F! I cried seeing those pictures. The silent victims.
This whole thing is starting to mess with me.
F! I cried seeing those pictures. The silent victims.
This whole thing is starting to mess with me.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
I'm not immature, I'm refined in the opposite direction.
The estimate of $23 billion for the cleanup bill sounds huge. But given their profit of nearly $17 billion last year, the clean-up charge is just 16 months worth of profits. How many years has BP's execs been buying 50-foot yachts? It doesn't sound like such a hardship to cough up some of that profit.
Another way of looking at it - their enormous profit is another word for consumers overpaying at the pumps. So yes, as consumers, we've already paid for the massive cleanup and then some. But we all know what will happen next. Gasoline prices will rise to "cover the costs", they'll tell us. Because the executives won't downsize from 50 to 30 foot yachts.
Last edited by nonoob; 06-09-2010 at 11:47 AM.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge