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Comment Worked great for me! (Score 1) 1055

I had a 9/80 schedule for two summers, and I greatly enjoyed it. To me, once I get to 10 hours @ work per day, my productivity drops, so the 4/10 schedule could get a bit tiring. The 9/80 schedule is a great balance in providing every other Friday off. Plus, on the Fridays that I did work, the office was quieter, since others had the day off, so I was more productive. I'd imagine that the boss/environment would affect how successful such a schedule is, but I loved it, personally.

Comment Re:In that case, (Score 5, Informative) 412

Simplistically, this psalm expresses grief and revenge by those who had been captured by the Babylonians.

(And "blessed" means "happy", not "God condones this and will bless you")

Looking into it more, though, I learned of a larger historical context (Taken from here):

"It is important to remember that the curses of Psalm 137 are not originally the psalmistâ(TM)s curses. They are the Lordâ(TM)s curses which the psalmist has made his own. The destruction of Edom was the fulfillment of prophecy, particularly the prophecy of Obadiah. In Isaiah 13:16, which was written about 200 years before Babylonâ(TM)s fall, the destruction of Babylon was prophesied in almost the exact terms used in Psalm 137. The destruction of the children who were too young to be transported into slavery was a common practice in ancient warfare. Since this cruelty was apparently practiced by the Babylonians during their campaigns of conquest against Israel, Babylon would receive from its Persian and Median conquerors the same treatment which it had inflicted on Israel (Jeremiah 50:29; 51:56). "
Software

Submission + - How to sell a video game idea?

fobsta writes: "Do any Slashdotters have experience of selling video game ideas? I'm an artist whose programmed a rough as nails demo and animated a trailer to explain my concept. Obviously I think it's fun, it shows promise and my friends think it's cool. Who should I pitch the idea to? Existing video games companies, venture capitalists or what about those dentists that financed the Amiga? Are they still around? Having had a previous idea hijacked and received no reward for it whatsoever how can I prevent this happening again?"
Windows

Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? 695

parvenu74 writes "A story from Infoworld is suggesting that the days of Windows are numbered and that Microsoft is preparing a web-based operating system code-named Midori as a successor. Midori is reported to be an offshoot of Microsoft Research's Singularity OS, an all-managed code microkernel OS which leverages a technology called software isolated processes (SIPs) to overcome the traditional inter-thread communications issues of microkernel OSes."
Censorship

IOC Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China 380

Dave writes "BEIJING (Reuters) — Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted on Wednesday. Persistent pollution fears and China's concerns about security in Tibet also remained problems for organizers nine days before the Games begin. China had committed to providing media with the same freedom to report on the Games as they enjoyed at previous Olympics, but journalists have this week complained of finding access to sites deemed sensitive to its communist leadership blocked. 'I regret that it now appears BOCOG has announced that there will be limitations on website access during Games time,' IOC press chief Kevan Gosper said, referring to Beijing's Olympic organizers. 'I also now understand that some IOC officials negotiated with the Chinese that some sensitive sites would be blocked on the basis they were not considered Games related,' he said." But yet somehow the mainstream media will ignore this because the Olympics are patriotic or something.
NASA

NASA Turns 50 160

phobos13013 writes "Fifty years ago yesterday, in 1958, President Eisenhower signed the United States Public Law 85-568, National Aeronautics and Space Act to create NASA. In the fifty years since its creation, NASA has made manned missions landing on the Moon, put a space station in orbit, launched numerous unmanned missions to the Moon, Mars, the solar system, and beyond, as well as launching reusable manned spacecraft in orbit. Some of the failures included the loss of two manned spacecraft and their crews as well as the loss of the Apollo 1 crew during a training mission. Although the future of the organization is in question, Americans, and the world, are looking forward to another fifty years of progress including a return trip to the Moon and an eventual manned mission to Mars."

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