Just ask him to check it out of the source code repository? You have one don't you :-)? If your boss can figure out how to do that, make the changes, do UT and commit the code in, I'd say go for it.

> hmm... did you miss the part where the guy also bitched that interpreted languages are "too slow"?

You know "the guy", happens to be Rob Pike, _the_ Rob Pike, co-author of the "Unix Programming Environment" classic? Also the "Practice of Programming" book and the co-creator of UTF-8. He also wrote one of the first C style guides: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html. I'd say he knows a thing or two about programming languages; especially C.

This is what I could find after a few minutes of googling.

http://www.widexindia.com/Products/Widex%20hearing%20aids/Price%20lists.aspx

For US$ conversion, divide by 50. So approx $200 for the cheapest one but only two channels. The most expensive ones run to $3000.

Ganesan

OMiGo might've been a better name :-).

Which scientist has admitted that it was speculation and not supported by formal research.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Himalayan-melting-by-2035-Scientists-just-assumed-so/articleshow/5459848.cms

There's also a rumor that that the date was a typo (2350 vs 2035). Granted, even 2350 is worrying and we should be certainly doing something about it. But this kind of hyperbole, doesn't do much to the credibility of climate "scientists".

If you're using a tool, you're no longer "remembering" :-)

I have the B202 Linux version running Ubuntu as my media PC. Newegg has this for $299 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220012&cm_re=eee_box-_-83-220-012-_-Product). I am pretty happy with it as a media device. Super quite and under 20W average power usage (http://event.asus.com/eeepc/microsites/eeebox/en/features-green.html). It doesn't do 1080p but (there's a new EB1006 that does). It's not useful as a home server (only 160GB of built-in hard disk). It does have 4 USB ports, so external USB disks is an option (but that will add to the power usage).

I count my esoteric collection of PDAs and laptops as my toys. These include (in chronological order as far as I can remember) - a Spectrum Plus, a Handspring, a Treo 180, two Treo 90s, a Sony Clie, a Treo 600, a Treo 650, a Sharp Zaurus SL6000, a Nokia N800, an Acer Apsire One, an Eeebox, a Thinkpad X61s and lately a Nokia E63 mobile phone. Obviously not all of them are in working order :-).

I guess I am one of the unlucky folks out there. I have Vista on a Thinkpad X61. No crashes really, but a really peculiar problem. Every few days it will apply patches and reboot. A long, long time to apply the patches and reboot. I login, then a black screen (no BSOD) with a cursor for hours. Tired of waiting, I come back later to see my screen locked. Login again, same black screen. Reboot the box, boot in safe mode, login. Shutdown and restart in normal mode and everything is fine. I've googled for this for hours without any solution. This happens every few days, why Vista has to reboot for every other patch it applies I have no clue - Vista is slow but almost bearable without the reboots.

"Ready for the desktop" my ass:

Hope the rest of your gets ready too :-).

Nice try. I have Vista running on two laptops - one with 1.5G of RAM and the other with 2G of RAM. I've had a miserable experience on both. Vista is slow to boot, slow to copy files, slower to connect to a wireless network - you name it it's performance is poor. Luckily, I have bought personal copies of WinXP before MS stopped selling it in retail for both laptops. One of these days frustration will reach a level when I'll wipe out the miserable Vista "experience" and replace it with WinXP.

I think Perl blew it by the inordinate amount of time Perl 6 is taking. I am surprised nobody mentions this. Pythona and Ruby on the other hand have good roadmaps (especially Python). They make releases like clockwork, they're always in the news about new frameworks and some cool stuff. Perl usually is in the news for the wrong reasons, mainly about why Perl 6 is so delayed. Perl has simply lost mindshare. Oh, I know Perl has not really stagnated. Perl 5.x series has been making steady progress but that only appeals to people who're already using Perl. For newer people taking up a scripting language, Perl seems like it's past it's prime. Besides, let's admit it - the language is arcane; especially the OO stuff in Perl 5. I even find OO interfaces in perl modules unintuitive. If someone likes Perl and wants something more "clean", modern and shiny, I'd recommend Ruby though I personally prefer Python.

Don't mistake me. I was (and still am) a big fan of Perl - mainly Perl 4 though. It's one of the most powerful languages that I've used. Even today, I usually start writing something in shell (because I am throwing together a bunch of programs to get my job done). Then I hit the limitations in shell and usually port the program to perl. That said, I have mostly switched to Python, especially when I am starting to write something from scratch.