I'm not suprised by the fact that Amazon carries toilet paper. But I am highly amused that amazon.com has several customer reviews of toilet paper! Now there's an outlet for all those frustrated satirical writers out there! "Much softer than the palm leaves I was using previously!"
There is always potential trade-offs between run speed and memory space. For example, you could always use a single 64-bit pointer, and save all your addresses as 32-bit or even 16-bit offsets from that pointer (requiring pointer arithmetic to access any object). Then you would use less memory, but your code would run faster.
Does Java handle datasets larger than 4GBytes, or does it run so slowly that nobody has been able to find out whether or not it handles them? In the underlying implementation, isn't EVERY object actually a pointer?
How many embedded devices are running 64-bit processors now? Offhand, I'd say this is only a problem if you have an embedded device with more than 4 GBytes of memory... in other words, it hardly sounds like a real-world problem for embedded devices. Yes, workstations and servers with 64-bit processors should probably be using 64-bit pointers.
Somehow, I don't think the economics of bringing fuel back from the moon are going to follow Moore's Law... in fact, over the last 30 years, the cost of putting things into space has gotten more expensive, not less expensive per pound.
Let's all use the recursive acronym "SCO" (for SCO Corporate Officer) as the butt of all "ethnic" jokes from now on. Here are some to get you started:
How can you tell an SCO is lying? His lips are moving!
How many SCOs does it take to change a light bulb? One. He holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.
Did you hear about the SCO that patented his own DNA, then sued his parents for infringing? The court held that he didn't have a case, since everybody knew he was a real bastard...
"helium-3... would yield about 1000 times more energy per pound than coal. And cost about 10,000 times more per pound to mine... doesn't sound like a big economic win to me.
The existence of life outside of Earth is as huge a revelation to religion as the debunking of the Earth-centric model of the solar system. Hasn't the fact that the SUN is the center of the solar system already gone a long ways towards debunking the Earth-centric model of the solar system?
Evidence that dinasaurs once roamed the earth isn't taking us towards bringing them back. What?!? Where there is evidence, there is DNA, and where there is DNA, there is a chance we can bring the creatures back! Don't you ever go to the movies?
If you locked John Grisham in a room blaring Rage Against the Machine and hooked him up to an IV drip with LSD filled in the bag and gave him some Nicotine gum to chew and no sleep for 10 days, he wouldn't come up with this mess in a million years. Sort of makes you wonder what sort of serious drugs McBride and co. were on when they came up with it, doesn't it? For the love of God, Darl -- please remember your body is a temple, and stay off the crack!
Surely that's not normal behaviour. You're new around these parts, aren't you? Could anything that SCO has done in the last six months be considered "normal behaviour"?!? Basically, their going up to everybody on the block whining "You stole my marbles!" starting with the biggest bully they could find. Now they're just waiting for everbody else on the block to bitchslap them off of the block... except that when the SEC bitchslaps them, some of them should be spending some time at ClubFed minimum security resort...
As near as I can tell, they took the millions that Sun and Microsoft gave them for Unix licenses and turned it all over to the lawyers -- neglecting the clause in their contract with Novell that stipulated 95% of any license fees should go to Novell. You'd think the lawyers would have pointed out to SCO that that was a violation of the Novell contract -- but then the lawyers wouldn't have gotten their money, would they?
Could it be because there are some things even accountants won't do? I've been wondering about this myself. My understanding of the new SEC rules is that if the quarterly reports contain false information, the person that signs them goes directly to jail, does not pass GO, and does not collect $200. How much would they have to pay you to deliberately commit fraud with a virtual certainty of eventually being caught? Maybe they can find somebody somewhere with a terminal illness that expects to be dead before the court case comes up...
And while it seems (by the current posts/threads) that the pleasures for most are spending the $1,400 on a hooker, some of us have the fortunate position to have married our hookers. Fortunate?!? Beleive me, if you marry 'em, they cost much, much more than $1400!!!
Actually, some cavemen DID go near them, which resulted in the glow-in-the-dark wooly mammoth's rapid extinction. Unfortunately, these same cavemen's wearing of glow-in-the-dark wooly mammoth skins as clothing, although making them a big hit with the women, resulted in they themselves quickly falling prey to sabretooth tigers! Don't beleive me? Prove I'm wrong!
I've got a better idea -- factor in the projected eventual disposal cost into the price of new products, then make the landfills free. This would go a long way towards making recyclable products more economically competitive, and remove the incentive to just dump stuff in the woods as people currently do.
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This would be known the "I'm not committing extortion, I'm just an idiot!" defense...
I'm not suprised by the fact that Amazon carries toilet paper. But I am highly amused that amazon.com has several customer reviews of toilet paper! Now there's an outlet for all those frustrated satirical writers out there! "Much softer than the palm leaves I was using previously!"
He was paid in AOL stock, not dollars. What are 400 million pieces of toilet paper worth?
The corporation 1) Can afford better lawyers 2) Can afford better lobbyists 3) Can afford better advertising
There is always potential trade-offs between run speed and memory space. For example, you could always use a single 64-bit pointer, and save all your addresses as 32-bit or even 16-bit offsets from that pointer (requiring pointer arithmetic to access any object). Then you would use less memory, but your code would run faster.
Does Java handle datasets larger than 4GBytes, or does it run so slowly that nobody has been able to find out whether or not it handles them? In the underlying implementation, isn't EVERY object actually a pointer?
How many embedded devices are running 64-bit processors now? Offhand, I'd say this is only a problem if you have an embedded device with more than 4 GBytes of memory... in other words, it hardly sounds like a real-world problem for embedded devices. Yes, workstations and servers with 64-bit processors should probably be using 64-bit pointers.
How well does the DirectX dedicated support library work on Linux and AmigaOS?
Does that mean that I can perfect my FPS gaming techniques by chasing stand-up comedians around with a shotgun?
Somehow, I don't think the economics of bringing fuel back from the moon are going to follow Moore's Law... in fact, over the last 30 years, the cost of putting things into space has gotten more expensive, not less expensive per pound.
How can you tell an SCO is lying? His lips are moving!
How many SCOs does it take to change a light bulb? One. He holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.
Did you hear about the SCO that patented his own DNA, then sued his parents for infringing? The court held that he didn't have a case, since everybody knew he was a real bastard...
Ok, I'm sure some of you guys can do better!
Let's put is this way... have you heard the BeeGees?
"helium-3... would yield about 1000 times more energy per pound than coal. And cost about 10,000 times more per pound to mine... doesn't sound like a big economic win to me.
Uh, maybe because NASA tried very hard to pick a landing site where they wouldn't land on a !@#$ boulder?
The existence of life outside of Earth is as huge a revelation to religion as the debunking of the Earth-centric model of the solar system. Hasn't the fact that the SUN is the center of the solar system already gone a long ways towards debunking the Earth-centric model of the solar system?
Evidence that dinasaurs once roamed the earth isn't taking us towards bringing them back. What?!? Where there is evidence, there is DNA, and where there is DNA, there is a chance we can bring the creatures back! Don't you ever go to the movies?
If you locked John Grisham in a room blaring Rage Against the Machine and hooked him up to an IV drip with LSD filled in the bag and gave him some Nicotine gum to chew and no sleep for 10 days, he wouldn't come up with this mess in a million years. Sort of makes you wonder what sort of serious drugs McBride and co. were on when they came up with it, doesn't it? For the love of God, Darl -- please remember your body is a temple, and stay off the crack!
Surely that's not normal behaviour. You're new around these parts, aren't you? Could anything that SCO has done in the last six months be considered "normal behaviour"?!? Basically, their going up to everybody on the block whining "You stole my marbles!" starting with the biggest bully they could find. Now they're just waiting for everbody else on the block to bitchslap them off of the block... except that when the SEC bitchslaps them, some of them should be spending some time at ClubFed minimum security resort...
As near as I can tell, they took the millions that Sun and Microsoft gave them for Unix licenses and turned it all over to the lawyers -- neglecting the clause in their contract with Novell that stipulated 95% of any license fees should go to Novell. You'd think the lawyers would have pointed out to SCO that that was a violation of the Novell contract -- but then the lawyers wouldn't have gotten their money, would they?
Could it be because there are some things even accountants won't do? I've been wondering about this myself. My understanding of the new SEC rules is that if the quarterly reports contain false information, the person that signs them goes directly to jail, does not pass GO, and does not collect $200. How much would they have to pay you to deliberately commit fraud with a virtual certainty of eventually being caught? Maybe they can find somebody somewhere with a terminal illness that expects to be dead before the court case comes up...
And while it seems (by the current posts/threads) that the pleasures for most are spending the $1,400 on a hooker, some of us have the fortunate position to have married our hookers. Fortunate?!? Beleive me, if you marry 'em, they cost much, much more than $1400!!!
Yeah, fine but... how sophisticated a skill set to you need to KILL PEOPLE, for pete's sake!
Laptops are much easier to steal, I'd go with a good cable lock. You would be suprised how many people can get access to your dorm room!
Actually, some cavemen DID go near them, which resulted in the glow-in-the-dark wooly mammoth's rapid extinction. Unfortunately, these same cavemen's wearing of glow-in-the-dark wooly mammoth skins as clothing, although making them a big hit with the women, resulted in they themselves quickly falling prey to sabretooth tigers! Don't beleive me? Prove I'm wrong!
I've got a better idea -- factor in the projected eventual disposal cost into the price of new products, then make the landfills free. This would go a long way towards making recyclable products more economically competitive, and remove the incentive to just dump stuff in the woods as people currently do.