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Couldn't get it to recognize the "look of disapproval" character :-(

Great job. Needs a "pause" button IMO.

Very true. I still have a cheap USB hub in translucent plastic from the Imac First Generation era.

Slow programming languages battle across time: http://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering: http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

Back in the 90's they also included a TCP/IP stack into Win95, which used to be a (horrible) 3rd party app on Win3.1.

Hi Mike, thanks for your kind offer!

We have an old Windows XP machine that I would like to replace with a newer Windows 7 one. However, my wife is used to the old machine; in particular she has Internet Explorer manage all her auto-complete's and username/passwords for different sites she uses.

I looked around for tools to at least copy the passwords to the new machine but 1) Microsoft says it's not supported 2) the unofficial tools all look super-sketchy.

Any ideas of how to transplant the auto-completes and passwords to a new machine?

I wouldn't say that the articles' metadata (URL, title, date of download, maybe thumbnail of the 1st page) is downloaded content. It's clearly user-generated, and should be in the "home" of the app IMHO.

The articles themselves, yes, send them to the cache. If the user needs to reclaim the storage used up by the articles, let the OS delete them. Then, when the user needs to read the article again, it will take some time to download. But don't get into an "all articles gone" situation. Just my 2 cents.

I can totally believe it, we went with the family once to visit/snoop around the Google campus, but if Eric Schmidt or Larry Page had showed up, I don't think I would have recognized them. (And we use Google products every day.)

My recommendation is to take your lumps and move on.

Can you convince your parents to support you for a couple of years until you get your high school diploma and start college? Go into some money-making career that they approve of if needed. Once in college, you can start networking and planning your next move.

Just make them feel like you are back to being a good citizen and that you will go back to earn your keep once you have your college degree.

Oh, and tell your so-called "friends" to go pound sand.

Thanks. I thought it was some Buddhist syllable.

Like the blog post says, "poor design ruins lives"... that silly font already costed me 3 downvotes.

Please enlighten an uninitiated: what does "mo" mean in the last panel?

Or maybe they underestimated the cost of the loss of customer goodwill the split would cause vs the cost of the "underlying cause".

I think you misspelled 'amirite'. Also, yesterday's APPL fall was like 6%. Right on all remaining points.

Number 3 looks interesting. Maybe become a cloud-based competitor to VBulletin.

(Make sure that transitioning from the old forum to the new one is as painless as possible, though. Forum members usually hate any changes to their forums.)

You could also try selling the Latin-America version (Spanish only) cheaper than the USA-English version.

    "It's not pretending if they've muted you, you're being ignored."

Do they at any time say how much faster than light are those neutrinos moving? 1% faster? 100 times faster? I couldn't see that info anywhere.

My condolences Ed.

I wonder how much the name "Moodle" hindered its adoption.

Sincerely, I'd prefer all my digital remains to be cremated.

Yeah, what's up with that zero-sum-game malarkey?

Depends on how much respect I have for the tool.

The TCP/IP stack: strive to understand it.

Random Java SOAP abomination: get in, make it work, get out.

Apart from D. Foster Wallace, another pioneer in the usage of ironic prose in journalism would be Wired Magazine. (They started publication in 1993.)

Perl programmers do seem to comment a lot... the "#" looks almost as heavily used as the "$", which is mandatory for variables.

>> Why does my pinky has to do most the work?

Same thing happens with the saxophone keywork. It seems that pinkies get to handle all the stuff that was not included in the original spec.

Oh, you want to add a shift key? Let the pinky handle it. A C# key? No problem, we can fit it in the pinky cluster.

Fair enough. Usually, when I copy files to USB I have 2 windows open and drag from one to another.

The "send to" email, however: I don't think you can use it with any web-based email, correct? Do people usually have Outlook set up on their machines these days?

Yes, instead of the menu bar they have this weird bar with "Organize", "New Folder", and "Burn". Not sure why "Burn" on every single explorer window; maybe they think all users are Napster fiends or something...

The "copy to" and "move to" buttons, seem to be some variation on the old "send to" command, which is currently available via both right-click and menu bar. (For those not familiar with Windows: if I select a file, the "send to" options are: compressed folder, create desktop shortcut, documents, fax, email, burn to DVD, network directory.)

Personally, that's an command that I never use; not sure how popular it is with the Windows userbase in general.

Opa is Argentinian slang for "retarded" :-(

Am I the only one that found that French fries illustration to be terrible? Cheesy picture that purports to be a "chart", that shows 2 values, plus the cryptical legend "French fries do not reflect actual earnings-per-share gains." And I'm not even much of a Tufte fanatic myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk