Those of us that live in northern climates above 600 feet and will see our land values skyrocket.... thank the rest of you.

Uneducated people like you are what cause others to not learn.

I really suggest you buy books and learn, you would be very surprised at how simple modern medicine really is.

I am betting you cant even sew your own stitches.

Maybe that could account for a few cases, but there were other issues at least some researchers didn't think would be solved so quickly either. In the link I provided (unfortunately, the original article isn't found, just the summary), a researcher in 2002 was claiming that CMOS would end up at 45 nm and halt there because of the issues with thermal noise. I also remember these types of predictions being made by researches at Intel as well.

Look, I'll I'm saying is that *every* time so far the prediction was made, it's turned out that manufacturers figured out how to push the envelop a little further. Eventually, it's got to end at some point, but so far the scientists and researchers manage to surprise us each time. It's hard to predict when or how the next breakthrough will occur, because by nature, it's something that no one has though of yet.

Pundits have been saying that at least since 90nm, you know. Then 65, and again at 45, 32, 33, and now at 14.

Really? We in countries with single payer are clamouring for a system more like America's? That's fresh. America's healthcare system is a boogieman concept here, the sort of thing that one scares voters with - "my opponent's policies will make out healthcare system end up like America's!" Even conservative Americaphiles are usually scared of it.

And if he was to prescribe a standard antibiotic, you can buy them yourself at a pet supply.
The same antibiotics used for fish are the same that you are given. Exactly the same, just different labels and no prescription required.

Hospital bills are null and void if they are not easily read and understood by someone with a 10th grade education. If they are unable or unwilling to do a full explanation then the bill is invalid and does not have to be paid and can not be reported to credit reporting or sold to collections.

Maybe that will get the morons running hospitals off their asses.

Ya hey dere, Dem hosers sure like their Hitler policies eh?

Yup, if it wasn't Microsoft, all kinds of other companies could have dominated the desktop market. IBM (OS/2), Quarterdeck (DESQview/X), Apple (Mac OS), NeXT (NeXT), any number of *nix companies (X11), and others.

Microsoft got big because they got the consumers interested, and questionable deals with vendors.

Plenty of people only know the tunnel-vision version of computer history and they believe Microsoft is it. They either don't remember (or are too young to have seen) software boxes (ahh, the good ol' days) had logos to indicate which OS they worked on so you could pick the right one.

...until they get their personal data stolen because of a security flaw in the OS, which of course was long patched in later version of Android.

Saying "We're sure he had..." without evidence is not evidence. They have to have the evidence that he actually *did* have what is claimed.

That's the hard part. They have to gather the evidence to get the conviction. Without evidence, they can't get a conviction. At least if you have a competent attorney. If you have a crappy one, you'll get the 5 years because they talked you into taking a pre-trial plea agreement. That's how innocent people go to jail.

I've never bought that argument. Comments simply need to be properly maintained along with the code. If you're not updating the comments when you change the code, you're doing a half-assed job.

Besides, my take is that comments are generally most useful when they explain *what* you're attempt to do rather than *how* exactly you're doing it, and that tends to change far less frequently. The only exception to that general rule is when the code is particularly complex or tricky, and at that point, you should be writing comments in paragraphs.

Interesting, thanks for the response. I suppose it makes some amount of sense, because for every possible chip out there, it generally has a C/C++ compiler that supports it. And it's not surprising that you'd tend to find a lot more people well-versed in C or C++.

C++ gets a lot of hate (some deserved, some not), but you can actually use it in such a way that makes it very difficult for programmers to make silly mistakes like clobbering raw memory, and all in a way that requires little or no overhead beyond equivalent C code. I think that's part of why it's so popular in game development (my particular field).

And as you indicated, an effective strategy is to find a subset of the language that works well for your project and stick to that.

You don't need a "friend" inside Microsoft to actually try out the beta, you know. Anyone can sign up, download it, and use it. Millions of people are using it right now, and we've heard NOTHING about such stability problems. Buy all the popcorn you like. Windows 10 may have it's faults, but instability is not going to be one of them.

In the current Windows 10 beta, the only option you appear to have under the setting Choose How Updates Are Installed is "Automatic" and "Notify to schedule restart". It appears you have no choice but to get the patches as they're released, with the only exception being if you indicate you're on a metered connection (possibly useful loophole there).

I'll admit, I was a bit surprised by this as well. I understand the logic of pushing patches out as soon as they're ready to home users. "Patch Tuesday" was done entirely for the convenience of corporate users, not home users, but it has the downside of potentially delaying critical patches for many weeks that could otherwise be deployed much sooner. Even so, I'd prefer to see an option to allow home users to actually *install* the patches at their own leisure like with previous versions of Windows.