I gotta do it, `cause I really dig some of them:

Numeric (22250):
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!

stefanlasiewski (63134):
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."

Doesn't_Comment_Code (692510)
Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein believed in God. So do I.
*bonus points for user name :-)

FYI, I am hosting the William Gibson-read Neuromancer audiobook on the "warez" p2p net. The Edge (from U2) did the excellent techno-ish soundtrack. Plus, having Gibson himself do the reading gives it a nice flavor. It consists of eight 45min segments.

AFAIK, this is in the public domain; if anyone knows otherwise, please let me know.

Enjoy!

Peace & Blessings

If I was home-brewing a cellphone app to prioritize my contacts, does anyone out there know if I can send personalized info in the cellphone call header? I know that there is a std packet of info that gets sent (which includes caller id info), but I'd like to add an "urgency" code. Of course, only users of my software could send such a code to my app, but I'm imagining having both ends running this software.

Thanks in advance.

You know the idea that there are angels sitting on our shoulders, one good and one bad, each making its case in the attempt to convince us to do their bidding? Well, it's true, though they are not angels.

The poet Rumi entitled an entire volume of poems "We Are Three". That three consists of:

1) The physical body.
2) The soul.
3) The spirit.

If you download *and keep* a song, movie of software and have no intention of paying for it, then you ARE STEALING. Yeah, I know, copyright infringement, blah, blah, blah. In my book, it's called stealing.

With Moore's Law plugging away for some 30+ years now, we are seeing a severe devaluation of information. Now that we have 200+ gig hard drives and ~5 gig writable dvd-roms, the amount of information that you can *personally* own is absurdly large.

People have already started suggesting systems being capable of storing a person's entire personal experience. Beyond the absurdity of such a self-important endeavor, this is actually pointing towards a completely new value of information.

Never have I been so disgusted with a piece of software. I paid the $30 thinking I would get a better version of RealPlayer. I could not have been more wrong. What I got was a jumble of difficult-to-use crap, but that's not the problem, because most software is that way. It's the fact that they pop up ridiculous ads at their discretion that pisses me off. It is unethical and, to compound stupid upon stupid, it makes me say the following:

Slashdot proves everyday that the more people are gathered in a public forum, the lower the quality of majority opinion.

Futher, it is quite possible that a threshold has been reached and exceeded which all but guarantees 99% worthlessness.

The only solution that comes to mind is to have a selection process to allow posting. Of course, that opens up a whole other can of worms (multiple cans, really) that can take worthlessness to a whole *other* level.

"There is a direct relation between the organization of project code and probability of the success of it being properly implemented."

Refactor, reorganize, repeat.

a good laugh.

"Any design that does not contain contradictory specs can be implemented perfectly (meaning without bugs)."

First off, if you don't believe this, don't even bother. And this doesn't pertain just to programming.

"A programmer either takes care of *all* of the details, or they suck."

C'mon people, dot those I's and cross those T's.

And smile while you're doing it :-)

that if you don't care enough to learn how to spell, you're never gonna make bug-free code.

I can just hear it:

"Oh, that combination will never occur."
"Oh, the user won't ever hit that key."

See the "3rd Law of Computer Programming"

There is *absolutely* no reason, whatsoever, that you should touch a monitor. Unless, of course, it's a touch-screen.

Sub-clause a: My monitor is *not* a touch-screen.