I call BS on your assertion. Either that, or you can't be serious. A "few orders of magnitude" is like 4 or 5 or 6, but let's say for the sake of discussion that you mean the lowest possible value of "few," which would be 3. That's still 10^3 = 1000. And then you say "more than a few orders of magnitude," which would mean at least 10^4 = 10,000. In any case, there's no way that the dollars per square meter spent on a runway at an airport is 1000x— let alone 10,000x — more than that spent on public roads.

2560x1600.

I seem to remember feeling floppy drives weren't as reliable back in the day either... but yeah, definitely today it's crazy to use them. I wonder if they are doing any kind of RAID or other redundancy? Seems unbelievably, extremely foolish to me if they only have a single copy on a single floppy.

No Love Shack jokes?

I think the words you're looking for there are “decreasing limited quantities.”

FTFY.

There is no such thing as too closely.

You must have poor eyesight. The difference is actually profound.

I agree with you, but I have a nit to pick:

You wrote "512kiB". This is incorrect. It should be "512KiB". Although "k" is the prefix for "kilo-", there is nothing such as an "iB", so the use of "k" is inappropriate here. Note that the prefix "Ki" is for "kibi-" and it applies here to "B" for "bytes."

Seriously, this was one of the most interesting comments I've ever read here on Slashdot. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

Wait. Wait wait wait. You're saying $10 per Gigabyte overage charges???

Ten dollars per gigabyte?

What godawful ISP charges THAT? And how do you self-meter?

Hahah, fair enough. :)

Mark Hamill was 26. Carrie Fisher was 20.

The semicolon in English is perfectly valid as an end-of-statement punctuator; English has many ways to separate thoughts.

Egad, you are seriously suggesting the use of ';' for accessing members of a structure? Or do you not mean swap the two?

This might be a clue that their brain isn't suited for programming. It's not a difficult concept that different languages use different punctuation, especially in different contexts. A '.' character in C can be a radix point in a number, a structure member accessor, or a component separator of a filename, e.g., stdio.h. A person needs to be able to understand this extremely basic concept from the get-go or they are not cut out for programming, plain and simple. It shouldn't matter what symbols are used. Now if you're talking 5-year-olds, then ok, sure, maybe ';' is confusing. But if it confuses an 18-year-old CS student, well, ... they should probably be flipping burgers instead.