I was in a small, regional Tesco (UK market chain) just the other day, and there were plenty of flavours of Oreos there. Perhaps not quite so many as I might find in the US, but certainly more than just plain vanilla.

On the other hand, I don't much like the other flavours, so plain is just fine with me.

I mentally read it 'plus plus variable', but I'm thinking 'increment variable'. This is similar to how I will mentally sound out the letters 'ICBM', but I'll be thinking 'weapon' or 'missile'. It's also somewhat similar to when I see the words 'Federal Communications Commission' written out, I mentally reformat that to 'FCC', then mentally associate that with a larger gestalt knowledge of what they do.

The nomenclature of how one sounds out what one reads doesn't necessarily equate to how the next layer down in the thought process is representing the concepts.

I learned it as Salt, Sugar, Caffeine, and Alcohol...making Irish Coffee Margaritas the perfect food.

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.

Sounds like going back to the days of infrared communications on phones. I'm not sure how this is better or worse than QR codes, except perhaps that you can cram more data into the stream.

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 think it's even worse when they're disallowing physical media. I specifically purchased a game for my son (Portal) so that when he was finished playing it, I could uninstall it from his computer and install it on mine so I could play. But, even though it was purchased at a store (Wal-Mart, Target, something like that), and it came on a physical disc, uninstalling it from his computer is not enough. It's already been registered and locked to his Steam account, and after several communications with Valve, they refuse to disassociate it from his account.

If it was just a download, then I could sort of, kind of see the restriction. But purchasing a physical object, like a book or a DVD or a CD-ROM, should allow one to disassociate the application from one account and sell it on to the next person to associate with their account.

How about $6,000,000? "Steve Austin, a man barely alive..."

Locked into a time machine travelling forward at a decent enough clip that I'd get to watch the universe evolve sufficiently before starving to death. Assume an adequate air supply. Travelling backward to watch the Big Bang would also suffice.

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).

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.)