Ok, so you've got a dog. How do you use it to kill your neghbor?

I know people don't RTFA, but apparently nobody RTFP(osts) either. we've got, what, 30 identical wrong answers (north pole only), 30 people who don't understand the difference between 1 mile from the South pole and 1mile+ X/pi ?

Just for that: imagine a Beowulf cluster of starting points in the Southern Hemisphere...

Oh yeah? If he's a monotheism how come there's ten of him? :-)

Granted, for many users, speed matters. But, here are some other concerns.

1) The Registry File. Enough said.
2) Under OS X, open any kind of file in any kind of editor. Go back to the Finder window, rename the file, move it to a different folder no problem. Can't be done under Windows. Half the time, even after you close the file (not the editor app), the app fails to 'release' the lock and you STILL can't rename the file.
3) None of Microsoft's pseudo-shell implementations come close to bash/csh/ksh in useability.

For most users, most of the time spent on a computer is in dealing with the UI/GUI/UX (whatever you want to call it). That's what matters; raw speed of calculation is the primary need of a rather small subset of users (who probably buy time on a cluster node :-) )

I find it far easier and more pleasant to take the train from Boston. Presumably the same holds for folks from Philly.

I'd also like to see more business travellers learn to use video conferencing instead of blowing off a few gigajoules on the theory that face-to-face is the only acceptable way to hold a meeting.

hmmm.... solving fizzbuzz....
( code is in the R language BTW)

fbfun1 <- function(xfoo) {
xfoo<-1:xfoo
fbfoo <- 1+(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,3)))*(as.logical(mod(xfoo,5))) + 2*(as.logical(mod(xfoo,3)))*(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,5)))+3*(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,3)))*(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,5)))
 
fbbar <- unlist(lapply(fbfoo, function(x) switch(x,0,'fizz','buzz','fizzbuzz')))
return(fbbar)
}
 
fbfun3 <- function(xfoo) {
xfoo<-1:xfoo
fbfoo <- 1+(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,3)))*(as.logical(mod(xfoo,5))) + 2*(as.logical(mod(xfoo,3)))*(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,5)))+3*(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,3)))*(!as.logical(mod(xfoo,5)))
fbtab<-cbind(1:4,c('','fizz','buzz','fizzbuzz'))
fbbar <- fbtab[fbfoo,2]
return(fbbar)
}
 
fbfun4 <- function(xfoo) {
fiz<- rep(c('','','fizz'),length.out=xfoo)
buz<-rep(c('','','','','buzz'),length.out=xfoo)
fbbar <- unlist(lapply(1:xfoo, function(j)paste(fiz[j],buz[j]) ) )
return(fbbar)
}
 
# or completely sleazy:
fbfun5 <- function(xfoo) {
fiz<- rep(c('','','fizz','','buzz','fizz','','','fizz','buzz','','fizz','','','fizzbuzz'),length.out=xfoo)
return(fiz)
}

An awful lot of scientists (at least us old guys) like Asimov & Heinlein and various other scifi authors who gave us all sorts of words which have graduated to general useage. (not to mention, say "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor" and "reverse the polarity")

OTOH, I shudder to think that maybe in 50 years someone will write "all scientists love GoT and name things after the characters."

Quite the opposite reaction to what most of our drills have. //smirk

Dunno... what's that in units of Beowolf Clusters? (misspelling intentional)

They were a civilisation of dentists, and they kept their trove of Mercury around 'cause it's used in fabbing the amalgalm for fillings.

Or eleven years in Twelveworth,
or five to ten in Woolworth.

Hey, someone had to quote it!

Seems to me that, at least on /. , it needs to be called "Thrist."

In a post about half a page down from this article, Norway is going to kill off FM in favor of digital (DAB) as the only broadcast method.

So there you are.

You guys are missing the obvious solution: make like the Japanese and their artificial islands. Fill in the Bering Strait and just build a paved road on top of the ridgeline you just created between SIberia and AK.

WCPGW?

One good reason to discourage the pasive voice is that it leads the reader to believe things "just happened," rather than emphasizing the causative agent.

"War broke out" vs "A small band of vocal rabble chose to separate from England rather than pay excessive tax on tea"