The Titanic == Itanium

*cough* Microsoft .net

Each letter in an english word only stores one bit worth of data on average.

see: http://www.maximumcompression....

And moist anjone can eaiily correc simxle errors automaxically while reeding in there heads.

I'm sure mistakes were made while carving stone tablets, and they just said 'Fuck it, it's fine.'

I was at a Pho shop the other day, with etched glass windows reading 'NODDLE SOUP' (in Comic Sans...)

First read as "Flesh eating spiders"

all the 'nope' in the world isn't enough.

And Prison inmate are considered paragons of morality?

Talk about moving the goalposts...

My point was, I've heard of 'upstate New York' without ever coming within 1000 miles of it. But no one here, that I know of, ever called any part of Washington 'upstate', so it's a meaningless description.

I've lived in Washington 40 years, and I'm never heard of a town/county named 'upstate'.

... I was following until you randomly brought 9/11 into it, thereby showing you are a nutjob.

He explains it by not taking his anti-psychotic medication.

Back when I did tech support for a lightweight Mac database product, they didn't use Parity (much less ECC) RAM.

I had a customer call in because students were continually getting corrupted databases on their assignments.

over the course of several phone calls, we narrowed it down to only happening in 1 of 3 labs.

After excluding anything high-energy (like a physics lab) in the building, I got the customer to reveal that they were constructing a new building next door, and the construction power tools were running off the same circuits as the computer lab...

They got the construction workers to use a different source of power, and the corruption problems disappeared.

These are mostly new functions added for Windows 8, they don't exist in the Windows 7 SDK.

If you wrote your programs to use them, they wouldn't work on 7, only 8, which everyone seems to hate.

If MS added them to a patch for 7, there would then be 2 fragmented versions of Windows 7, so if a customer calls you asking if your software works on Windows 7, you would have to ask if they have installed KB######, and they would say 'I don't know.', or they might lie and say yes, or no, and you'll have to walk them through checking installed Windows updates...

And you can measure inefficiency by measuring loss.

How can you prove the leech on you neck is sucking blood?, just because it gets fat and swollen with red juice doesn't mean it's draining the blood from your system, in fact, it's stimulating the production of more blood!

  - you.

I've thought for a while there should be 2 classes of Corporation.

1) Does real business (Manufacturing, Retailing, Services...); cannot own any part of other corporations.

2) Owns parts of type 1's; cannot do other business aside from managing shares etc. (mutual funds/investment collectives/trust funds...)

No complex ownership webs allowed. Two layers at most.

It's just a more complicated version of Superman III