Comment Re:Insurance (Score 1) 666
Is that you Elwood ?
It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas...
Comment Re:I don't want (Score 1) 403
We just need to get the guy with the black hat to make us an app that will combine all of our cloud storage accounts under one umbrella so that we can work with it all at once.
http://xkcd.com/908/
Comment Can't believe it's gone this long ... (Score -1, Redundant) 146
Have you ever seen fire in zero gravity?
It's beautiful. It's like liquid it... slides all over everything. Comes up in waves.
Comment LOFAR... (Score 1) 100
Of the Hill People ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc3jMgvmC8
Comment Yes... well almost... (Score 2, Informative) 605
Developers have near admin privileges. Everything is locked down via GPO, and developers are in our own OU.
We are admins on Development and Production servers so that can we handle application deployment, maintenance etc.
There are still some functions that we don't have access to, things like the virus scan, HIPS, Desktop validator, Smart card interface etc.
We can install/uninstall applications etc, but there is a finite list of software we can use, and if we get caught with unapproved software on a computer on the network, we will have a lot of explaining to do... to people with sidearms.
Turning Classic Literary Works Into Games 93
Adventure Classic Gaming is running an interview with Chris Tolworthy, an indie game designer who is working on a project to make video games out of various literary classics. His decision to develop these kinds of games was sparked by a desire to reach out to gamers who want more "serious" subject matter, as well as finding an audience among people you would find in a book store, rather than a game store. Tolworthy has already released one game, an adaptation of Les Misérables, and has almost finished Dante's Divine Comedy. After that is done, he'll move on to other works, including Theogeny, by Hesiod, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, aiming for two or three releases a year. He said, "I try to keep as close as possible to the original text. When I create a game I simply go through the book and adapt it chapter by chapter. As far as possible all my puzzles are based on ideas in the original book. So my Dante's Inferno is a lot closer to the book than EA Games' Dante's Inferno that changes Dante into a warrior with a giant scythe! Although I stick closely to the story, I would find it boring to only give the straight text, so my games always give a different twist. For example, I show Les Miserables from the point of view of a minor character who dies early on. In my Divine Comedy I show other points of view as well as Dante's, and they don't see things the same way. Really, what I'm doing is what theater directors do when they put a Shakespeare play into a modern setting. It's the exact same story, but presented in a new way."
Comment Why doesn't monthly cost go down with no phone... (Score 5, Interesting) 300
I use Verizon atm, and I noticed that if you open an account, and get a subsidized phone by signing a 2 year agreement you get whatever the rate is. Why, after two years, when theoretically you have paid for the subsidized phone, doesn't your monthly bill go down. Now if you upgrade the phone after 2 years with a 2year renewal, I can see keeping the price the same. But otherwise, they should be required to tell you how much of what you are paying each month is going to paying for the phone, and drop that cost when the phone is paid for.
Also, if you bring your own phone, you don't get a reduced rate, you just don't have to sign up for 2 years.
Comment Number 9 (Score 1) 320
I remember my first AGP card, a 128bit Number 9.
They were certainly short lived.
Comment As bad as Theif 3 was... (Score 2) 102
It still included one of the best levels of any game in the history of ever and awesome.
The Shalebridge Cradle. This level alone gets me to play Theif 3 every so often.
Comment Last 5 minutes of CoD4 (Score 1) 57
The last 5 minutes of CoD4, where you have been going after this certain terrorist, everyone else is dead and you finally end the hunt. It gets all slow-motiony (word?) for that last shot. Loved it.
Submission + - Handling Interviews after being a Fall Guy
bheer writes: "Salon's Since You Asked column is carrying an interesting question right now — what do you say in interviews after getting fired as a fall guy at your last job? Cary Tennis, who writes the column, admits he may not be the best person for this sort of question. So I thought I'd ask Slashdotters what they thought about this. Software developers are sometimes able to get away blaming the business requirements/analysis process, but anyone with any experience in this business probably has had nightmares about being the fall guy and may even have a strategy or two up their sleeve. How would deal with being in such a crummy position?"
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