Comment Re:I'm a non-degree slacker (Score 5, Informative) 655
I've got a degree. It didn't teach me a damned thing about IT, but I've got the degree. The degree helps get your resume through the HR drones, though, but not much else.
Comment Re:The next season, whichever that is... (Score 2) 346
I wonder how many respondents are in the northern hemisphere (not to mention in a place with seasons). Specifically because, if many of them are, I'd expect Fall to be the choice right now. In Winter, I'd expect spring to get the highest number of votes.
This is really insightful, since we tend to anticipate the upcoming season. The only exception I think would be in Fall, when I don't think any more people would pick Winter. People don't tend to look forward to Winter unless they do year-round.
Comment Short Stories (Score 1) 322
Sort of a subset of books, but short stories have always fascinated me in a way that even great sci-fi novels haven't. Entering a new world and trying to make sense of it in a few dozen (or fewer!) pages gives the powerful endings an element of surprise that often leaves me thinking about it for days. Nightfall, The Last Question, etc. Cast my vote for short stories.
Comment Looks like about 5% (Score 1) 267
...of the respondents lied.
Comment Re:Better question (Score 1) 300
I would mod this up if I could. Unfortunately I only have one open right now.
Comment Go to uni? (Score 1) 66
RTFA... couldn't find any mention of any school with the initials uni. Did I miss something, or did it mean UND?
Comment Re:It was never balanced (Score 2) 202
This is made even more profitable by the addition of (bogus, at least to me) words like QI and ZA (a way of spelling "chi" as in Chinese medicine and a slang word for "pizza" that they somehow decided was mainstream enough). [...] (QAT is also pretty damn bogus.) [...] It's a game of tactics (generally well understood) and an official dictionary with words that often bear only a dim connection to reality.
I loved Scrabble until I started playing against people who used words that I had not only seen before, but that offended my inner dictionary. Someday they'll put out a dictionary with only the top N used words or something so I can enjoy it again.
NASA Considers Putting an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon 171
Zothecula writes "To paraphrase an old saying, if the astronaut can't go to the asteroid, then the asteroid must come to the astronaut. In a study released by the Keck Institute for Space Studies, researchers outlined a mission (PDF) to tow an asteroid into lunar orbit by 2025 using ion propulsion and a really big bag. The idea is to bring an asteroid close to Earth for easy study and visits by astronauts without the hazards and expense of a deep space mission. Now, Keck researchers say NASA officials are evaluating the plan to see whether it's something they want to do. The total cost is estimated to be roughly $2.6 billion."
Comment Re:With the exception of Greece... (Score 3, Insightful) 278
Radical Islamic Fundamentalism is to Islam as the KKK is to Christianity (as paraphrased from The West Wing).
Let's call out those who hate and oppress, and leave the rest of the members of a religion that preaches peace alone.
Comment Re:Does anybody still "upgrade"? (Score 1) 222
I skipped the Vista "upgrade" but did upgrade from XP to 7 because I wanted to be able to have more than 4GB of RAM. That's mostly the only reason I bothered.
Comment Re:Haha (Score 1) 284
Windows: 95. Scene: LAN party. Game: Descent.
Off-topic, but I wish I had had more friends with computers back when Descent wasn't ancient. Great game that I would've loved to play multiplayer on more often.
Comment 12 clicks (Score 1) 50
Longest one I've found so far is hilum to Angkor Borei and Phnom da.
Definitely a great time-waster.
Submission + - Kevin Bacon Meets Wikipedia With New Pathfinding Program (oracleofwikipedia.com)
BLT2112 writes: Inspired by The Oracle of Bacon (oracleofbacon.org), The Oracle of Wikipedia (oracleofwikipedia.com) finds the shortest path between two Wikipedia articles, as in Wikipedia Golf. As explained in the site, "One selects one article as the tee and another article as the hole and then completes the course between them clicking as few links as possible. No typing is allowed. . . . The Oracle also allows you to search for the most challenging potential Wikipedia Golf courses. Can you find a longer course and merit a place in the 'records' section?"
Comment Re:Depends, as always... (Score 1) 334
I voted 7.1 though.
I love my 7.1 headphones, but I voted stereo because usually the 7.1 just sounds echo-y and distant. But when it's done right, it really is amazing.
Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' 649
mr100percent writes with this excerpt from Electronista: "Battleheart's creator Mika Mobile in an update explained that it was dropping Android support. Google's platform was losing money for the company, since it spent about 20 percent of its time supporting the platform but only ever made five percent or less of the company's revenue. Much of the effort was spent on issues specific to Android, where the diversity was only creating problems rather than helping.
'I would have preferred spending that time on more content for you, but instead I was thanklessly modifying shaders and texture formats to work on different GPUs, or pushing out patches to support new devices without crashing, or walking someone through how to fix an installation that wouldn't go through,' one half of the husband and wife duo said. 'We spent thousands on various test hardware. These are the unsung necessities of offering our apps on Android.'"
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