It's not that simple. You can't use the full 31 bits per character, and therefore you can't use base-2 shifting. You can use *almost* 31 bits, but since the first 1114112 characters (the valid Unicode characters) are unavailable for use, you really only get ~30.99925 bits per character.
I don't have mod points right now, but if I did, I would mod the parent up.
I have seen so many of my friends over the years (I'm 41 and in a no-children relationship) have to give up (or greatly reduce their participation in) hobbies in order to devote time to their kids/family. It's depressing. Every one of them says, "Yeah, kids changed my life, and I had to make sacrifices, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
That's fine for them, but it's not for me. No kids for me. I think children are great...as long as they're someone else's problem. I want to be able to live my life the way I want to, not be chained down to kids.
> Here in the U.S., customers can choose whether they want to get screwed by Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, AT&T, or Comcast. Isn't unregulated capitalism great?!
In Soviet Russia, phone company gets screwed by you!
> Then again, I have fond memories of Mega Lo Mania, the early days of
> Civ, Risk and what not to at least retain some modicum of hope for Spore.
> I mean, YOU GET TO OBLITERATE PLANETS!:P
The ability to obliterate a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
> A price was agreed upon by both parties. If anyone is not being moral it's the person at Amazon who has decided to change the terms of the deal after the transaction has been completed.
"I am altering the deal. Pray that I do not alter it any further."
This is hilarious, I am quite literally watching the download speed of the video on their page dwindle down to nearly nothing. Ah, the power of the SlashDot effect.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a website is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
I've seen code that lies. This occurs when the programmer documents his intention correctly in the comments, but writes the code incorrectly.
If there is a discrepancy between the code and the comments, and it is the code that ends up changing when the discrepancy is discovered, then the code was lying, and the comment was telling the truth.
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The dog did it.
That sounds about right to me. I calculate 13.88 minutes. I get 30 MBytes/sec over USB2 to a Western Digital pocket drive from the new 2010 Mac Mini.
It's not that simple. You can't use the full 31 bits per character, and therefore you can't use base-2 shifting. You can use *almost* 31 bits, but since the first 1114112 characters (the valid Unicode characters) are unavailable for use, you really only get ~30.99925 bits per character.
That's great! I wrote a Wii emulator on the Apple //e back in 1983. Now I can run that again!
> Ouch, my eyeball!
Do not look into C# with remaining eye.
10K of water ought to be enough for anybody.
> In the first 8 years of the 21st century I have witnessed [...]
Well, actually, the first 8 years of the 21st Century aren't over yet. In eight months they will be, however.
I don't have mod points right now, but if I did, I would mod the parent up.
I have seen so many of my friends over the years (I'm 41 and in a no-children relationship) have to give up (or greatly reduce their participation in) hobbies in order to devote time to their kids/family. It's depressing. Every one of them says, "Yeah, kids changed my life, and I had to make sacrifices, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
That's fine for them, but it's not for me. No kids for me. I think children are great...as long as they're someone else's problem. I want to be able to live my life the way I want to, not be chained down to kids.
> Yeah, it's a fast CPU.
You've never heard of the Power6? It's the chip that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. She's fast enough for you, old man.
> And it gets faster if you have smaller hands. Or if you watch your hands move by at close to the speed of light.
She'll make point five past light speed.
Well, if I eat a couple of bean burritos, I can usually generate that much wind easily.
Unfortunately, it's seldom silent or cool. :-/
A shoe maker from Texas gets quoted in the New York Times about computer interfaces, and I can't even get quoted in the local newspaper.
So the gas cloud originated from Uranus?
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> Here in the U.S., customers can choose whether they want to get screwed by Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, AT&T, or Comcast. Isn't unregulated capitalism great?!
In Soviet Russia, phone company gets screwed by you!
> Then again, I have fond memories of Mega Lo Mania, the early days of :P
> Civ, Risk and what not to at least retain some modicum of hope for Spore.
> I mean, YOU GET TO OBLITERATE PLANETS!
The ability to obliterate a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
> Often boredom leads to half finsihed blog entries, projects and p
Boredom leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering!
> that's impossible even for an 8 core machine.
I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my 8-core machine back home. They're not much bigger than 2 meters.
> A price was agreed upon by both parties. If anyone is not being moral it's the person at Amazon who has decided to change the terms of the deal after the transaction has been completed.
"I am altering the deal. Pray that I do not alter it any further."
This is hilarious, I am quite literally watching the download speed of the video on their page dwindle down to nearly nothing. Ah, the power of the SlashDot effect.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a website is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
I was once brought in to fix an application that randomly picked people to pee in a bottle, and...
Hey, can I get a copy of that code?
Bah. Comments lie. Code never lies.
I've seen code that lies. This occurs when the programmer documents his intention correctly in the comments, but writes the code incorrectly.
If there is a discrepancy between the code and the comments, and it is the code that ends up changing when the discrepancy is discovered, then the code was lying, and the comment was telling the truth.
So how many dumps does it take to fill up the crapper tank?
Man, due to budget cuts, I'd hate to be the one guy whose job that is.
"Hang in there, you only have 17 craps to go. Here, have another burrito."
Did anyone else find it extremely funny to see such flagrant sarcasm in this news.com.com headline?
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FUDcon is where all the dogs get together and lure all the cats into clothes dryers with clever signage.