Comment Re:Meaning (Score 1) 385
"Special Edition" wine....
Works surprisingly well.
Comment Re:This would be suicide for Microsoft (Score 1) 440
That sounds like you had poor coders, not a VB6 issue if the coders aren't professional. I've written/debug plenty of VB6 code. Compared to VS 2010 Visual Basic.Net yeah, it's not as easy in some respects. But there's a familiarity there to "pre-objected oriented" code that a lot of older programmers are used to.
Just because something is new and shiny doesn't mean it's automatically better than the older version. VB.Net 2002 sucked donkey balls compared to VB6, it took them to 2008 to get it good enough for me. I know a few coders now who are just starting to get into
Comment Re:I know what to do (Score 1) 202
He's dead , Jim...
Comment Re:Not limited to IT (Score 1) 283
Same boat....
literally. Was the go to guy. left, now they are hurting,
Mean while I'm where the grass in greener. (though slightly bored by it.) But I'll soak up all I can, for as long as I can stand it and move on.
Comment Re:Very well written (Score 1) 505
Thus the need for better schools.
Comment Re:Good riddance (Score 1) 585
I'm right there with you, except on the PC side.
Now with a full life, Wife, Child, career, house, etc etc, I'm happy at 8pm (after the kid is in bed) just to chill. I may get 2 hours to actually relax, if I'm lucky.
I loved working on PCs, I still like building my own. But the thrill of digging through a pile of old PCs an stripping out the memory for my use later...meh..thrills gone.
Comment Re:Still wondering... (Score 1) 490
Sounds like it to me.
Comment Re:The content is out there (Score 1) 607
You have to go to History International for hitler now....
Reality-based TV is cheap and easy, and must make them a ton of money.
It's sad, when you turn on the History channel and the only thing they show that I learn something from has Larry the Cable guy on it. He at least deals with some of everyday history.
What a world...what a world...
Comment Re:People actually drink tap water? (Score 1) 390
The problem is filtering alone isn't enough. A lot of times the chemicals in the water actually eat the filtering equipment.
They either need water trucked in or use cisterns.
Sean D.
Journal Journal: Things do change 2
Ok, last time I wrote here was a longgg time ago.
WoW's x-pac came out, and then another did. woof..
Within the last 6 weeks I got a new job.
Don't know if anyone still reads Journals on
Comment Re:Duh? (Score 3, Interesting) 473
But then that's amortized out over millions of subscribers. The envelopes take manual intervention. someone to open and dump the disk. hourly employee +benefits. Servers, on 24 hours a day, no bennies....in the long run the servers are the better investment.
Comment Re:Go electronic! (Score 1) 441
Depends on the barcode.
2D. Datamatrix.
You driver's License, barcode contains info, not just you license #.
1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? 685
Many of you have submitted a story about Irish filmmaker George Clarke, who claims to have found a person using a cellphone in the "unused footage" section of the DVD The Circus, a Charlie Chaplin movie filmed in 1928. To me the bigger mystery is how someone who appears to be the offspring of Ram-Man and The Penguin got into a movie in the first place, especially if they were talking to a little metal box on set. Watch the video and decide for yourself.
Infinite Mario With Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment 103
bgweber writes "There's been a lot of discussion about whether games should adapt to the skills of players. However, most current techniques limit adaptation to parameter adjustment. But if the parameter adaptation is applied to procedural content generation, then new levels can be generated on-line in response to a player's skill. In this adaptation of Infinite Mario (with source [.JAR]), new levels are generated based on the performance of the player. What other gameplay mechanics are open for adaptation when games adapt to the skills of specific players?"
Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies 456
Gary Phebus wants to donate his heart, lungs, and liver. The problem is he wants to donate them before he dies. Gary was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2008. Phebus says he'd like to be able to donate his organs before they deteriorate, and doesn't consider his request suicide because he's "dead anyway."
