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as then Eclipse was slow and buggy, because of, amongst things, migration to Vista/Win7.Eh, what? I always had the impression it was slow due to being Java based.-Ath (October 13, 2011, 02:01 PM)
What a book, what a language, what an age.A book that is still relevant today, IMHO.-mouser (October 13, 2011, 09:14 AM)
) following Bulldozer stuff for a while) - seems like it's pretty darn lackluster.The Acrophobia entry says "Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights." Fearing this is not irrational. More likely this is a test for insanity.Spot on the sugar!-capitalH (October 12, 2011, 04:41 AM)
I had to turn this off half way through because I started to feel nervous and queasy.I forced myself to sit through it. Ugh. I would die of terror if I attempted anything like that :-O-mouser (October 11, 2011, 06:21 AM)
Well, not as sluggish as in firefox, but sluggish compared to "come on, this is a fscking 2.4GHz quadcore" - probably around ~250-500ms for a pageflip, but at a consistent speed and low CPU usage all the way through.In IE9 it's consistently sluggish all the way through, but the rendering is messed up. WebApps, gotta love 'em.Strange, I tried just steadily clicking (in IE9) and it bounced right along right up to slide 120 (where I stopped) in maybe 20-30 seconds tops. Wasn't really paying much attention to the rendering at that speed, but it seemed to be all there. *Shrug*-f0dder (October 10, 2011, 01:54 PM)-Stoic Joker (October 10, 2011, 05:32 PM)
Okay so we're well past the 3 day mark ... Shouldn't he be back by now??Is that the third coming... Or the fourth Reich?-Stoic Joker (October 10, 2011, 04:52 PM)
One doesn't rule out the other - it IS America, after all, isn't it?Scop? No way.... This is America! Why take all the fun out of waterboarding?Those advanced features have not been implemented in the current version of 40hz.Oh, it's not a feature you need to be upgraded with... it's a feature you temporarily install in your subject-40hz (October 10, 2011, 03:32 PM)-f0dder (October 10, 2011, 03:55 PM)-40hz (October 10, 2011, 04:01 PM)
Those advanced features have not been implemented in the current version of 40hz.Oh, it's not a feature you need to be upgraded with... it's a feature you temporarily install in your subject-40hz (October 10, 2011, 03:32 PM)
I wish they identified which compiler gives a warning about using an uninitialized variable only in an optimized build - that seems to be a poor behavior for a compiler. I'm not saying this doesn't happen, but I'd like to be aware of where it does.GCC-mwb1100 (October 10, 2011, 02:43 PM)
</troll>Addendum - proposed box art for Windows 8 leaked:Hehehehe, nice one
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-40hz (October 10, 2011, 12:58 PM)
But I do have a big problem with only receiving 70¢ for each buck I do make. GrinNo, that would be assuming the development tools are free - Microsoft is going to take the 30% Apple cut of everything sold on the windows market.
(Assuming you still need to buy the development tools like you did when .NET and Visual Studio ruled the roost. If the dev platform is offered for free, that would be a different story.)-40hz (October 10, 2011, 12:58 PM)
How come you use those two statements related in 1 message? Or did I misunderstand and are you now looking for a more powerful language than jscript?Ummm, JavaScript actually is pretty darn powerful (if also pretty quirky and imho not super suitable for everything) as a language - just because you normally only see it in webbrowsers with a limited standard library doesn't mean the language itself isn't powerful-Ath (October 10, 2011, 01:36 AM)
Oh she annoys me so much... but some of that might be because she has pointed out stuff I missed.
-Eóin (October 10, 2011, 01:50 PM)
- I'm a bit more than halfway now, and she hasn't brought something up I didn't knew (but I do admit I'm rusty on the finer points of sequencing points) - on the other hand, I wouldn't have answered simple questions with such detail.What may ultimately be Steve Jobs' most enduring contribution to the world of computing was his coming up with a business model that completely destroyed everything open standards had achieved (and hoped to accomplish in the future) once all the major corporations started copying it.But... But! Jobs was all about freedom of choice! And thinking differently!-40hz (October 08, 2011, 08:12 AM)
I can't post what I really think because it's simply... ummm... not nice? Is that a good way to phrase it?Profiting by destroying other people's lives should effectively have you declassified from "human being" to "filthy organism that should be eradicated with extreme & painful prejudice". I think that's the most moderate way I can phrase it.-Renegade (October 08, 2011, 12:51 PM)
FIREFOX.. Y U NO BREAK??MY FIREFOX! THE UPDATES DO NOTHING!-nosh (October 08, 2011, 09:19 AM)
Yes! Fiber is better.I hate you now-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 06:06 PM)
Actually the worse part is it $20mo cheaper than the DSL ... Now how's that for totally screwed up?Like, REALLY hate you-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 07:10 PM)
Oh crap, this is yet another reason it's so liberating to run Linux: this issue never comes up, ever.Oh really? Lifetime updates one version of a distro? Or even lifetime for a distro?-zridling (October 07, 2011, 05:33 PM)
I have to disagree, it really is a good feature. If the program you are installing does not require admin rights, you can be sure, it won't install any adware, a virus or add an invisible service or firewall exception.All major OSes have local privilege escalation exploits. Installing to a place you shouldn't install to is plainly just stupid. I for one hope Microsoft will start enforcing "only execute from <sensible locations>" policies soon.-vlastimil (October 07, 2011, 12:36 PM)
I had to post this- Steve Jobs gets one last poke at Bill Gates:Yeah, because OS X has no security holes whatsoever. Nuh-uh. NONE. IT'S SUPER FAILPROOF!-wraith808 (October 06, 2011, 07:58 PM)
