> It won't kill the krill dude. If 10 billion gallons leak, each gallon of oil will have about 30,000 gallons of seawater to mix with (that is assuming that none of the 10 billion gallons degrades over time).

Sure, 30000 to 1 is low. Next time you take a bath (~300 liters), spill 1cl of gasoil in it (1 centimeter of the bottom of a small glass). Then take you bath, and come to post here about the results again.

What kind of checking did YOU do ? Posted on slashdot, read from some blog, or seen on the interwebs is not fact checking.

> that word becomes mainstream. people make languages, and internet is people.

So is solyent green.

Best part of the article:

"In order to beat it, Little Gray killed 390,895 creatures, dealt 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests, raided 405 dungeons and hugged 11 players. We think he had sex zero times."

Upgrading to x64 would probably be darwin award worthly...

You don't know anything about the second system syndrome, do you ?

> Why do we see questions like this so often? Why aren't people going to existing services with guaranteed availability that let you store a generic blob? Pass the buck -- they're probably going to do it better anyway.

Yes, right. They are going to do it by the cheaper way: they will not protect your data, as it is more effective way for such business it to give the better return to shareholders and just go under if they loose all customer data.

Guess why there is are regulations for insurances, and there is none for data retention services.

How does dividing 1TB by 200K gives you the number of pages needed for 2TB ? What exactly are you doing for a living ?

> Hell, the Mac software community used to point out "Cocoa!!" as a feature. And got pissy with me when I told them that Cocoa isn't a feature, it's an implementation detail and your users don't give a flying crap.

Try to move the window of a busy carbon app, and come back to talk to me, young padawan...

> The most interesting thing about that was that the 'auto parallelization' code used 8 cores to get slightly more than 50% more performance than it got with one core

No, we don't know that as there was no benchmark of sun studio with as single core (if I read correctly). We don't know how much //ization gave to sun studio. We just know that "auto-8" core's sunstudio == 2* single core gcc.