[quote user="morbiuswilters"]Jesus, I hate comments like that. It makes me want to punch someone.[/quote] You need something with more authority than a mere fist. I, as usual, recommend pulling the GAU-8 out of your back pocket and using that in some way.

"heavy duty production servers, each with 16-3.2GHz cores" Um, no. With 16 cores, they are no heavy duty. I worked for a while at ((large financial information provider)), and we had production servers with 192 cores.

All this talk of SPSS and Java threw me for a moment, until I remembered that I haven't needed to keep up... SPSS is nearly as old as me, and I have colleagues young enough to be my children and old enough to not be students anymore. SPSS certainly wasn't in Java when it was first released, in 1968... How time flies when you're ...

[quote user="RichP"] Has he receieved his bear trap and tourist map of the pentagon yet?    [/quote] Yes, I've read http://xkcd.com/576/ too...

[quote user="dcardani"][quote user="PJH"]Using memset() to 'zero' floats... is not well-defined.[/quote] Really? Is this a platform specific thing? IEEE floats represent 0 as all 0 bits, don't they? When is memsetting it to 0 not OK? (Or do you mean in the case of non-IEEE compliant ...

I can tell one important thing about SomeClass. There is no virtual inheritance involved anywhere in it, because that requires invisible pointers (or offsets, meh) inside the virtual parents so that they can find the shared virtual base. And the other thing is that there aren't any virtual functions, because the memset would destroy the ...

[quote user="Cassidy"] [quote user="Steve The Cynic"] Still, it's the only email system where I've ever received a multi-line email written entirely in the subject field. [/quote]  Peculiarly, many of the staff at my workplace think it's perfectly fine to fill the subject line with a long announcement, ...

[quote user="El_Heffe"] [quote user="topspin"][quote user="El_Heffe"][quote user="I Hate Lotus Notes"]Which would you rather use?M$ Outlook (49%, 7,524 Votes)Thunderbird (21%, 3,238 Votes)Lotus Notes (19%, 2,982 Votes)[/quote] [/quote] You put the emphasis on the wrong line. Or haven't ever used ...

It's strange... I saw SDLC and my first thought was Synchronous Data Link Control, and the rest of the post confused me a great deal.

 [quote user="BlueKnot"]It's possible that the USPS passed it on to another iternational or European carrier and they are not providing status back to the USPS tracking system. The last update USPS has is just before it left their control.[/quote] Yes, but David said that it shows as having arrived in LA, but not having been ...