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@nathanbowers I find your beliefs fascinating, but Mr. Cold Hard Data disagrees with you :) http://is.gd/5sTIx

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@nathanbowers blurry text is wrong too, because it's hard to read. Like I said, pick your poison. Only real solution: high DPIs.

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@jzy turn off is inferior to cleartype pixelgrid snapping at low dpi. "off" is a boil the sea 'option'

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@haacked wildcats mappings sounds dangerous!

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@jongalloway I know, against all odds Avatar is getting good reviews. It *looks* comically bad.

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@carnage4life people "plan" to do lots of stuff. What matters is where the money actually goes.. everything else is BS.

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@mikehall slavery got a bad rap, man...

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@wilshipley you know OSX is really just Xerox Parc's Alto, right?

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@pawelbrodzinski you should keep in mind http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/

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@jacobladams exactly, lol. GOLDSTAR!

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@wilshipley man you and Windows 7 need to GET A ROOM

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@pawelbrodzinski wow, that's an amazing compliment -- thank you! And leave feedback on http://meta.stackoverflow.com if we can improve

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@samsaffron not quite -- nowhere in your post did you mention use of the username. Peter Mortensen did, however..

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@kevindente the real analogy is pair programming, and that's sort of intentional. Team up!

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@haacked you know you CAN delete tweets right? Make it happen :)

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@deadprogrammer isn't a lot of stuff moving to solid-state caps?

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@deadprogrammer {{citation needed}} in my experience, it's hard drives and PSUs that fail, all the time. Nothing else even close.

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@blowdart white chocolate is made by the DEVIL!

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@jonskeet that *is* serious! get well soon! also, should we send out an advisory to let others know a window of rep opportunity is open? :)

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@mattcutts I don't know if I'd accept that kind of advice from a "level 1" webmaster with a generic avatar. :)

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@carnage4life facebook's walled garden wasn't evil, just dumb. But selling out your users is undeniably evil. there are other ways.

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@carnage4life horny is not the same as evil

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@nathanbowers yeah, that's how I felt when I saw the TechCrunch logo in my twitter stream. Nasty obscene snuff porn image.

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@gollyjer it's hard to say; feels wrong to me, but maybe the other 53% are static html, which is undeniably faster.

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@kevinmarks could I trouble you for an email introduction to @rajbot ?

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@jzy I can't think of anything I want to share that should be private. I can think of things I don't want to share, though..

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@portman_wills you're missing the point: their entire mission statement was wrong. Can't be both things. I hope they die trying, though.

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@perspx it's not a sympathy problem it's a celebrity problem. I try to use it for good and not evil, but it is inherently unfair.

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@edbott yeah, I've had a few bad experiences with the USPS shipping type as well. Erratic. Was a surprise to me..

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@textfiles excellent, thanks -- the images are turning into the tricky bit to recover. I have a partial backup here to 2006..

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@donny_v it's mapping your single search term to a tag. by-design

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@flogic yeah, but that's why we pay the hosting provider -- to be experts in this stuff. If I need to be, then that's missing the point

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@wilshipley why aren't you using the 64-bit version? Also, awesome people have 12GB now. 8GB is lame and passe.

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@shanselman it's definitely in the BIOS options. Just look under SATA settings for each channel or a "mode" selector.

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@shanselman unlikely; the "mode" of each SATA channel determines if it's AHCI or legacy emulation. Not much difference either way IMHO

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@deadprogrammer some family resemblance, I see :)

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@adamstel that's why I was thinking of it :)

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@shanselman doesn't Acronis True Image offer a free full function trial? Would that work? I've used it before that way

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@seifsallam no, but I think Opera should, absolutely

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@spatacoli it sucked royally, and I eventually sold that 32 GB SSD drive. First gen FT-massive-L.

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@betsyphd "I don't do evites."

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@brunomlopes @kevinmarks the issue is that the design is broken; adding "unit tests" is a sloppy band-aid over that

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@edbott they did the same exact thing for Vista -- family pack was gone in the wink of an eye. Lame. :(

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@drewm I already have existing class names for styles on this page; i ain't rebuilding it. I'm tagging with semantic class names, null style

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@jzy the microformat classes will be null 'styles', they have no styling information defined in the css. Hopefully IE6 can deal with that.

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@jongalloway yeah, it's AWESOME that we already have a "url" styling class defined, which conflicts with the 'meta' "url" class = lame.

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@mattcutts search.. google.. honestly, I'm not seeing the connection there

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@kevindente some people find the space bar "too stiff" and also have issues with where they put pressure on it. Never had an issue, myself

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@jongalloway the modern interpretation of zombie is "rage virus", which makes somewhat more sense, though not by much

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@julesdc why so angry? Win7 is what Vista should have been. Solid upgrade.

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@dmunsie it's the motherboard chipset stuff that is responsible for reinstall needs, typically

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@thecodemonk triple channel.. 6 slots x 2 gb each. 4gb dimms are "if you have to ask you can't afford it" expensive

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@kevindente GEE PERFORMANCE IS A FEATURE ISNT IT

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@nathanbowers that guy is on twitter, I can't remember his name. ask him.

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@Cannonade 3163 has a nice ring to it.. no?

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@mattcutts I wanted to vote for that, but BugZilla destroyed my will to live. Again.

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@timbray Hey, XML is "easy" to read too! Good times. :p

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@mattcutts the page speed data in webmaster tools for stackoverflow.com seems .. *really* off. Average of 3 sec per page? erhm.. uh..

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@jzy be sure to disable right click as well.. :)

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@mattjeffryes it's not the important, necessary half...

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@simey that's a new one, ask it as a question on http://meta.stackoverflow.com and get community feedback

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@spolsky OMG I TOTALLY HAVE ROCK BAND SKILLS!!!!

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@betsyphd still cheaper than a monthly car payment of $300+!

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@RockBandAide fair warning, that buy.com deal is a RB1 wireless strat which is IMO *considerably* worse than the RB2 strat

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@timbray don't get me wrong, I do appreciate good photos. Just not personally interested in the process. But I do like Star Trek, I swear!!

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@siracusa I figure once the camera mfgs get bored with the idiotic megapixel race, they'll add SLR-class image quality. Anyway: meh.

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@siracusa easy: turn on the lights, or move where there's more light. Are your kids bats? Problem solved, no $3k enorm-o-camera necessary.

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@siracusa have you considered .. boating?

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@hmxcasey she can't download Abbey Road on Wii. CASE F'ING CLOSED.

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@ALyman lol, been there done that :p our databases are getting so large that I don't think our web tier servers can work as backups!

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@jonskeet you are sooo lucky I can't downvote that :)

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@xinmyname nope, I have "Windows Firefox (Virtual XP)" in my start menu. Try again!

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@wilshipley in Left4Dead2 you get a F**KING CHAINSAW. 'nuff said.

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@wilshipley borderlands, meh, wasn't feeling it. Now Left 4 Dead 2, that's another story. These zombies ain't gonna kill *themselves*.

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@gvanlee I'll "fix it" by dropping Firefox like a rock as soon as Chrome v4 (the plugins release) is public.

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@novaspivack wrong, it's only bad for Bing and Murdoch, and they need to do it so others will treat it as a cautionary tale when it fails

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@lazycoder why do you give me advice for free? Keep that valuable stuff to yourself! :)

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@lazycoder wake me up when you have the work done for us. I'll be waiting.. oh, and don't make any mistakes or break anything. :)

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@haacked css vs. tables: nobody cares. And if you have time to care, then you aren't doing anything worthwhile by definition.

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@psaffo sounds lovely, needs picture!

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@y0mbo do you know How to Ask Questions the Smart Way? See http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq

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@nev sorry, it's wrong -- my Twitter join date is early 2006. I was there in person, so that's how I know.

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@holgr nope, shows 2007 for me but I joined Twitter in early 2006.

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@scobleizer http://whendidyoujointwitter.com/ doesn't work; twitter doesn't know of all your messages, they discard the oldest ones. Sucks.

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@kevindente "I was in the room with Ray Ozzie .. Ray definitely didn't say (or mean) that 'apps don't matter'" http://is.gd/4XCjJ

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@kevindente I'm 99.9% sure Ozzie is being misquoted. Can you find the actual source, the transcript of what he said? My point exactly.

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@siracusa well we have both, fortunately. :) And how "correct" is "correct"?

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@teamonej hang in there, you only need 10 rep. We have to protect against spammers as we allow 100% anonymous participation.