I always find the statement that most of the time is spent in just a small part of the code tricky. I am not sure it is even true for many programs. I wrote some software for http://aichallenge.org/ and found that very many somewhat intensive operations accumulate, which made the python version of my software prohibitively slow compared to a C++ version I wrote, with no easy single performance bottleneck to blame.

Except Win 2000 wasn't a Tock, Maybe you meant Me?

The government may have listened to the Godfather.. Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.

I don't think cost was the issue here. It is just very inconvenient for a passenger liner. Moving around the ship will become very difficult if you have to get through a watertight door every few meters.

Also there may have been structural issues. Even if the bulkheads would have been completely watertight, the flooding of all forward compartments would have caused the ship to pitch forward, which might have caused here to break in two like she did anyway. I am no expert on early twentieth century passenger liner design, but I am sure they had their reason to design her the way they did.

Why would you assume there is an X amount of political power? That makes no sense at all. I would think the idea behind a 'United' Nations is to lessen the need for power and thus reduce X. Whether this is working out at present is a different matter.

WHOOSH

Sure, but I thought choice was a good thing! I am sure many people just want to be sheep and follow the crowd. That's OK. However, it surprises how many people on /. praise Apple for keeping things smooth and simple.
I've just loaded Cyanogenmod on my HTC legend. It's completely different from the stock ROM and I am sure this is called 'fragmentation', but I think this is fantastic and particularly that I can choose which one I want. Who cares what the masses want?

The only misplaced apostrophe I can see in the GP's post is on "want's" and that IS NOT a pluralization. If you're going to be a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM, at least do it proper SS style and not like some stupid foot soldier.

Can you post the public IP (v4) address of those machines? I have some cutting I wanna do.

Just to illustrate this

"your product name"? Is that you Linus?

Oh no, not again.

I am surprised how many people still get this wrong. Since they are the copyright holders of the work they can do whatever they want with it, period. As a copyright holder you don't license the software to yourself. That would be stupid.

That's no problem. I don't want WE7 anyway, so whatever.

You DO realize that when you shoot the telephone sanitizers out to space, you will be wiped out by a particularly virulent disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone?