Comment one trillion grains of sand are... (Score 1) 213
By my calculations about 10 million kilograms. Hardly a small patch of beach.
Comment Re:Sorry, no Segmented Stacks (Score 1) 130
All this engineering mubmo jumbo about segemented stacks is for weenies. Languages Features are the most important part of a language, how it runs isn't important anymore.
Yeah, and all this talk about automated memory management (garbage collection) and array bounds checking is for weenies too.
Seriously, safety from stack overflow is a language feature, just like reliable tail recursion.
Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org 124
Micahel West writes "As reported on OpenOffice.org: 'For an undisclosed sum but reputed to be in the billions, Microsoft's Bill Gates has personally bought the leading open-source desktop project. Saying he "was sick and tired of open-source eating away at his profits," the world's richest man decided to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy OpenOffice.org. It will form part of a growing list of Microsoft acquisitions including several erstwhile competitors, a considerable number of prominent politicians, and a few small governments.'"
Comment Re:Is Java falling behind? (Score 1) 386
Java's developed at a glacial pace in comparison to C#? Um. Have you noticed that C# doesn't have generics yet ("planned for Whidbey") and yet Java has had them for about a year?
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