Archive For January, 2003
Microsoft Ireland confirms job cuts Microsoft Ireland on Tuesday confirmed that about 55 staff would be made redundant, as 113 positions move to locations outside Ireland.
Karlin has more on the Young Scientist winner. The person I spoke to said that as he understands it, the browser gets the claimed speed efficiencies by starting to download info to one socket. Adnan’s browser then “short-circuits” the socket or breaks that connection and starts downloading other bits of a page, “using fast servers.” [...]
Todd suddenly feels old “That’s a Commodore 64!”, I shouted. To which my younger house guests looked at me with bewilderment. “A what?” “A Commodore 64. I used to own one. It was a great computer.”
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Music (Happy Birthday, We’ll Sue) “Happy Birthday to You” is by far the most well-known song in the English-speaking world, and perhaps the whole world, too. For nearly a century, this simple ditty has been the traditional piece of music sung to millions of birthday celebrants every year — everyone from [...]
Slashdot | Disney Wins, Eldred (and everyone else) Loses The upshot is that no works produced in the United States after the 1920′s will ever go out of copyright.
Linux: Using goto In Kernel Code – KernelTrap – worth reading! > However, I have always been taught, and have always believed that> “goto”s are inherently evil. They are the creators of spaghetti code No, you’ve been brainwashed by CS people who thought that Niklaus Wirth actually knew what he was talking about. He didn’t. [...]
