Comment Kind of like the butterfly and the cocoon. (Score 1) 243
Without the struggle to get out, the butterfly can't develop strong wings to fly.
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Comment Re:Reputation (Score 5, Informative) 212
My employer unfortunately uses Oracle's HR management systems also. Worst piece of enterprise software I've ever seen. I have physical pain any time I have to use it. Their big iron databases used to be the shit, but even those seem to be going the way of the dodo as much cheaper, easier to use options are available these days.
Comment The terrorists have won. (Score 2) 376
It just kills me that those in power with their jingoistic cries of "they hate our freedom" are the ones stripping us of our freedom. It kills me even more that we, as a nation, keep electing them. It's as if we are actively doing this to ourselves.
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.
Submission + - Nexus One now available for AT&T 3G (blogspot.com)
alx512 writes: Google Nexus One now compatible with AT&T 3G
Comment You can turn this off (Score 1) 146
You can remove your phone number from settings / phone / my number. Then when the code tries to read your phone'ss number it gets nil.
Comment Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin (Score 1) 630
... and Michael Shermer.
Great read on how to quickly do complex arithmetic in your head.
