Posts by furt1v3ly 5 publicly visible posts • joined 8 May 2012
You can't pile up that much coal near a plant. Google "Spontaneous Coal Fire" and "Coal Stockpile Fires". Even skipping over the fire isse, if you leave coal out long enough it oxidizes and weathers; bad stuff leaches out, nasty gasses are emitted, and the coal swells with water and becomes less efficient to burn. Plants in the US keep at most a few days available to lower their risk and keep their efficiency up.
Didn't read the actual article before ranting, I guess... Because you clearly missed the "fork from WebKit" bit. This isn't a new, untried made by Google. It is WebKit with the increasingly huge patch-set that Google has been maintaining for the past couple of years applied permanently on a new fork.
What we need for your IT nerds to step up to the plate and have it detect what country I'm in and give me the units that I want. And if you can work out a nice preference system where I can choose from some choices when logged in so much the better:
[All SI]
[SI except for beer]
[Mostly Imperial]
[All Imperial]
[Elephants, Furl/Forts, and such]
It seems to me that back when Java was first being born, one of the biggest things that made it easy to adopt was how compatible with C and C++ it was. The first Java book I used just said "the operator precedence is exactly the same as C except for ..." and then had a short note about the differences. I had to dig out my C book more than once to get Java for exactly that reason.
If Oracle wins, does the C working group have a legitimate claim against Java on the exact same grounds that Oracle is using here?
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