Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/169/

Most of the venom surrounding UAC is directed at the pants-on-head-retarded implementation, not the idea. UAC is MS's cack-handed attempt to re-invent sudo. Unlike sudo, UAC doesn't prompt you for an admin password by default—bad. Unlike sudo, UAC doesn't offer the option to remember your credentials for a preset period so you don't have to keep swatting it down mid-task—bad. Unlike sudo, UAC doesn't log commands issued through it by default, or even offer an option to do so—terribad. This is one place where even Apple culti^H^H^H^H^Henthusiasts wouldn't complain if MS just copied them straight up, as it would actually do a bit to improve the state of things. Faced with this seemingly simple choice though, MS contracted an acute case of NIH-itis and regurgitated this mess upon us.

tl;dr - we bitch about UAC because we do know better.

I've been reading through Surface Detail recently, and it seems tailor-made for a screen adaptation: murder, corruption, intrigue, and a fight for the souls of the departed. They'd have to tone down the hell scenes a bit from what the book depicts, but overall I think it would work rather well.

Not just to you. MP3 and AAC are both lossy compression algorithms. Which psymodel fits you better is a matter of taste, but there's no doubt that both throw away parts of the song that they think you can't hear. Running a song through both in sequence, then, will lead to a demonstrably lower quality file.

Which, incidentally, is the whole point of the submitter's call to distribute music in FLAC. FLAC is lossless, so you can transcode from it to whatever format you please without suffering the double-degradation problem of transcoding from one lossy format to another.

I'm not fond of how each bit below the summary has its own line with surrounding whitespace. Concatenate that into one or two lines so that I don't have to scroll down as much to start reading the comments.

Also, the navbar on the left bleeds over when I set the browser window to 1024x768. Would prefer to see the site scale gracefully down to 840x1050, so that I can have two windows open side-by side on a standard 22" monitor.

I'm not terribly fond of the gray border around the edges either; it's just wasted space.

Would prefer a white-on-black display option for low-light viewing; having to monkey with style-sheets to get something consistent is a pain.

As others have mentioned, comment preview is very slow, though it speeds up somewhat for subsequent edits to the comment before submitting.

Sadly, there are many games that fail to recognize any mouse buttons beyond the basic 3 (left, right, middle). Additionally, there are mouses out there with >5 buttons, and almost no game I've seen recognizes mouse6-mouse11 for keybinding. For these reasons, and many more (macros, custom sensitivity stages, bypassing Windows's awful acceleration curve, &c.), installing mouse drivers often makes sense.

They don't mention OpenGL because they've already got people who are good at that; the PS3 port of the Source engine proves this. What they're after here is somebody who can dive into the hairy backend code, and do the massive amount of work needed to decouple the game code from the Win32 platform.