Make sense of the configuration scripts. In slackware, they're just that, simple bash-scripts that run as you boot the system. In ubuntu, you can count yourself lucky if it's only a script generated by another script based on four different configuration files scattered through the file system.

Seems like somebody didn't think this through. If you set your MSRP to be $1,000,000,000, you'll get $200,000,000 for every sale, no matter what they charge for it (as 20% of a billion is going to be greater than 70% of pretty much any retail price.)

Sweet.

Don't judge a website by the stylesheet.

New Vegas is a bad sequel to Fallout 3, but Fallout 3 is a bad Sequel to Fallout 2.

If you look at New Vegas as a sequel to Fallout 2 and pretend Fallout 3 never happened, all is well.

Scientific journals are different from newspapers. They aggregate months of work by the greatest minds in the world.

With few exceptions, the same can not be said for newspapers. At best they aggregate hours of work by the loudest mouths in the world.

In Batman: Arkham Asylum I think it's Harley Quinn that remarks upon the lockpick mechanism which effectively allows one to control the vibration of the controller at one's leisure with "a girl could have hours of fun with that thing."

Just sayin'

I think he's a good choice, being a bit of an eccentric jerk type of guy. I quote wikipedia:

'Babbage's distaste for commoners ("the Mob") included writing "Observations of Street Nuisances" in 1864, as well as tallying up 165 "nuisances" over a period of 80 days. He especially hated street music, and in particular the music of organ grinders, against whom he railed in various venues. The following quotation is typical:

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

Good Sequels: Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2, Thief 3
Bad Sequels: Deus Ex 2, Fallout 3 (though Fallout: New Vegas is on the good-ish side)

The trend is that good sequels are true to the original format while only fixing things that are genuinely broken, while bad sequels piss in the face of the fans of the original games by deviating from the original format so much that the connection to the original game(s) become questionable.

That is the best option, obviously. But a gamepad with "triggers" like the xbox360 controller is okay, as it at least allows you to control acceleration, braking and turning in a smooth fashion. Keyboard+Mouse is the worst sort of atrocious. Everything is either full on, or full off. Either you slam the pedal, or you take your foot off it completely.

Nothing was lost? The porn! MY PRECIOUS DEVIANT PORN! Oh how I miss thee, German* midget wrapped in a latex catsuit fighting off naked clowns with an oversized Q-tip!

* How do I know she was German? Well, the only people who create weird shit like that are the Japanese and the Germans. And she wasn't Japanese.

Good programmers write code that doesn't need a multi-paragraph description and line-by-line comments. The structure of the project should obviously be documented (how does the modules connect, and so forth), and any caveats or unexpected behavior in for example boundary cases, but beyond that, good code documents itself.

This is a pathological degree of documentation (but none the less all too common):

/** Adds two numbers
      @return The sum (a + b)
      @arg a The first number
      @arg b The second number */

int sum(int a, int b) {
    return a + b;
}

The function does what it says on the box, so you don't need to comment it.

Modern IDEs tend to auto-complete so much that it really isn't a problem, even in verbose languages like Java. Then there are of course those languages that are so abstract and dense that it will never matter, like say Haskell.

Stupid Flanders!

I think that's tenths of micrometers, which is on the edge of what our eyes can resolve.

I think the term used in the industry is "darker and edgier". But yeah. Emo.