@factormystic scales has to be a mistranslation. It makes zero sense in English.

@deadprogrammer yeah, with @hotdogsladies sometimes it's hard to tell there's an actual human being in there, sometimes

@wilshipley hmm, let me refer to my big book o' hate, volume XVII. Oh yes, there it is, section 59, sub-section Zeta, corollary three.

@wilshipley I guess because you can tie anti-gay to religion, so the answer is "God told me what these people are doing is immoral." Shrug.

@dehora that article is from 2004, eons ago in internet time http://tinyurl.com/5xoe7d

@wilshipley your TODO is more like a TODONT , amirite?

@serialseb there's no way 15 consecutive downvotes against the same person, within a single day, could be valid. IMO.

@natefanaro well played, sir. well played. http://tinyurl.com/3w5q5o

@wilshipley pretty much *all* conventions and trade shows (for exhibitors) are mob type scams. This is not Apple specific at all.

@conroyp WHAT!! Flight of the Conchords back - series 2 premiere released online http://tinyurl.com/57djjx

@darkuncle it's the spicy cajun sausage that makes the mac + cheese pop.

@NathanBowers that's hilarious (view source) http://nhupa.org/

@kevindente we were going to go with Child Molester Atwood.

@wilshipley is it TED time again? For the important people to gather and discuss important things of dire importance?

@saraford +1 @kevindente add a "violator" to the existing cp design. (yes, this is an actual design term.. heh)

@bradwilson lots of VC-1 Planet Earth is 80%-100% load on a dual core 2.3 Ghz Athlon. It's on the ragged edge of playability.

@eschaton well I have CoreAVC's optimized H.264 codec; VC-1 doesn't appear quite so optimized..

@nathanbowers er, why wouldn't you just type "espn" then enter? You're overthinking this.

@aanttila get a new Jasper model for $199

@wilshipley you should be ashamed of making fun of my mom. Here's a recent pic of her http://is.gd/bGhP

@saalon 2.7 UI is generic and CMS-y. Although for the record there is nothing, NOTHING I love more than "managing content" with a "system".

@stroz it's a MIDI file, so it depends on the sample set you use (scroll to bottom, here) http://tinyurl.com/6x7oqg

@chris_mahan no, it isn't; I think the DB server restarted to apply patches.

@waxpancake LOL, the Cosby cease-and-desist email list is the same as the regular mailing list.

@wilshipley ask Stack Overflow

@BM5k AnyDVD HD produces raw rip files, 20+GB, with no copy protection. Just try it and you'll see how it works.

@gkra I'm pretty sure once you rip with AnyDVD HD, the movie file(s) can be played back anywhere with something like ffdshow, easy

@jongalloway why, for same reason I do everything else I do: because I hate myself. Any questions?

@jongalloway will it work from Windows? Most WordPress stuff only works 100% on Linux and kinda-sorta-maybe-sometimes works under Windows.

@bradwilson not sure I need any of 'em; just rip, rename large file to .avi or .mkv, and that file plays in Vista media center just fine

@troygoode the only winning strategy is iron-clad buyer collusion not to bid, and that'll never work. It's *awesomely* evil, prolly illegal.

@troygoode don't forget that bidding near the end *extends* the auction, too. I always wondered if eBay would do this.

@bbatsell well, it's $1,500 for 48 GB RAM or $600 for 24 GB RAM. Our database will fully fit in memory either way for.. er.. a while.

@lazycoder 8 GB sticks is silly; server doesn't even support that. Try pricing lots of 2GB sticks to fill those 12 slots on the server.

@lazycoder we'd use 2 GB ECC DDR2-667 DIMMs x 12 -- that's under $500 for 24 GB @ newegg. Not sure where you're getting your crazy #s from.

@averyj I'm inconvinced EC2 will offer the eight-core CPU and 24 GB of memory that I want in a single instance. Also, performance.. dunno

@karlseguin have you PRICED memory recently? They give it away in boxes of corn flakes.

@timbray play as the infected! nothing is more fun than ruining the survivors' chances for survival! or, maybe that's just me.

@kch nobody told us there would be *smileys* in unicode! or *stars*!

@chadmyers you're asking unanswerable questions; the system is only broken insofar as people are broken (eg, voting bad answers up)

@bdehamer probably AnyDVD HD http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html

@migueldeicaza you know Galloway doesn't love you like I do.

@codearachnid here's my HTPC build post with the earlier version of that mobo (lacks sideport mem) http://is.gd/9rL

@wendelldotme Ninja Ponies. Will the wonders of the internet never cease? http://ninjaponies.com/

@cisellis ninja kittens is just.. bizarre.. http://tinyurl.com/5mvx4d

@bertcraven 4.0 for an integrated on-board mobo video card is frickin' *amazing*, imjustsayin

@whyaduck "was just talking to FotC at lunch" SHUT UP NO YOU DI'NT!

@migueldeicaza except for obscurities and rarities, rental is a better model for mobile devices -- "giant jukebox in the sky"

@trevorbramble what's your news source on the FotC season 2? I had lost hope because they were on tour forever..

@larsw everything that's not WinNT is pretty much Unix, am I wrong?

@adi yeah, but you could make the same argument about 43folders' productivity tips. Want to be more productive? Stop reading tips.

@hotdogsladies can you provide tips on how to make something "awesome"?

@gatekiller you don't have to encrypt, you shouldn't be storing passwords at all -- only the hash of the password needs to be stored

@scottlaw it's true, only terrorists would refuse to buy, thus collectively destroying our economy. Remember: it's got electrolytes!

@wilshipley so that's why you haven't accepted my friend request on Friendster. dick. http://profiles.friendster.com/codinghorror

@hotdogsladies @ginatrapani when "wrapping", putting the link at the end is kind of uncool; should be in the first 2 paragraphs IMO.

@tobin for recommended netbooks look at TechReport http://techreport.com/articles.x/15414/6

@kevindente the laptop works fine with the DPI changes. I now suspect the hack to get remote desktop working in Home Premium.

@jeffmoser awesome, thank you, I will check out Alan Kay's Dynabook talk http://tinyurl.com/6cvqaz

@mstum true, now I can get the version with the 128mb of video DDR2 memory soldered on the mobo http://is.gd/aqOI

@hisshadow I'm using a raw dump of the Casino Royale Blu-Ray for testing. it's the most intensive video file I have. CoreAVC seems best..

@nycerine nice, I didn't realize CoreAVC was finally available. It's almost 2x as fast as ffdshow on the full 1080p blu-ray rip I have

@NathanBowers I must be a genius, then, because I know exactly what problem OpenID solves: 1,000 websites, 1,000 username/password combos

@patrickfoley Joel secretly monitors Twitter. He just won't admit it.

@sdfx who is this "Joel Spolsky" you are speaking of?

@saraford LOL, "The Village" MSFT campus. That can't be good. Seen any "monsters"?

@shanselman if you want to put that excellent $600 Intel SSD in a $300 netbook, be my guest. :P

@shanselman I said the slow/tiny SSDs that go in $300 netbooks are slow. They're basically cheap USB keys. Consider the pricing.

@orcmid I enjoyed your O(1) question http://tinyurl.com/5tg7ff

@shanselman actually, I propose a future where there is no difference between the IDE and the language. Same thing.

@cparker15 what I meant was, pursuit of your interests > pursuit of money

@HMXCasey mmm, street vendor hot dogs.. oh, the delicious nitrates!

@bcook I love that the followcost.com thing is measured in "milliscobles", LOL

@superdalgas your words startle and frighten me

@shanselman lol, that book has a female Raving Rabbid in a bikini (p.36). HAWWT! http://is.gd/abaX

@shanselman tell that to the customers!

@shanselman the funny thing is, as I wrote that, I am literally logged in to our production server. again. :)

@shanselman ah, so there's that "banking security" you were lecturing the stackoverflow.com team about.. :)

@kevindente netbooks have borderline perf already; saddling them with a slow/cheap/tiny SSD is like adding insult to injury.

@shanselman the $600 intel one is quite nice, but in a netbook that costs $300? Not bloody f'ing likely.

@shanselman I think you're in the moneymoon phase with the mini 9, personally. Much better netbook choices out there IMNSHO.

@shanselman just realize those small/cheap SSDs cut disk speed in *half* vs. a typical, modern 2.5" HDD

@atcrawford no way, the HDTV lady was the pianist in that rock opera episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia -- you're right!!

@kevinmarks we designed our site to be part of the fabric of the internet. At the center of that Internet is the "Google"

@cbenard that'd be a better Stack Overflow question IMO http://tinyurl.com/5h3ylo

@skrenta I almost feel sorry for the sales guys. almost.

@haacked and that, when done right, is REAAAAAAAAAAALLLY effective.

@haacked the final answer to that, which most people don't want to hear, is "screw you, start a company and compete with us."

@haacked it's a little naive. I can point to lots of examples of constructive, speculative work that is completely ignored and disregarded.

@siovene the number means that Google pretty much owns the internet. No other search engines matter, other direct links matter very little.

@kevindente found 1 other person with same problem. No solution. http://tinyurl.com/6cfklt

@kevindente I guess there's something wrong with the Vista install on the HTPC specific to DPI, but I rarely mess with this box.

@mstum tried changing vista DPI in safe mode, no effect there either. this is driving me nuts,

@jrgarcia -- I can't find any DPI setting in the ATI control panel.. latest drivers from the ATI/AMD website.

@jrgarcia same logging in under different profile, DPI is set to 196 but no change.

@kevindente Firefox3, when zoomed in, makes the twitter web input box crazy slow. You asked about this; there's your explanation.

@nathanbowers I officially endorse this plan; risk: our child ends up with a lame mutant superpower like Cypher or Dazzler.

@saadware opinions vary, but my opinion is that Yahoo's OpenID implementaiton is extra double-plus confusing

@migueldeicaza me.yahoo.com -- there's your problem right there. Create a new OpenID at a non-terrible provider and I'll merge your accts

@migueldeicaza bah, it's no CUBE