We'd love to. Unfortunately, a run-off system takes power away from the 2 parties that have power, so no politicians will support it. So despite what people want, or what's good for democracy, it will never happen.

Same thing with gerrymandering. It disrupts true democracy, but the powers-that-be don't care. They care about power more than they care about representing our people.

As somebody that's making an Atari 2600 game now for fun, I'd LOVE to have 256 bytes of ram to work with. The machine only has 128. It's painful and wonderful all at the same time.

Mainly because of ROM space restraints. Putting in a nice title graphic could quickly use up your precious ROM space. More ROM space required more ROM chips, which, when the atari first game out, were somewhat expensive per-unit, so Atari made less profit off of each cartridge (and/or had to charge more). . Particularly if you got above the 4K limit, which meant you had to introduce extra circuitry in the cartridge to handle bank switching, which would raise the price further.

By later in the atari's life, these presumably became significantly cheaper, so more games had title screens.

This is the #1 reason why I install cyanogenmod on every phone I use. It lets you deny/approve individual permissions per app.

Many developers (including myself) would consider Jetbrains' IDEs to be some of the best development tools available today. They are written in java.

Just because you've encountered a lot of garbage, doesn't mean that it's all garbage.

<nerd-alert>According to The Padawan Menace, (a silly lego Star Wars TV special) Han went by the name Ian when he snuck into the Jedi Training facility on Coruscant as a child.</nerd-alert>

Dang, if only I still had my mod points from yesterday. You would get all of them for that post.

Yes.

Have you tried it? I have two 24" monitors, one portrait, one landscape. I use it for writing code, where having more vertical space is really helpful. My eyes are even with the center of the portrait monitor, and I don't get neck strain at all. Things on the very top and very bottom of the screen aren't quite as comfortable to look at, but general those are things that only require occasional glances (IDE menus, status bar, etc). Overall, I find it incredibly useful, and quite comfortable.

Sure, it may not be for everyone, but why state negative assumptions about something that you haven't tried?

I receive all my hangouts messages in pidgin using XMPP, so somehow it works.

(I'm not saying they have it all working correctly. I've never completely understood the mess that is voice/hangouts/google talk/etc. But I do know that when I get a hangouts message, it appears both on my phone and in pidgin via XMPP)

Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me. While there can be valid reasons for Christians to not attend church, I'd guess that the vast majority of that class of people are folks who claim to have a faith, but either haven't really thought through if they REALLY believe what their faith suggests, or are just too lazy/uncommitted to actually take any sort of action based on their beliefs. Both of which would point towards character traits that could be detrimental to surviving the challenges associated with marriage.

Huh. It started working again. Nevermind.

The link to the actual article in the summary doesn't work. Does anybody have the right link?

Once again, proving just how much work is done by the "editors" around here.

Why, slashdot, why, do you let this guy post this nonsense? It almost makes me miss John Katz.

Ok, time for an off-topic side story. Feel free to mod me off-topic, but I can't resist.

My kids (6 years old) came home with a book list of books they were supposed to get from the library and read. One of them was about some Dogs from some farm. So my wife comes home with the book from the library. As I start reading it, I notice the author's name: John Katz. That can't be the same John Katz can it? Turns out, yes. John Katz, after moving on from posting drivel on slashdot, is now writing children's books. And my school district was making my children read them. There's no escape!

So I'm pretty sure, once slashdot finally gets the message that nobody here cares a lick about what Bennett Hassleton thinks, he'll turn up somewhere else equally miserable.

To any newbies that don't know how to do it, you can hide all of redelm's spam crap. Click his name, then click the little orb by his name, and make him a foe.

Then go the comments preferences page, scroll down, and set a -5 (or whatever) modifier to your foes. You won't have to see his crap again.