a googolplex is 10^googol (if you wrote this down in its expanded form, the paper would not fit into the volume of the solar system)
Well... a googol is greater than most estimates of the number of particles in the universe (around 10^86 from memory), so even if you took each elemental particle to be a zero, you still couldn't write a googolplex using the entire universe as a whiteboard!
A few years ago, I trademarked the word 'Fucktard'. Clearly this guy is infringing on my legal rights by continually and wantonly being a Fucktard Royale with Cheese.
Yep, it's got four SCSI hard drives in a RAID 0+1 configuration and is water-cooled. However, it doesn't come with a screen (although you can get a good package deal if you buy 2 30" Apple Cinema displays with it).
Comments give variables / methods / objects context.
intYear
is a reasonable choice of name for an integer variable denoting a year, but the year of what???
When code is first being written, the context is in the coder's head and everything is crystal clear and obvious. However, remove that immediate knowledge of the code, and the name intYear becomes far less descriptive.
Short of using 80 character variable names and destroying readability, you need comments to provide context so that the meaning of the value stored in the variable requires no interpretation. The same applies to methods, objects, etc.
I believe these displays have the "consume power only on change" property you're talking about. They are currently under research, but they have been implemented for small-scale devices (i.e. MP3 players).
I work for the Australian arm of a very large Indian IT company and I can confirm that English is by far the most common language used in IT outsourcing companies. Remember that English is an official language of India.
I wonder how successful Indian outsourcing would have been had the English had not set up a colony and left their language there.
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a googolplex is 10^googol (if you wrote this down in its expanded form, the paper would not fit into the volume of the solar system)
Well... a googol is greater than most estimates of the number of particles in the universe (around 10^86 from memory), so even if you took each elemental particle to be a zero, you still couldn't write a googolplex using the entire universe as a whiteboard!
Apparently, nobody's picked up that domain.
Or the sarcasm.
I still can't reach www.flakyhost.com!
A few years ago, I trademarked the word 'Fucktard'. Clearly this guy is infringing on my legal rights by continually and wantonly being a Fucktard Royale with Cheese.
There is a PowerPod?
Yep, it's got four SCSI hard drives in a RAID 0+1 configuration and is water-cooled. However, it doesn't come with a screen (although you can get a good package deal if you buy 2 30" Apple Cinema displays with it).
is a reasonable choice of name for an integer variable denoting a year, but the year of what???
When code is first being written, the context is in the coder's head and everything is crystal clear and obvious. However, remove that immediate knowledge of the code, and the name intYear becomes far less descriptive.
Short of using 80 character variable names and destroying readability, you need comments to provide context so that the meaning of the value stored in the variable requires no interpretation. The same applies to methods, objects, etc.
Organic Light Emitting Diodes
I believe these displays have the "consume power only on change" property you're talking about. They are currently under research, but they have been implemented for small-scale devices (i.e. MP3 players).
I work for the Australian arm of a very large Indian IT company and I can confirm that English is by far the most common language used in IT outsourcing companies. Remember that English is an official language of India.
I wonder how successful Indian outsourcing would have been had the English had not set up a colony and left their language there.
Now, be fair... you can't really blame WinFS for that