... so just pick one and stick to it.

I'm partial to "input" and "output" myself, from the perspective of the object using them (so a client's output goes to the server's input and vice-versa).

If you need to reference both objects' streams at the same time, you've got "myInput", "myOutput", "hisInput", and "hisOutput" for clarity.

Or just pick something fun; "spinwise" and "widdershins" isn't bad, but may confuse your users.

I was basing it on the average atomic weight of each element, in the first periodic table that came up on Google. It's been a while since my last chemistry class (11 years, I think), so I may have gotten it wrong.

But it looked like, since they said there were no radioactive byproducts of the reaction, that they were talking about the most stable (and therefore common) isotopes of each. Therefore, Ni-58 and Cu-63, resulting in an atomic weight difference of 5, which means they need to create 4 neutrons out of thin air.

But, like I said, high-school chemistry was a while ago.

I'm curious how they can get more energy out than they put in, at the same time as getting more MASS out than they put in. Copper is more than just a proton heavier than Nickel (63au vs 56au, I think). Conservation of energy/mass, anyone? Hydrogen+hydrogen fusion produces energy because the resulting helium is lighter than the inputs, and E=mc^2.

I was very disappointed to see that it was a misspelling of "learn" instead of "leer." I was quite curious how a computer could leer from the Net...

If you write your own, you may not want to include propagation beyond any single machine. No risk of getting out that way. Just make it tricky for a user to remove, to show the various techniques that may be needed (hiding in multiple places, being started from registry keys and other locations, running multiple processes that each monitor the others so it's tough to kill them all, ...). Good luck, and ask for permission before doing it!

Umm... It IS executable. It prints "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!" to the console when run as a COM program. It's just been added to the virus definitions of every piece of antivirus software to allow for simple, risk-free testing.

Well put. Anyone got some spare mod points? Parent could use a few.

Well put, I'll agree with that.

However, he did not prove that Dvorak was an inferior layout, only that nobody has done a proper study in the 80 years since it was invented.

By not showing it to be an inferior layout, he cannot prove his own point that the market always chooses the best product.

He referenced many old studies, but did not conduct his own. Every one of those old studies was biased in one way or another.

The few studies that he presents as unbiased, which found for QWERTY or for a tie, involved retraining typists, which is definitely a bias of some kind.

Nobody seems to have performed a study involving teaching first-time typists to see how long it takes to get to X WPM, or to see how fast they get after Y hours of training. That would be my definition of an unbiased study.

Of course, at this point, it'd be pretty tough to find someone who has never typed on anything before...