First off, they are starting with home / home office users. This population will incur the highest cost per computer to fix - i.e. instead of paying 1 IT guy 30/hr to fix a bunch of computers in one place, this is one-at-a-time visits to Geek Squad (ugh) or whatever which will run 50+ per computer..
This is just opening the door for future corporate lawsuits - i.e. "Clearly they have said that they were the cause of this issue and are willing to refund some of their users to the tune of X for just ONE computer. My company lost 1000 computers, I want 1000x dollars, plus lost productivity."
Well, tough...
Don't wanna play the game, go home.
Kudos for them actually, for saying 'it's my fault'
Richard Branson should be thrown directly into the goddamned volcano for being an annoying git. It's doubtful that even 2000 deg F magma could damage his ego, however.
Well, he'll probably do that by himself, by jumping from a plane and not wearing a parachute, just for the thrill...
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sun glasses and a beer hat.
I think you got it wrong there, it should be "sun hat and beer glass (full, of course)"
Well, again, no
Contamination (at least some of it) has been ruled out when the fossils were found 'inside' (pockets in) the rock
And I guess there's no recoverable DNA there.
Yes, it removed the lamp
But in the case of PS it was replaced by a multidimensional portal to another world or something like it.
Gimp replaced it with a vertical sidewalk or a tree made of concrete
So, either way PS wins \o/
You're right, thanks for clarifying :) I forgot about that...
No
2**64 = 18446744073709551616
That's 20 digits, unless you mean something else
You completely missed my point.
I'm not comparing BCD to floating point, I'm comparing BCD with other ways of encoding decimal numbers in a computer
Maybe because BCD is the worse possible way to do 'proper' decimal arithmetic, also it would absolutely be very slow.
BCD = 2 decimal digits per 8 bits (4 bits per dd). Working 'inside' the byte sucks
Instead you can put 20 decimal digits in 64bits (3.2 bits per db) and do math much more faster
Why don't any languages except COBOL and PL/I use it?
Exactly
Just add jitter
Say 'your orders will be processed with a delay varying between 0 and 5s'
The surface of the sun, IIRC is about 5700K (which is hot but meh)
Inside, it's more like a bajillion K (15.7×106 K per wikipedia)
So, yeah, it's ""cold""
Yes, except if you're playing MFS in the cockpit and you're flying the same thing you're flying on the plane...
Thank MS for delaying the adoption of EFI
Why not use QNX instead of Windows?
HAHAHAHA
Don't take me wrong, QNX is great.
Except most engineers won't even take a look at it since DOS 'works'
First off, they are starting with home / home office users. This population will incur the highest cost per computer to fix - i.e. instead of paying 1 IT guy 30/hr to fix a bunch of computers in one place, this is one-at-a-time visits to Geek Squad (ugh) or whatever which will run 50+ per computer..
This is just opening the door for future corporate lawsuits - i.e. "Clearly they have said that they were the cause of this issue and are willing to refund some of their users to the tune of X for just ONE computer. My company lost 1000 computers, I want 1000x dollars, plus lost productivity."
Well, tough...
Don't wanna play the game, go home.
Kudos for them actually, for saying 'it's my fault'
This is one post that should go all the way to eleven as in Score 11: Insightful
Richard Branson should be thrown directly into the goddamned volcano for being an annoying git. It's doubtful that even 2000 deg F magma could damage his ego, however.
Well, he'll probably do that by himself, by jumping from a plane and not wearing a parachute, just for the thrill...
No... It would be if the proportion of votes needed is greater than 2/Pi though...
The vote does not pass.
Are they going to hire Gandalf to tell then the news?!?
The 100% accurate answer is 137 and 1/3.
So this is a midget voting?!?!
As others mentioned this is impossible to photocopy (and almost impossible to read as well...)
the brown paper written in black with anti-piracy codes (remember Sim City?!)
A 32-bit architecture like ARM really has no place in Google's servers,
Why are you so sure about that??
I'm thinking that, for what Google does, it fits like a charm.
Think 4 core ARM chip (maybe) with 4GB RAM and an SSD running using 10W. Compare that with the, I dunno, 50W maybe 80W current x86 + HD server
Especially since Google doesn't care (much) about server performance rather than shoving as many servers as they can onto their datacenters.
Then Google Planet Formation, Google Accretion Disk, all the way down to the Google BigBang I assume
Really depends on your contract
Also, Microsoft is one vendor that takes the most responsibility for their products (yes, really)
Funny that one of the 'false reasons' against Open Source is liability
So are you going to sue the bastards for lost time and productivity?? You should.
Exactly
Comparing with the GBP is ridiculous. I mean, even in comparison with the USD or the CAD makes everybody look like they're starving.