I do have set up Netvibes as well, but I still go back to iGoogle everyday. It just seems the layout is much better there, or at least the default layout is. Plus on iGoogle I can just have a widget for my Gmail that displays my last x mails, not the top x unread emails (which for me at least is useless)... /sigh That said, Netvibes does indeed look to be a very worthy "successor" to iGoole, and yeah, I can recommend it as well.

I agree this is a common problem, but not for the reasons you list. The best software that I have read comes from experienced programmers, who through education and enumerable amounts of experience can construct robust designs that are elegant, powerful and scalable. Every engineer can bring ideas to the table and it is important for a work environment be conducive to criticism, design discussions and most importantly change. My suggestion is to change his code and comment it as much as possible. Sometimes people don't get the point and if you have to live with their mess, do yourself a favor and fix it. I do this everyday, fix other people's code, mumble to myself and then move on.

This is the only way manufacturing should be done. Not only will many jobs be created, to program, design and assemble the robots, but all jobs will be well paid and exploitation free. We want this type of manufacturing to be done in the United States, it creates high quality jobs and supports the human rights standards that we as a nation believe in. I am no Apple fanboy, but this is also a huge win for their customers, because humans can not match the precision of robotic manufacturing. Good news for nerds.

That might be because of HD Audio instead of AC97. I recently built a new desktop PC with a new case, and installed the latest Realtek drivers from their website (instead of the version from the Asus mainboard cd). I then experienced the behaviour you described - whenever I plug in my headphones, the sound from the speakers stops. Infuriating. I want to turn the speakers on and off when I do not want to use them, but now I manually have to unplug the headphones as well? Yeah, I twiddled with older Realtek drivers etc., until I found out that it is a "feature" of the HD Audio extension boards. Great, I thought, just install the AC97 board for the case... except I cannot find it anymore, a month after building the machine. I know I saw it somewhere in the boxes... ;) But seriously, check that out.

I find it interesting that most of these projects are in fact losing money. Given the level of effort and the quality of the software that is being written, I wish that there was real pay days associated with the projects, but from what I can tell no one is making much money.

That is actually what I have begun to think as well. That and the fact that I actually have to select circles to share with for every post. On Facebook, I simply set a relatively sane default (all friends minus the people from work who are just coworkers, not friends). Anybody who should see even less than that I put into the aforementioned coworkes group for a week so they think I accepted them, then I silently delete them again. At the very worst, some not so good friend suddenly sees I play WoW, am an atheist, like the Suicide Girls or drink beer. Well. I can live with that, as at least my boss knows 2 of the 4 and probably suspects the other 2 and wouldn't give a damn. My parents, they know all 4. But on Google+ I have to think who exactly shall read whatever I post every fricking time. Sounds good on paper, in practice, not so much. I for one am waiting how this pans out...

The fun thing about that game is, you never even know how many levels there are! Also, you don't have to beat a level to proceed to the next one...

you cannot be an engineer. Honestly, the one discipline that cannot lower its core requirements is Engineering (CS included). I agree on one hand, too many CS majors do not have a clue how to actually develop real software when they graduate college. This especially happens when CS is a part of the math (arts and science) dept, but this total focus on theory is the problem, not because the students must understand high level math. IMO, this is why CS should be a part of the Engineering college, to ensure the theory can be applied. Every engineer I know has passed Calculus 3, imho this should be a minimum req. to build systems that affect the lives of other people...just a thought.

Iterators are one of the most critical parts of c++ that help make generic programming powerful and efficient. You can reduce the complexity, increase conciseness and simplify logic for all containers in a generic case using templates and iterators. When you don't understand a language, it is very easy to find a strawman.

hahahahahahah....your use of logic is spot on...this is both gimmicky and worthless. not to mention the fact that it isn't instant. just shows you that google is becoming a fading giant, they are running out of real ideas

Incredibly true and precisely said...mod parent up!!

Agreed, if you want crappy foxconn hardware, just build the computer yourself. Dual boot osx with a sensible linux distro and you will quickly wean yourself from the tyranny of cupertino. the lifetime of a hackintosh is much longer than your way overpriced shiny case apple.

We have been drilling in bodies of water for over 100 years, such gross negligence for the environmental safety and the well being of the oil rig workers is criminal. Someone at BP and Transocean made a calculated risk believing that the cost of such safety system was less important than the cost of their employees and the environment. This is a disgraceful accident as it could have been easily prevented with technology we had thirty years ago, as a once supporter of offshore drilling I have realized companies and governments will always put the bottom line first and the cost of life second.

Huh? At least in Europe we have three phase running to our houses, and you even attach, say, electric kitchen stoves directly to this...