"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" - Alan Perlis.

Well now, that's even better. Back then they didn't know what they were missing, hence blissful ignorance. When they started seeing all these new gadgets and toys come along, it was like a new world opened up to them! And for the go-getters, they could take advantage of the new market opportunities and cash in big time! Sounds good to me.

Actually, it would take 455,373 miles to break even between the Prius and the Fit. Between the Miata and Prius, your number is close (it is 535,249), but between the Miata and Fit, it should be 582,398 miles. Here are my calculations for comparison: http://www.relay2me.com/share/compare_cost.txt

You are quite right. I hate it when I want to order something next day and then realize that tomorrow is an "off" day. The more contiguous off days, the less advantage there is for expedited shipping. That is, the ratio of time spent en route to time spent in off days decreases to the point where next day delivery would become comparable to 5-day ground shipping. It still gets there four days quicker, but as the limit of off days approaches infinity, the four day advantage becomes increasingly negligible. It would be like waiting a year for a "next day" package to arrive, and saying, "oh, I only had to wait 365 days rather than 369 days". So you can begin to see that with more off days, you are effectively devaluing next day shipping. A crime against humanity, to be sure.

In short, I agree with your statement, and the guy above you is wrong, just plain wrong. If we are going to have another off day, it is far better to have it on such a day that the off days are as evenly spread out as possible. Consistency is usually best.

While you are correct that the best bet is to simply not use the department-issued device for personal texts, the lieutenant specifically stated that the text messages would not be audited. Then they changed their minds and started auditing them. He had a reasonable expectation of privacy, it would seem.

The oral argument at the Supreme Court hearing from both sides can be read here

Going from 5 to 4 is a reduction of 20%; 4 = 0.80 * 5. The only case where you would see 25% using these two numbers would be when going from 4 to 5, an increase of 25%.

I agree.

How about the iPhone G3?

Firefox detects the cycle and gives an appropriate error. IE just thinks the internet is down. And Opera manually fetches the redirect page so that the user can have fun with the cycle:

try it here

Hmm yes, let's create a tinyurl, A, to some host B, which redirects back to tinyurl A.

Actually, Mac OS 9 is very secure. Even the US Army still uses it for secure web hosting.

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