You are joking? Samantha and Jason each have had the best segments in recent years with Jason going to Iran, India, and Russia. To the extent he talked with Gorbachev! They would be terrific co-anchors and both have balls of steel.

FYI, most of his shows are in full on youtube.

From the trailers it looks like we'll see in the new Avengers. But the answer will be Iron Man in the Hulkbuster suit. As for the others, the whole premise is that Spider-Man is like a spider and can pick up MANY times his own weight, so I think you are underestimating his chances against the others. He may be scrawny but I always imaged him being able to go toe-to-toe with the Hulk by dropping a building on him or something.

Why not? There ARE researchers looking at these issues because it's increasingly well-known that parasites can influence their host's behaviors.

That's partly the point, apparently a big part of the differences in digestive systems is the balances and type of gut bacteria we have.

I'm confused, are you talking about the GG or the anti-GG people? Maybe that's implicitly your point and this is just a good example of one of those first world problems.

Fair enough, you and GP make some interesting points regarding a conversation but ACs can sometimes make some interesting standalone points/posts IMO (that doesn't necessarily warrant a reply though). I was just curious...

My understanding is their market capitalization or whatever tanked after Elop and, although a well-known brand, they were really struggling -- Elop just buried the dagger and shamelessly sold them out (figuratively and literally). Your advice is valid though, I think smaller companies have never benefit long-term from a close partnership with MS.

Couldn't remember and google was no help. Let me think more about the context I read it...

why not? anyone can register a /. account and there are plenty of sockpuppets around here.

Haha, cry us a river Microsoft. I'm all for an open platform but this investment is just step 1 of their embrace, extend, extinguish operating procedure. What's that quote about how smaller companies should NEVER work with MS?

I said that as well ("Both sets look synonymous"), but if your non-programmer was told 22 div 3 and 22/3 each did different things, while 22/3 and 22/3.0 did analogously different things, which set would they correctly understand?

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying at the beginning about a "bad" compiler because the outcome should be 7.333333333333333 as expected. If you meant, (int)22 / (int)3 then that makes more sense that you would get 7 because of truncation. Especially if for some bizarre reason the 3.0 was immediately treated as an int (because of the 22?) and you got 7 unexpectedly. Erring on the side of int->floats seems far less dangerous than float->int conversion in math operations because only an experienced programmer would even want/expect a 7.

Wow, I hope you're not suggesting 22 div 3 vs. 22/3 is more intuitive to a novice for what it does compared to 22/3 and 22/3.0! Both sets look synonymous but if someone told you/me that the first and second of each were different I think the second set is MUCH more clear. **HINT: there's a decimal point in the second set, so it would be natural to assume the return value would have one as well -- no such luck on the first set**

Step 1: Embrace Step 2: Extend. Step 3: Extinguish. Step 4: Profit! I think this brings us between 2 and 3, which is not the greatest news for open source R.