how in many ways this might be true for 99.99% of the population, but when you spend man-years staring at stationary dots in the center of a screen (crosshair) while "looking around" in-game waiting to notice single-pixel changes out of the ordinary, maybe you learn to notice it?

According to my history professor from a year ago, the proclamation freed exactly zero slaves in the union. My government professor agreed. It seems that they wouldn't relinquish control of their PROPERTY without recompense, hence the reason the south seceded in the first place.

Then again, I prefer to call it the war of northern aggression and feel that the states had the right to secede. Oh well....

I too live in Houston. I actually drive a TDI diesel Jetta. I never have any problems finding fuel for it. I live near Rice University (Kirby and 59 has one!), I drive to the west side of 8 all the time (I-10 and voss shell), I'm consistently near spring (anything on 45 north of 610)... I don't know why you seem to assume they aren't anywhere, I'd say more than 75% of the stations I've seen have them. It's rare for me not to find a station first attempt to fill up.

OH THE HUMANITY!!!

You should go reread the GP's post. He was typing "octets" into Netscape... I believe that refers directly to IP adresses... or do IP addresses not use octets in quadruple anymore?

F10 for me is "next line" for debugging c/c++ code... I couldn't even imagine setting up F10 to be "next screen" on my KVM!

I think the parent was implying that he left it ON all day for weeks, but just wasn't talking on it. If he was just leaving it off and using it as a paperweight, how would he be using it to tell time? There wouldn't even be a point to posting if he didn't use the phone in a turned-on state. Your attempt at being snide failed due to not thinking enough.

Very off topic, but you did reference your sig. I think you should go look up the English pronunciations of those words because:
- "owl" doesn't sound like "oll", even remotely
- "wise" doesn't sound like "ways", even remotely

to me, sounding that signature out sounds like: I owel wize ewws a spill chucker so I no mai spelling is core wrecked"; note that "wrecked" and "recked" don't sound the same

"always use a spell checker so I know my spelling is correct"

Flash IS opt-in by default. You have to install the Flash plugin for it to work at all in the first place!

Except, of course, for all of the debugging code built into the dev-branch executable that wouldn't normally be there (both inline and out-of-normal-scope). All that extra code actually equates to a slower experience...

Think of how much electricity would be wasted, on a very large scale, if every computer-based operation took 50% longer merely to make it seem like it was "responsive"... your ideas are scary, both from a programmer's point of view and from a utilitarian's point of view

No, then it holds, even more so, that we know that one is between 1 and 5! Just might mean so are the others too!

Actually, I read somewhere that we know, with 100% certainty, that ONE of the factors is BELOW the square root of 21, so, roughly between 1 and 5. That means the OTHER factor can be anywhere between 5 and 21! You only have to find half!

I find it difficult to think they will think once, let alone twice, after they each get a few bullets in the back of the head.

I don't think Que means what you think it does. "Cue" might be what you are looking for.