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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2006, 10:58:34 am »
Pretty nifty.

Out of curiosity, what is Gates position with Microsoft?...he own it or..

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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2006, 03:07:09 pm »
He was the CEO, but he's not anymore.  I think he's still on the board, and possibly still owns the majority of the shares.

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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2006, 06:58:46 pm »
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A short is 2 bytes, a long is 4 bytes, and an int is dependant on the system it's running on. 

Ew. I was thinking a long was a system DWORD, an int was a system WORD (I was right, woo!), and I a short was a system HWORD.
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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2006, 09:23:50 pm »
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A short is 2 bytes, a long is 4 bytes, and an int is dependant on the system it's running on. 

Ew. I was thinking a long was a system DWORD, an int was a system WORD (I was right, woo!), and I a short was a system HWORD.

What is a system HWORD?
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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2006, 09:33:10 pm »
Half word?
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2006, 01:02:39 pm »
Yeah, a halfword. 

Also keep in mind that Windows and some other OSes misuse the terms 'WORD' and 'DWORD', so they are, overall, pretty meaningless.  You're best off just using int8_t, int16_t, and int32_t, or whatever is defined on your system. 

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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #21 on: February 05, 2006, 01:21:18 pm »
He was the CEO, but he's not anymore.  I think he's still on the board, and possibly still owns the majority of the shares.

He's the CFO.
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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #22 on: February 05, 2006, 02:11:25 pm »
He's also the Chief Software Architect.

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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2006, 11:23:03 am »
Yeah, a halfword. 

Also keep in mind that Windows and some other OSes misuse the terms 'WORD' and 'DWORD', so they are, overall, pretty meaningless.  You're best off just using int8_t, int16_t, and int32_t, or whatever is defined on your system. 

So what do we do when we get to 64-bit computing as the standard?  What's a 16-bit value?  A QWORD (quarter word)?  We already have that, it's quad-word.

I've also never seen a "dh" command in assembly.
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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #24 on: February 06, 2006, 11:36:08 am »
Yeah, a halfword. 

Also keep in mind that Windows and some other OSes misuse the terms 'WORD' and 'DWORD', so they are, overall, pretty meaningless.  You're best off just using int8_t, int16_t, and int32_t, or whatever is defined on your system. 

So what do we do when we get to 64-bit computing as the standard?  What's a 16-bit value?  A QWORD (quarter word)?  We already have that, it's quad-word.

I've also never seen a "dh" command in assembly.

16 bits would either be a Quarter-WORD (they'd find a way to abbreviate it) or go unused or just be called a int16_t.  You don't really ever HAVE to use terms like "word" and "Dword" in programming, and it's generally a good idea not to, because they aren't consistant across platforms.  But because people incorrectly used them in many cases, they got stuck being unable to change it. 

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Re: ZOMG Bill Gates owns the IRS
« Reply #25 on: February 07, 2006, 07:14:11 pm »
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