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Comment Re:Unfortunately... (Score 4, Interesting) 190

Why would you use virtualization in such an environment?

I can sum it up in one phrase: No. Hardware. Downtime. Ever.

VMWare's solution enables you to move production servers at will without ever halting execution. Any hardware upgrade/replacement will have zero downtime. Even a hardware failure can be automatically migrated away from before it takes down the server and fixed without any down time.

Comment Re:why? (Score 3, Insightful) 677

If operator overloading is only useful for mathematical constructions, why not simply bake those things into the language and be done with it

Because there are an infinite number of possible mathematical constructions. You can't bake them all into the language; you need to provide facilities for the programmer to write his own.

Comment Re:Have I lost my mind? (Score 5, Interesting) 378

Where do babies get them from? Surely there is no interintestinal transfer from mom to womb.

The child's intestine gets colonized during childbirth. That's been discovered to be one of the problems with Caesarian section, in fact. The baby's large intestine doesn't get the proper bacterial colonization.

Comment Re:Makes USA kind of look like ancient Rome (Score 1) 297

In ancient Rome the children where legally the property of the father until they where old enough.

Actually, according strict traditional Roman law, sons were the legally the property of the father until he died. Daughters were his property until they married, at which point they became the property of their husbands' fathers. It became usual for a father to emancipate his sons when they came of age, but if he didn't, they remained his property.

Comment Re: thank god for mississippi (Score 1) 297

They still have Section 265 in their Constitution so I can't deny God and hold office in the state.

So utterly in contravention of the US Consitution as to be laughable. If it hasn't been struck down, it'll be only because no federal court has heard a challenge to it yet; the first one made will succeed.

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