Assuming you're close enough to the exchange for ADSL to not suck, switch to O2. They've been the best ADSL provider I've had here in the UK.

No caps, no "peak-time" and the speeds are close to as advertised (I pay for a 20Mb line and get 18Mb, with BT it was down at 12Mb, on the same telephone line as well, so figure that one out)

I you go to slashdot.org/~username/comments you should still get the "classic" view.

/Mikael

She campaigned against the very concept of rape victims having abortions, which even a good portion of pro-lifers would consider a grotesque position to take.

In fact, I'll just let Rotten Library (yes, really) do the explaining for me.

When people start paying 2grand per visit to pay off all the diff machines needed.
Hopefully though we'll see the costs come down in the future, the doctors can take the symptoms and do their best guess at what it may be, but its not always easy to spot. If they can find out enough to know where the problem may be, send u off for a blood test etc, see a specialist, whatever, then the treatment process can begin.

I don't write cover letters anymore but I do get interviews at big name companies usually followed by a strong offer; to name a few: Apple, Google, Mozilla, Netflix, Palm, Yahoo.

A few years ago, when I was still writing cover letters since I was 'junior' I did send a cover letter to Palm ... I said I was thrilled at the idea to work for Apple, oups. I got the job anyway and it convinced me that cover letters are a waste of time. Also it is quite frequent when interviewers do not bother to read the resumes because they're too busy with their work to prepare the interview.

Actually, we had nuclear weapons long before the USSR did anything in south America.

I'm glad you did, as I've never seen the book you linked to before... and now I'm going to be buying it.

As in my mind, it teaches C++ the "right" way, at least for me, who is trying to move from C#/Java into C++.

The above is false, I have installed and upgraded Firefox on a number of machines in the past 2 years where I have not had admin access and have not had any problems at all.

Yes, but in that same article, just above that, it has the same code written as:

That's a fairly common misconception, it's literal translation is actually "empty hand" rather than "open hand".

How much performance do you really need for solitaire though?

I'm all for cutting things down in size, but eventually you reach the point of diminishing returns.