Forward declarations. Which may be in the latest Effective C++ but I read that two years ago so I'm not sure, but anyway it's been in every advice about C++ (and C) programming book for about twenty years now.

Or possibly the coward was referring specifically to the fact that forward declaring enums is now legal, since C++11, when it wasn't before (though Microsoft's compilers have tolerated it for years).

We're starting to accumulate our own huge heaps of rubble. We call them the Obamacare Website and basically anything produced by PeopleSoft.

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Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Tip the fish and try your waitress.

Inappropriate use of capitalization. Always a sign of a deranged mind.

They closed the mental institutions a little prematurely. They should have waited a little longer, until the Internet was available. It's the perfect mechanism for keeping people who have trouble with reality out of circulation.

So, one stop in a bar in Reykjavík?

And what happens when that happens? I'm going to guess the result is universal and cataclysmic. We could even give it a name. Let's call it The Big Bang.

Ukraine?

I agree. The gravity is even lower, but otherwise conditions are effectively similar, since the Mars atmosphere is so thin. Ping times are a helluva lot lower too.

But we don't have as much money as Elon Musk, so no one listens to us.

So we send a lawyer first. No big deal.

Well, except for the second group arriving, only to discover the lawyer has claimed all the land and filed his claim...

Measured as a percentage of GGDP (Global Gross Domestic Product), I'd be willing to bet the pyramids cost more than establishing a Mars colony.

I wouldn't bet money on that.

Especially considering there is already a nuclear power plant tooling around on Mars right now. It's not a reactor, but it's most definitely a power plant. Of course he would prefer to have a reactor. He might not even have to found yet another company to get it going. He might be able to buy a LFTR from China before his quoted timeframe runs out.

"Two feet wide and six feet long." --Lazarus Long

That's effectively how some versions of UltraHD monitors have worked. It's called tiling, though it generally uses only one cable. Your proposed method with two cables has been done, but it's pretty rare. Timing becomes an issue.

Check out the reviews of the Asus PB287Q. Very nearly full color gamut. These ain't your daddy's TN panels.

Yeah OLED would be nice, but I'd be surprised if an UltraHD or 4K OLED display is affordable this decade.

You have that pretty backwards. UltraHD is immediately useful for a monitor, if you actually do work with a computer and aren't one of these people who think work can only be done in a maximized window. There's not much video in that resolution yet and at any distance it's not immediately obvious what resolution a TV is, but you can put all the text you want on screen at that resolution and you sit within arm's length of your monitor.

The Asus PB287Q has two HDMI and one DisplayPort and supports dual simultaneous input from any two of them. They call it Picture-by-Picture mode. They put two HD displays side by side, with black bars above and below, from two different machines. It's slightly silly, since it's not exactly convenient to switch to that mode, but it's available. It will also do Picture-In-Picture mode, displaying one input across the full screen and the other in a window up in the corner, all rescaled in software transparently to the machines outputting the signals.