Comment Re:"universally" *koff koff* (Score 1) 132
On the other hand, I don't much like the other flavours, so plain is just fine with me.
Nitpick: The C standard is published by ISO; ANSI adopts each new version as it comes out.
All three editions of the ISO C standard (1990, 1999, and 2011) permit main to have an implementation-defined type.
Only "int main(void)" and "int main(int argc, char *argv[])" (or equivalent) are required to be supported by all C implementations -- and that applies only to hosted implementations. For freestanding implementations, the program entry point is entirely implementation-defined.
In the original episode "Metamorphosis", it wasn't clear where Cochrane was originally from. He could have been a humanoid native of a planet in the the Alpha Centauri system (at the time I thought "Zefram Cochrane" was a sufficiently exotic name that he could have been non-human). Or, more likely, he could have been born in a colony established by sublight ships; we know from "Space Seed" that there were sublight sleeper ships before the invention of warp drive.
Annoying quibble: Kirk's line was "Zefram Cochrane? Of Alpha Centauri?" (The "of" might have a subtly different implication than "from".)
I'd bet $100 that the US and others have done it before.
How about $6,000,000? "Steve Austin, a man barely alive..."
Why do so many people object so vehemently to the question?
I personally don't have much trouble with the difference between calculator and telephone keypads; I can switch between them without much mental effort. (I can also switch between vi and emacs, and between bash and tcsh.)
But on every system I use, one of the first things I do is figure out how to remap the caps-lock key so it acts as a control key. In decades of effort, I've never gotten used to having the control key in a position other than immediately to the left of 'A'. If it works for most people, that's terrific, but it doesn't work for me.
But the OP does have a problem with it. The "destroys muscle- and spatial- memory" part seems exaggerated, but it may well be accurate *for the person asking the question*.
Different people have different mental models and usage patterns. Devices and software are supposed to be designed for users, not the other way around.
It's not a stupid question at all.
So it's not a problem *for you*. So what? It's obviously a problem for the OP.
Two is not an issue; there's no way to reply to these broadcast messages (at least not directly).
No these are far too easy. Want we want are SECRET QUESTIONS, not answers.
Mine is, "The answer is 42. What is the question?".
41?
Obviously it stands for "Shut Your Frakking Yap".
I encourage everyone to spread this idea. (Thanks to my brother who came up with it.)
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries