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Why not 64 bit apps?

What’s the bit arrangement for 32 bit Float Signaling NaN? And do all laptops honor it? Or just x86

Once upon a time I had an original iPhone and a router that did nor have ipv6, but the App Store worked. So I don’t understand your "ipv4 addresses can’t be reached" part.

Why not send these books to Google to convert before burning them?

I bought a book a long time ago that appears to have been printed on a standard IBM 1401 line printer. Title Compiler construction for digital computers Author David Gries Edition …

I wrote my thesis in 1976 on IBM punch cards. I hired a typist to add the equations.

Do you need a comma in your statement?

The Intel 8088 has an 8 bit bus, and 8 bit registers. The size of an integer is 16 bits.

The first fax machine was made using synchronized pendulums and large pieces of paper with black and white rectangles.

$1,000 is way too low - any lobbyist has more than that in his pants for "walking around money." They spend more than that taking a Govt. Official to lunch.

I am a non dev. I just tried the recipe provided by leobelle using the files provided in gist.github and it works fine. I had to change "matches" to use " " though. ---------------…

In my city they always send both an ambulance and a fire truck when an ambulance is requested. Perhaps they think that the caller may have forgot something and they could always us…

Of course there are laws against some of those things, with (probably) exemptions if there are fewer than X employees. One place told me "we are not hiring employees now, but we ca…

Univ Illinois has something on QMC already. http://code.google.com/p/qmcpack/

I had 12 years experience after graduation with MS degree. They asked how much I make now, I said I didn't want to say. They asked how much I want, I said that I had an offer of $x…

Niklaus E. Wirth, Per Brinch Hansen, and Donald E. Knuth

"GRAVITY", by Brian Clegg How the weakest force in the universe shaped our lives. It has some very interesting tidbits from the old days. Author of "THE GOD EFFECT" and "BEFORE THE…

courier

From the view of some consumers (I might be one,) a car may be considered to be a black box that is used to transport someone/something(s) from point A to point B. I do not automat…

It seems to me that the foreman misrepresented his memory of what happened with his own patent as fact to the other jurors to be applied to the current case; and he got some stuff …

I read somewhere that Apple uses hard links to directories for time machine.

One time I took a job at the offered salary. I was contacted by another company I had done some part time work for and they offered me a full time job at a considerably higher sala…