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2010 Winter Paralympics - The Big Picture

enkafan 0 points1 point 1 day ago[-]

This pictures are always inspiring. Those that like some of these pics probably will also like this nike commercial.

Question about playing hockey. How do I start playing?

enkafan 2 points3 points 2 days ago[-]

My local rink has a 10 week program for beginning players. They cover the basics of skating, positioning, passing, shooting, etc. They don't even play in a full game until week 9. Not going right into games has helped develop a lot of us into some very good players. We have a group of us that routinely play together against higher talented teams and simply manhandle them solely through solid positioning and strategy that you can't learn just hoping into a pickup game.

IAmA world record holder on six classic arcade video games. AMA

enkafan 2 points3 points 2 days ago[-]

I wouldn't want people finding me if I was Snot Boogie either.

New, But Not So Obvious, Features in .NET 4.0

enkafan 1 point2 points 4 days ago[-]

yeah, that was what i was implying. the parent implied exactly what I was getting at. The only reason you'd suggest a stringbuilder is if you were going for microseconds worth of optimizations, but even thing it seems string.join would still be faster

New, But Not So Obvious, Features in .NET 4.0

enkafan 3 points4 points 4 days ago[-]

string joined = string.Join(" - ", first, second);   

seems a lot easier than using a stringbuilder. Not to mention I'd assume this would be more efficient than using a stringbuilder which is not a cheap object to create and use for small amounts of concatenation.

Of course, the new string.join could use a stringbuilder behind the scenes - I don't have reflector handy to investigate.

Google Maps Adds Bike Lane Option

enkafan 0 points1 point 8 days ago[-]

wow, that's nice. thanks for the link

Hockey redditors: do you think your helmet (and all the other gear you wear) protects you from injury? - Parents of head-injured B.C. hockey player sue Bauer

enkafan 0 points1 point 8 days ago[-]

well, of course. if i was worried about 100% coverage from injury at all times I wouldn't get out of bed everyday.

Hockey redditors: do you think your helmet (and all the other gear you wear) protects you from injury? - Parents of head-injured B.C. hockey player sue Bauer

enkafan 2 points3 points 8 days ago[-]

hmmm, if it weren't for my helmet and shield I'd probably have cracked open my skull and have a fractured orbital bone. I probably would have at least broken my collar bone twice if it weren't for my shoulder pads, and I know my shins would have shattered if it weren't for my shin guards.

So yes, I do think they protect me from injury.

Google Maps Adds Bike Lane Option

enkafan 4 points5 points 8 days ago[-]

I have a good maps feature that I would like - worst case and best case trips due to traffic lights. The directions google gives me to hockey involve going past a shit ton of traffic lights. It is far quicker to take the 5 miles out the way route on the expressway to avoid it.

I think they already have speed limit's so one would think they could infer an approximate wait time per intersection that they could add to the drive time even if they can't get that data from cities.

Energizer battery charger contains backdoor - This is why open source, FOSS or otherwise, is important.

enkafan 2 points3 points 9 days ago[-]

I'd like to read more on how an open source battery charger software would have fixed this situation at all. I'm not some open source hater by any means, but I think the chances that someone who gave a shit about the source of a freaking battery charger driver would be exactly the type of person who would never be dumb enough to buy a battery charger that needs a windows driver install.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see how this driver being open source would have changed anything at all.

Photo taken on the New Jersey Turnpike

enkafan 4 points5 points 9 days ago[-]

While I still think it's a photoshop, that streetview could have been taken months if not years ago. Those graphics could easily have been done over the weekend, and I doubt they'll stay up long anyways.

For example, if streetview is to be taken as infalliable, what does it mean for me if I am currently working in a building that streetview doesn't think exists. I'm about 20 ft from the building with the red top on my desk.

Hard drive evolution could hit XP users.

enkafan 4 points5 points 9 days ago[-]

Depending on your machine, you may want to give Win7 a go. I wiped my old XP machine that I use for goofing around at home with a copy of Win7 from an MS show. Granted, it wasn't too old of a machine. 1.8 GHz P4 with a gig of ram, but Win7 seems to do much better with the limited resources than XP ever did. I don't think it'd run on an 800mhz machine though like XP would.

But that being said, I don't think the people sticking with XP on their 800mhz P3 are the ones going out and upgrading their hard drives to the latest and greatest. And for the few that may accidentally buy one of these drives the backwards comparability certainly makes it a non-issue.

In the last game at Freedom Hall, UofL beats #1 Syracuse.

enkafan 0 points1 point 10 days ago[-]

AnVillen does god's work with these videos.

An interesting article from Cracked about how video games companies get people addicted and why people are so susceptible to this

enkafan 3 points4 points 10 days ago[-]

I used to think like the parent comment did. I bought Tropico during the steam sale. Instead of cleaning my condo, going out and doing some of my hockey conditioning workouts, and getting dinner with my mom I sat and fucking adjust prices on fake sugar to make more fake money so I could make my fake citizens happier by buying them a fake fucking movie theater.

That's not entertainment. I paid them to turn my mind into a gerbil for 7 hours. I fell into the trap that this game was talking about.

Now, don't get me wrong. I will GLADLY pay $60 for ten hours worth of game play if it is solid. I don't need or even want hundreds of hours of game play anymore. I'm not my gamer score. I don't need 100% completion. I don't need to harvest every mineral from every planet in Mass Effect 2. I don't need to shoot every pigeon in GTA IV. I don't need to complete every courier mission in Assassins Creed. That's not entertainment.

A little nostalgia: People's Sexiest Man 1986.

enkafan 28 points29 points 14 days ago[-]

Fun story, Elvis Grbac was named Sexiest Athlete back in 1998.

Apparently what happened was that Rich Gannon was supposed to get the nod. Well they told the photographer to get pictures of the "Chiefs QB". Well he did, just the wrong one. Once the photos got back to new york they didn't have the heart to tell Elvis that they meant to go with Rich Gannon instead.

OK Go does it again! Check out their amazing Rube Goldberg Device in the video for "This Too Shall Pass."

enkafan 0 points1 point 15 days ago[-]

fair enough. but I know that if I saw a pop up little chumpy saying "click here for HD" I'd probably click away from an embeded blog. Others might not, but it would be a happy medium for the labels and the artists

NASA finds 600 million tons of water ice at moon's north pole

enkafan 0 points1 point 16 days ago[-]

Did they find any whalers of the moon?

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