with python, you have a point, yes, but C is about as high-level as rotterdam.

the wonderful jason kinkelly, ladies and gentleman! let's link him a nice warm round of PageRank!

when he came to the part about the operator being "temporarily or permanently physically, mentally, or morally incapacitated", milk was spurting out of my nose; even though i never drink any milk.

maciej ceglowski has put up a manifesto that is definitely worth reading there.

But before you jump on the audioblogging bandwagon, remember this - the power of the Web is the power to choose. You make your own trails, and
your own links. You read what you like and skip the boring bits. And audioblogging takes that power of choice away. Your listeners become a passive audience - they have no power to skim, they can't skip the boring parts, they can't link or excerpt your post effectively. Your post becomes invisible to Google and other search engines. And anyone who has a hearing problem, or a dialup account, or doesn't speak your language too well, anyone who is trying to surf your site from the office, or from an Internet cafe - well, they're just plain out of luck.

"Being in the software development business for 35 years, did inventing new programs become routine for you?"

oh, it sits right there, in front of me. it talks to me. it says, "you can't afford me, you pathetic loser." but i say, "you cost over two grand, yet only have a quarter gig of RAM. now who's pathetic?"

he doubted that this lake hidden beneath 19 meters of ice really is a completely separate ecosystem. he said mars, europa, eroticon six, those would be completely independent. but i said we can't actually know that. perhaps the very same entities from the future who came back in time to eroticon six in order to mine the excess heat energy generated by the tourists coming to see the triple breasted whore also wioll haven retro-be mining mars to get ... err, on-forewhen pregetting ice-cubes for their gargle blasters.

would they really make use of such crude euphemisms? would they actually implement digital restrictions management and only say it's 'digital rights management'? well, consider this: what does 'regional coding enhancement' stand for, what would you think? it means a dvd is 'enhanced' so it doesn't play in region-free or multi-region players. which is, like, wow, what a great feature! think of all the value it adds to the product!