Warp wrote:
>   Check the last parameter of this constructor:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ah41zs(VS.80).aspx
> 
>   Two major problems:
> 
> 1) A billionth of a second already has a well-established name: Nanosecond.
> 2) In reality that parameter represents microseconds.
> 
>   So yeah.
> 
Hmm. This explain why MS thinks that every OS they make is "faster", 
they are using something like the creationist argument that, "1,000 
years = 1 day", and applying it to computing time?

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally interacted 
> with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.

If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him for 
breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)

Seriously though, how big a sample of the USA population do you have?  How 
random was it?

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>> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
>> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally 
>> interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
> 
> If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him 
> for breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)


year on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string. 
And the director of IT is like "what, how do you send IP data using wet 
string? I'm not sure I understand". (Whereas any intellligent person can 
see that I obviously wasn't serious about that...)

> Seriously though, how big a sample of the USA population do you have?  
> How random was it?

Some of our employees are apparently very, very random people.

Different kind of random though... Not the good kind.

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>>> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
>>> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally 
>>> interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
>>
>> If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him for 
>> breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)
>

> on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string. And the 
> director of IT is like

I suspect that's more because he is DIRECTOR OF IT, and not because he is 
American.

Imagine picking 10 Directors of IT from 10 different countries, then picking 
10 completely random people from one country, which group is going to have 
the biggest variety?

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>> year on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string. 
>> And the director of IT is like
> 
> I suspect that's more because he is DIRECTOR OF IT, and not because he 
> is American.
> 
> Imagine picking 10 Directors of IT from 10 different countries, then 
> picking 10 completely random people from one country, which group is 
> going to have the biggest variety?

Well, I guess the only Americans I am forced to interact with happen to 
be in upper management, so maybe it's that upper management has no sense 
of humour...

(Certainly not a problem I've seen with management in the UK though.)

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