I don't see what the risk is. Let's say you read through the entire Windows source code. Then let's say that, someday, you code something using code similar to that you saw. First, what are the odds that someone who is familiar enough with the Windows source code to recognize a fragment of similar code in someone else's work is going to even see your code? Second, even if that were to happen, I don't think even Microsoft is employing telepaths yet. There'd be no way to prove that your code was influenced by Microsoft's, unless the code was copied verbatim, and even then, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that two programmers would decide to program similar features in the same way.
That's the Planck length, named after Max Planck, one of the pioneers in quantum physics. There are also other units, such as the Planck time, which is the amount of time it takes light to travel the Planck length, and the Planck energy, which is the amount of power generated when you stick electrodes in John Ashcroft's ears.
I was a ride attendant at an amusment park and one day a group of people decided to set themselves on fire while in line for the ride I was running. (this was during a religous event that was happening in the park that week, and is the busiest week in the park)
Religious nuts setting themselves on fire? I thought this was supposed to be the worst working environments?
  ÂIf that's the case, then why are we building all these research facilities? Just send a guy up in a hot air balloon with a microscope and a thermometer and be done with it.
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I don't see what the risk is. Let's say you read through the entire Windows source code. Then let's say that, someday, you code something using code similar to that you saw. First, what are the odds that someone who is familiar enough with the Windows source code to recognize a fragment of similar code in someone else's work is going to even see your code? Second, even if that were to happen, I don't think even Microsoft is employing telepaths yet. There'd be no way to prove that your code was influenced by Microsoft's, unless the code was copied verbatim, and even then, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that two programmers would decide to program similar features in the same way.
That's the Planck length, named after Max Planck, one of the pioneers in quantum physics. There are also other units, such as the Planck time, which is the amount of time it takes light to travel the Planck length, and the Planck energy, which is the amount of power generated when you stick electrodes in John Ashcroft's ears.
So, the scientists ran out of ideas for prefixes and just started naming them after the Marx brothers?
I was a ride attendant at an amusment park and one day a group of people decided to set themselves on fire while in line for the ride I was running. (this was during a religous event that was happening in the park that week, and is the busiest week in the park)
Religious nuts setting themselves on fire? I thought this was supposed to be the worst working environments?
Yeah, well, atleast you didn't have to run Windows Me.
changing anything major now could spell catastrophy
The jokes just write themselves around here...
It's our own fault, I suppose. I mean, we're the ones who've been telling them they can take their music and shove it up their ass.
  ÂNot to pick nits, but shouldn't this be called MEER?
  ÂIf that's the case, then why are we building all these research facilities? Just send a guy up in a hot air balloon with a microscope and a thermometer and be done with it.