Is that your impression? I find it's quite the opposite - people in the United States have become more and more distrusting of complicated machinery/software (think the Prius acceleration thing), science (think Creationism or Global Warming) and generally anything that is beyond their ability to fully comprehend without relying on what experts tell them.
I would think dogs would be right up everyone's alley. Simple, well understood, and in this case possibly even effective.
What was it an acronym for? Where did you get this information? The Perl lore that was handed down to me is that Larry just tried out words until he found something he liked. Almost called the language "Gloria", but that's his wife's name too, so he figured it would cause too much confusion.
I don't usually like to add "OMG that was funny" replies, but this one just had me laughing too hard. Suffice it to say I was lucky not to be drinking any liquid while reading your comment.
Previous/. articles confirmed it was integer overflow. Seems the global variable that counted the number of crew changes was a signed 16-bit integer, which allows for a high value of 32,767.
There followed an interesting discussion on why a counter (which should never be negative) was declared as signed instead of unsigned. An unsigned int would have allowed for 65,535 crew changes, which would have saved Comair's bacon in December.
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Is that your impression? I find it's quite the opposite - people in the United States have become more and more distrusting of complicated machinery/software (think the Prius acceleration thing), science (think Creationism or Global Warming) and generally anything that is beyond their ability to fully comprehend without relying on what experts tell them.
I would think dogs would be right up everyone's alley. Simple, well understood, and in this case possibly even effective.
What was it an acronym for? Where did you get this information? The Perl lore that was handed down to me is that Larry just tried out words until he found something he liked. Almost called the language "Gloria", but that's his wife's name too, so he figured it would cause too much confusion.
I don't usually like to add "OMG that was funny" replies, but this one just had me laughing too hard. Suffice it to say I was lucky not to be drinking any liquid while reading your comment.
Previous /. articles confirmed it was integer overflow. Seems the global variable that counted the number of crew changes was a signed 16-bit integer, which allows for a high value of 32,767.
There followed an interesting discussion on why a counter (which should never be negative) was declared as signed instead of unsigned. An unsigned int would have allowed for 65,535 crew changes, which would have saved Comair's bacon in December.
I believe he is. At least, the picture on his blog matches the picture over at perlmonks.