Comment Re:As an Oracle DBA (Score 2, Insightful) 237
And Oracle in version 7 had a character based installer that didn't require X. And there's still no good reason for Oracle to require X for installation and installation alone.
The Neo-Geo Song 70
At least 50% of my paychecks would be converted into tokens and put into one of many Neo-Geo machines at the arcade when I was in high school. It's good that my favorite old games finally have an anthem.
xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."
Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans 397
ParticleGirl writes "New Scientist has an article examining 10 human features (bugs?) that we still don't understand, like blushing, laughing, and nose-picking. There are some interesting, speculative evolutionary explanations listed for each. '[Psychologist Robert R. Provine] thinks laughing began in our pre-human ancestors as a physiological response to tickling. Modern apes maintain the ancestral 'pant-pant' laugh when they are tickled during play, and this evolved into the human 'ha-ha.' Then, he argues, as our brains got bigger, laughter acquired a powerful social function — to bond people. Indeed, Robin Dunbar at the University of Oxford has found that laughing increases levels of endorphins, our body's natural opiates, which he believes helps to strengthen social relationships.'"
Comment Re:The Letter Was Written by NCsoft (Score 2, Informative) 107
Perhaps, however, they did play:
Ultima III;
Ultima IV;
Ultima VI;
Ultima VII (parts one and two); and
Ultima VIII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British#Assassination_of_Lord_British
Comment Re:G+A+M+B+L+I+N+G (Score 1) 561
I think it would be good to bring back capital gains taxes on profits that are made on short term investments.
Last I checked, short-term (assets held under one year) capital gains are taxed as regular income, whereas long-term capital gains are capped at 28%.
Comment Re:Amazing secret sites (Score 1) 538
Yes -- and we all know that PageRank is perfect at separating wheat from chaff and gold from dross.
It's one thing to find data; it's another thing to find information.
Journal Journal: Why "C:\Program Files\" ?!? 2
I've always installed software to the default location authored by the vendor, usually somewhere under "c:\Program Files\". Most installation software vendors (InstallShield, Wise, etc.) tout that location as an "industry standard best practice" for installing software on Windows systems and point to Microsoft's Application Development Guidelines. Now I'm working on the next release of some software that has been installed to a folder on the root of the hard drive for 25 years (that's not a ty
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