As in, didn't support the same number of business processes. I'm not sure if the application ever got finished as I've since gone to greener pastures.

See, now I know you're lying. You could have said three years and maybe you could have fooled some people. But you had to go with a completely unbelievable 18 months. Ridiculous! Preposterous! Unpossible!

On a more serious note, I've witnessed a SAP implementation as a replacement of an in-house developed application. Original development took two years, SAP took four years. And after those four years the application still didn't have all the functionality of the original app. You might take a guess at the costs involved, but I assure you that it was a lot higher than that. Guess again and you're still not thinking in the same ballpark.

SAP, that name still sends shivers up my spine.

Same here. I don't fly to the US and I won't fly over the US anymore because of the atrocious border shenanigans.

Instead I'll spend my money in places where they seem to be pleased to have me as their guest. Best of luck with your tanking (tanked?) economy, btw.

So basically you're saying that assembler is faster than C? Or am I missing your point?

Cocaine is better for your health than a case of Red Bull anyways.

After extensive testing to find a durable DVD-RW I can honestly say that none of the ones I tested was completely readable after two years in storage. All had defects to some extend. Most surprising find was that there was no correlation between price and low error count. At all.

If you have experience with a brand that lasts for a lot longer I'd really appreciate to hear about it.

Why not? You can saturate any commercial network link with a 100 MHz Pentium machine easily.

If you do some heavy scripting on the machine, it might cave a bit. But if your quad-core machine doesn't hold up, then indeed You're Doing It Wrong.

I'm sure nobody will call you on this one. It's obvious C has a lot of drawbacks compared to more modern languages. But for raw performance there isn't much that can keep up. I'm even willing to up the ante by saying that the solution in C will be at least twice as fast as the other competitor. And that is a conservative estimate.

It brings the 'P' to the ISS...

He probably couldn't get the supernova to explode on time to provide decent fill-in light. And then there is the matter that the Canon 5D doesn't have exposure setting for one-trillionth of a second.

Also, you can't patent software in Europe

Not yet, but they are working on it. They tried to snuck it through by hiding it in the amendments of an agricultural bill. Luckily Poland kept watch and rose a stink about it.

It's not over. There is too much money to be gained for that.

Cool! Thanks!

And why did those crusades start? Not because the middle east was such a warm and welcomy paradise, for sure.

Oh, by the way, he wasn't Arab either. He was Persian and therefore Zoroastrian, not Muslim.

You are mistaken. Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi wrote (or rather translated from Indian texts) his book al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wa'l-muqabala. From the title of this book we still got the word "algebra".

Also, the oft heard claim that the West uses Arabic numerals is incorrect. These numerals also came from India.