Heat hopefully won't be an issue. Let's hope heat output scales at least somewhat with component size that is 98% smaller.

And why would it do that? A given voltage drop multiplied by the current through it equates to a certain wattage of heat dissipation, regardless of the size of the package.

^^ This. As an ex printer, a thousand times this.

You have no business sending me CMYK images. I decide on the CMYK formula to use based on my press specs (which I sent you but you never read) and your ICC profile + RGB image.

I might need to print your image on two different presses with two different dotgains (o hai there username), which would necessitate two different CMYK files from you in this case.

They have to teach IPv4, it's still under heavy use. Cisco CCIE used to test on Token Ring and FDDI for a few hundred years after they'd been long dead too.

Perhaps you meant /dev/zero. Reads from /dev/null return no data.

Bah, I'll take 'long long long long int' over that any day.

Certainly, what you say is true. Your response is well reasoned, and I appreciate that. I never said Perl itself was easy to learn, and I've only got one nitpick:

C++, by its use of namespaces, avoids things like std::vector, std::string etc. being 'reserved words', but that doesn't change the fact that they're there to learn. Yes, Perl has a large number or reserved words compared to C et. al. but I've never felt that these are what makes Perl hard to learn.

When I began learning C++ I initially felt it was easy to learn - only because I didn't realise how much of it I had yet to face. In reality it's actually a long road to becoming a good C++ programmer - equally true of Perl. I think my biggest disadvantage was learning C and becoming quite proficient in it long before I learned C++. I never did find a C++ book that starts out with "Okay, so you already know C, here are all the C things you need to forget about"

I don't mean to criticise C++ at all (you won't have any trouble finding people who've gone to great lengths to do so) but I maintain that learning it well is not "easy" by any means.

Languages which are simple to learn (c++, for example)

WHAT?

It's worth noting that Larry Wall won the IOCCC - twice. (I don't say this to support the GP's remark, more to attest to Larry Wall's awesomeness)

Your friend should look into revision control software and possibly getting the cat his own terminal. This way the cat's contributions can be easily tracked.

Microsoft were not as flagrantly greedy and evil then as Apple are now.

I've seen countdown timers on [...] some pedestrian crossings in [...] NZ, they are quite effective. No they're not. NZ pedestrians do not give a fuck, and are as good as cattle on the road.

It's an exploit of a loophole in /. moderation. Funny mods provide no 'karma'. The basic idea is mod the post up funny, and back down overrated. This can repeat without end with enough moderators, and the poster goes to full negative karma for just one post.

It seems the results of the 2009 contest weren't even announced, which is a pity.

After that post, I really don't think you've got any justification to be talking about what "any fool can see" in your .sig. You really have no comprehension of what this even about.

He also used to be a little boy who threw a pebble through my lounge window. Rascal!