Yeah, seriously. Each of those few hundred warehouses will need to stock a large variety of products or same-day delivery doesn't work so well. Once you go that route, you're basically just a brick-and-mortar business where you go to the customer instead of the other way around.

I'm pretty sure Amazon has just come to the conclusion that the benefits of having optimally-placed distribution locations far outweigh having to collect the taxes. Plus, I'm sure that most state governments are WAY more friendly (wink wink) if you are tossing a few million dollars in their direction every 3 months.

Ah, but is he sailing on a starboard tack or a port tack? And should he tack or jibe the boat? And should he attach the sheets to the tack or the clew of the sail?

The C standard requires the compiler initialize all stack-allocated memory to zero. color[0] and color[1] are exactly as the OP specified. To be safe, they should indeed be initialized to zero. In professional practice, I always memset everything I allocate to 0 for the entire block of memory I have allocated, and then initialize individual members of structures to whatever their default value should be.

Well, that was embarrassing. Wait, no.

I intended this to be a challenge.

Fill in the blanks.

Stupid slash code.

OK:

typedef struct button {
    long long color[3];
    void (*onClick)(int);
} Button;

Button okay;
Button cancel;
okay.onClick =
cancel.onClick =
okay.color[2] = 0xffffffff;
cancel.color[2] = 0xffffffff;

The C version is probably smaller and faster than your version.

You do not have to be a citizen to work in the US. There are all sorts of visas that allow non-US citizens to work in the US, and then there is NAFTA - a lesser-known section of that treaty allows citizens of Mexico, Canada and the US to work in any of the three countries for any professional occupation on a multi-page list you can find on the State Department website.

This exact topic recently came up at a local Inn of Court, and after a bit of discussion, the consensus among the judges and attorneys present was that the company would be liable for all the stupid things the employee did with that social network account.

There is a real reason companies typically have one single spokesman and many have a PR department.

It's pretty amazing that someone can come to this conclusion based on a comparison of the output files. Really?

The iPad 2 has outstanding graphics performance compared to other tablets despite the graphics chip having similar or less processing power. They control both the hardware and software, allowing them to optimize the hell out of it.

In this case, Apple controls the file format, the display software, AND the display hardware. And your conclusion is that Apple deliberately redesigned and implemented features to make sure it was incompatible with industry standards? How about a performance comparison? Until proven otherwise, this is just Apple optimizing the hell out of it to get maximum performance on the iPad.

You know, being the anti-fanboy is just as bad as being the fanboy.

You completely forgot the one that actually does it the best - Nordstrom. And they do online sales right as well. If you order something online it is shipped from the closest B & M store that has it in stock. No separate supply chain or distribution system - it is one company. Free shipping, free returns, etc.

They also bring out exclusive products - during their half-yearly sale for whichever gender you are shopping for. Except again, they do it right. For example, during the men's sale, you can a pair of Allen Edmunds made-in-the-USA shoes for around $200 or so. They'll last forever, look good forever, and are designed to be resoled when the time comes. They're exclusive to Nordstrom but that's a benefit for Nordstrom AND the customer.

Amazon produces a Kindle app for almost every platform, which ensures that the Kindle eBook marketplace is dominant. But buying an actual Kindle device limits you to the Kindle eBook marketplace.

The Kindle App is the single app I use most on my iPad (but far from the most used app as I am not the only user), but it is far easier to get an epub or PDF onto an iPad (and into the Apple iBooks) than it is to do the same on a Kindle device. I can get on to Safari Books Online (O'Reilly's eBook website) through my employer's proxy server. My iPad is an amazing programming partner - the best reference source I have ever had. It is worth the extra money to have all of those extra book sources. (I think Android tables can do this as well, I'm arguing against the Kindle and not specifically FOR the iPad)

Just pay the extra money. It is worth it.

Yes, they could hire 11,000 US workers to test every single part - if Congress would increase the defense budget.

Windows 8 will be great - for the vast majority of people who use it.

Business users will take so long to migrate that Windows 9 will be out by the time they get there. My office hopes to complete the migration from XP to Windows 7 early next year.

Apple has seen steady sales growth for their Mac lineup. A large number of these sales go to people switching.

Tablet and other mobile devices continue to take market share, especially from low-end PCs. My sister barely touches her desktop computer now that she has an Android smartphone.

Linux on the desktop continues to grow - slowly, yes. But it is growing, anecdotally from people that want an OS upgrade but don't want to buy a retail copy of Windows (because of the cost, nothing else).

The vast majority of Windows 8 users will be new or inexperienced computer users. And it will be great for them. I think Microsoft is doing a very good job on this. The developer preview they put out needs a lot of refinement, but I believe it will get there.

As an aside, I think that the new application management concepts are going to end up being very successful. Mainstream developers got their first taste with Android and iOS, OS X Lion has them, and now Windows 8 will as well. Linux should not ignore this. The system knows far more about its current conditions than an application ever could and can really benefit from shutting down and restarting applications without the user realizing if the conditions are right for it.

The United States is prohibited by federal law from providing support to UN groups if that group has member states which are not recognized by the full United Nations body. President Obama warned Sarkozy and the Palestinians to knock it off before the United States is forced to stop providing funds to UN groups that really matter like the International Atomic Energy Agency. You know, the people trying to keep Iran from getting The Bomb.

To their credit, Sarkozy and the Palestinians now understand the implications and have agreed to stop.

Even simpler is iOS 5. If you are sending a message to another person that has iOS 5, it is routed over a data connection through Apple's messaging servers and is free.

Now of course you now have to trust Apple instead of your phone company. But... It's free and has no advertising.

Was the rocket outside the environment when the front fell off?